Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

George Taylor Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia play cops sent to Japan to investigate counterfeiting. While there tragedy strikes and Douglas ends up unofficially helping a Japanese Detective - in a great move, they don't exactly become friends, but do learn respect for one another. The Yakuza villains aren't cookie cutter bad guys and are frightening.

SnoopyStyle NYPD detective Nick Conklin (Michael Douglas) is under internal affairs investigation. He and his partner Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) are monitoring the local mob when Yakuza members crash in. They arrest the Yakuza thug and transfer him back to Japan. They get tricked and the prisoner escape. They hunt for him with the help of local cop Masahiro (Ken Takakura) and American ex-pat Joyce (Kate Capshaw).Director Ridley Scott injects this with great energy and intensity. Douglas plays up the fish-out-of-water angle. It's great to get the Japanese flavor no matter how hard it was for Scott. It did come at a time of high fascination with Japan before their financial crash and that added a lot to the intensity. The present Japan no longer holds the same fascination and that does diminish the movie. However it was great at its time.

gavin6942 Two New York City cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he is extradited to Japan.I got this movie on accident. I was looking for "Black Rain", a 1989 Japanese film. Instead I got "Black Rain", a 1989 American film that happens to have Japan as a big part of the plot. Strange, and I am sure I am not the first one to make this mistake. But you really cannot complain when you get to check another Ridley Scott film off your list.This is a rather strong film for Michael Douglas. Not quite as strong as "Falling Down", but it does have some of his most vulgar and tough dialogue. The line "I usually get kissed before..." has become a small part of the popular culture.

benjiman-62487 I'm going to start by saying I'm one of the many people who did not particularly enjoy this movie. Id expect a lot of the clichés and so forth from a cop action/thriller film, but I really didn't expect it from from a director like Ridley. That said, I don't blame Ridley, he did the best he could with a weak script. And in fairness to him, the visuals and soundtrack are the only things that stop this from being a completely forgettable. The soundtrack alone is particularly good.I'm not going to write a synopsis, it's already been done by hundreds of other reviewers, and frankly it isn't worth another attempt. Save to say, it's a fish out of water cop film, starring hard nosed cop, streetwise girl, rookie partner and an evil gangster. Basically take any other cop film you have seen and change the setting to Japan. I noticed another review touting this as the "thinking mans cop film", which I found quite amusing as the storyline isn't exactly homers odyssey in terms of complexity. The acting is, at best, passable, but nothing overly attention grabbing. I'm not a great fan of Douglas, I find his acting a little contrived at the best of times, but his is probably the strongest performance, which isn't really saying a lot as his character is thoroughly unlikeable and you can't help but savour every bad thing that happens to him. The Japanese cast appear to be there purely for decorative purposes, and to enforce various stereotypes and tired clichés. The saddest thing about this film is the potential it had, and in the presence of a script that wasn't totally worn out and lacking in plausibility, it could have been something quite spectacular, instead of an aesthetically pleasing waste of time.