aufman's heavy-handedness and a half-baked script with unfocused performances to match render this unentertaining, vacuous nonsense.
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04/09/08
Rising Sun (1993)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:12
Rotten:22
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: A Los Angeles special agent (Snipes) must team up with an expert on Japanese culture (Connery) to investigate the murder of a call-girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. The case turns... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Mako
Director: Philip Kaufman
Reviews for Rising Sun
Top CriticWhat should have been a tense political thrilling blockbuster, ends up a wasted effort with a limp storyline that once again fails to give the book justice.
04/09/08
Top CriticKaufman's PC adaptation falls awkwardly between the conventions of the Hollywood conspiracy thriller and something intended as more artily significant.
06/24/06
Top CriticA typical over-blown Hollywood production.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/23/04
Where the movie really stumbles is with co-writer/director Philip Kaufman's attempts to make it a conventional mystery-thriller. Kaufman simply doesn't have the slightest notion of how to make a conventional film of any kind.
01/01/00
Wildly improbable (read: typical Crichton) tale about a murder in a Japanese office building.
01/01/00
As the plot grows more intricate, strangely the tension dissipates, until finally the movie just seems to run out of breath.
10/18/08
A slick yet pedestrian thriller.
01/01/00
Kaufman's film is flawd but not as bad as some critics claim, though charges of racism made this adaptation controversial even before it was actually seen.
01/02/09
There are a few too many plot holes and logical errors. Rising Sun may be solidly-paced, but not all aspects of the production are as successful.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/15/02
A 1980s style film adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel.
12/23/04
For all the gloss and high-tech hardware, the mystery just fails to be intriguing.
01/01/00
The film disappoints, but Snipes and Connery don't.
12/28/04
It would be nice to see Connery doing something intrinsically interesting instead of trying to make something inherently dull entertaining. And it would be good to see Snipes cut loose more than he is able to here.
11/05/08
Top CriticSnipes at his coolest still can't save this xenophobic piece of studio flotsam.
05/13/07
The screenplay by Kaufman, Crichton and Michael Backes is not about much of anything important.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
07/25/02
When working in genre territory before, the idiosyncratic Kaufman has shown a marked tendency to debunk or subvert conventions. Playing it straight here, he brings little to the table.
04/09/08
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