Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: Blu-ray Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0024543401179 Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 05, 2006 Running Time: 129 minutes Sales Rank: 30296 Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 1993
Product Description: A Los Angeles special liaison officer (Wesley Snipes) is called in to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective with unusual knowledge of the Japanese culture (Sean Connery) the two men must unravel the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground 'shadow world' of futuristic technology ancient ways and confusing loyalties.System Requirements:Running Time: 129Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 024543401179 Manufacturer No: 2240117
Amazon.com: Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for this film, based on Crichton's best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early '90s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new L.A. headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Intriguing if overlong. --Marshall Fine
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Rating: - Much Better Audio
This "Blu-ray" version is excellent. The video portion is much smoother and the audio is "far superior" to the regular DVD. One has to appreciate that this movie was initially released on VHS and the regular DVD of it was not much of an improvement. This blu-ray takes care of all the VHS flaws of the origional DVD release.
Rating: - The Blackmail of a Senator
Rising Sun concerns the struggle to win and at what expense. It's story begins with the news that Senator Morton will vote against the sale of Micro-Con to Nakamoto which effectively ends their negotiations with the company, Micro-Con, and allows them to look into another offer. Somebody is determined to change the Senator's mind by way of a blackmail scheme. Who was involved? Tanaka, the head of Security was running the office at the time of the party. Cheryl Austin, the murdered woman, was undoubtedly involved. She choose a place for sex with the Morton under a camera. Richmond was informed by Mr. N's aide at the party and killed her after she had finished. Who could have informed the aide but Tanaka. Wasn't somebody using the gizmo for close-ups? When Eddie left the party he went upstairs to check on the Senator and Cheryl. When he spotted them on the board room table under the camera did he conclude that Cheryl ... Read More
Rating: - One of Crichton's best novels becomes a below-par thriller
Rising Sun is a textbook example of how to take a sure-fire, can't lose property and cock it up completely. It's not just a matter of the producers controversially changing the nationality of the killer that makes Rising Sun such a appointment: where Michael Crichton's novel weaved a multi-stranded web, turning issues into clues and bombarding the reader with information and clues to keep you guessing, director Philip Kaufman simplifies and makes it all patently predictable. Subplots are poorly handled, often either never followed through or simply forgotten, and you don't even care that much about who done it, or why.
Of course, there is a difference between what makes a good book and what makes a good film, but before the rot set in Crichton didn't just write novels that read well, he wrote novels that play - turning one of his books into a film should be more a matter of editing than adapting. Yet, ... Read More
Rating: - Good but disappointing murder mystery
What works the best in Philip Kaufman's film version of the Michael Crichton novel is when we follow Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor (Sean Connery) as they chase both leads and suspects in the hopes of solving the murder of a beautiful American prostitute found dead on a boardroom table in a Japanese high rise presumably at the hands of the Japanese. Unfortunately the film gives us a lot more to try and solve which is why original script writers including Crichton and Michael Backes walked off the picture. They disapproved of the direction Kaufman was taking the film in and David Mamet was brought in to do an uncredited rewrite of the film. It is a fun game to try and figure out what is Mamet's contribution to the film in terms of colorful dialogue. There is one sure fire giveaway towards the end of the film when Web's boss the racist detective Graham (Harvey Keitel) starts referring to Web as "baby" a Mamet ... Read More
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