Black Rain (1989)

Awesome flick!!

There is nothing better than seeing Michael Douglas in trouble! That always makes for a good movie, but kidding aside great story and good acting on behalf of all the actors. July 14, 2008

black rain

i bought this blu-ray because i already own the dvd..i was amazed how much sharper the picture was ..and the sound is extremely clear and loud. a great movie to have on blu-ray!!!! March 1, 2008

Black Rain At Last

Black Rain at last a good quality transfer, Im sure it does not push the Blue Ray too its uppermost, but this is in my opinion a very underrated film. I think the film is just great and all the stars really make this film Douglas and Gracia really have a bound in this film, and Hans Zimmer
music is fantastic.. If you every come across the bootleg soundtrack of the film since the CD released does not come close to what was written for the film is really superb, what i really liked what's been missing from any other version I have of the film is the extras about the making of Black Rain.. A fantastic film A great buy and best of all god bless
the all region policy this film works on a UK player UNLESS Sony do a nasty with the firmware upgrade. February 24, 2008

NY cops in Japan - Cool!

I will spare you the plot details - tons about what happens has already been written. I'll just tell you if what happens, works. In this case... it does, and very successfully.

Put a couple of NYC cops, who are far from being your text-book, right-out of the academy-pristine cops (which seems about right for a couple of NYC detectives), and send them to Japan to deliver and then recover a really bad gangster.

This movie was made at the end of the 80's, but the settings, story line and dialogue is perfect even for 2008. It is an action movie that really has you interested in what is going on and makes you want to get the bad guy, right along with our hero cops.

The pace of the movie is done quite well and Ridley Scott leaves very little on the screen that was unnecessary - even the karaoke bar scene had it's place and was worthwhile. The sense and feel of the movie is very realistic and believable. The thugs scare you and the cops are out to get their man - no matter what. That's what we want in our cops vs. robber movie.

The side plots in this movie work well and never stray from the main action. The whole - is Michael Douglas's character a bad cop on the take, worked for me and I was interested. Kate Capshaw's character was well done and her screen time was good, which was edited enough so that you didn't feel they went overboard with her. The movie does a sweet job by not giving us too much info about the gangsters, and that works quite well for the pacing in the film.

Give Black Rain a look and it will be worth your time. You'll also understand why movie cops put tv cops to shame, for the most part. The Blu-Ray was clean and perfect-o. Exactly what we want out of our hi-def movies. February 18, 2008

Andy Garcia, not Adam Garcia!!!

I spent the past couple of minutes watching this, thinking that I was going to see the very cute guy - Adam Garcia - from Coyote Ugly. Anything's better than Michael Douglas with a very dodgy haircut. (Very dodgy - it's practically a mullet.) Unfortunately, they share the same surname and the same first initial, but Andy & Adam are two very different people. Both very cute though.

I have to say I'm not Michael Douglas's biggest fan (that would be my mother), but I don't spend every second of his screen time wishing he would go away. I'm not that bad. I can watch him.

The film is mindless entertainment, with an interesting title - I have to say I like the idea of black rain. It's a familiar story - bad guy cop, teamed up with reasonably good guy cop, after a bad guy, thrown into the wrong situation and having to struggle out of it. The wrong situation here is in Japan, where the American cops have no say so in what happens. They have to escort Yasuka Matsuda, playing Sato, (who died not long afterwards), and hand him over to Japanese police. Simple right? Not so. Police officer uniforms no doubt hired from the local fancy dress shop are worn, and Sato is handed straight into the hands of his friendly bad guys. Cue much hysteria when the real cops turn up. Oooops!

The film escalates from here, with rigid cop rules, and an unfamiliar place to try and get the bad guy back in the right hands. Unfortunately, Michael Douglas pretty much plays the same character he played in Basic Instinct, so he's uninteresting in that sense. Andy Garcia was not only refreshing, but probably should have got the lead role. Let what happened to him happen to Michael.

Other reviewers have said this cop movie is very eighties, and very cliched. Yes, that may be so, but have these reviewers watched Lethal Weapon recently? That is the number one eighties movie. But Mel's hair is worse.

Black Rain is surprisingly enough an entertaining movie, not really what I was expecting, but still excellent all the same. Prepare to shed a little tear at Michael behind a wire fence thing. November 30, 2007

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