Rising Sun
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex
14 July 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 November 1940, Oakland, California, USA
3 April 1962, Hollywood, California, USA
1 January 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York, USA
31 July 1962, Orlando, Florida, USA
18 November 1957, Los Angeles, California, USA
19 February 1963, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1933, Kobe, Japan
5 June 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2 January 1967, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
2 December 1954, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
19 June 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
22 September 1933, Fresno, California, USA
3 February 1973
7 October 1912, Missouri, USA
20 August 1947, Akron, Ohio, USA
20 October 1948, Gunma Prefecture, Japan
21 October 1959, Brooklyn, New York, USA
April 09, 2008
What 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.
October 18, 2008
As the plot grows more intricate, strangely the tension dissipates, until finally the movie just seems to run out of breath.
May 20, 2003
It directs attention not to the internal reasons for America's economic problems, but to inscrutable, generalized, unknown others from abroad, whose yellow skins and strange manners announce their evil purposes as much as their unfair trade practices.
April 09, 2008
aufman's heavy-handedness and a half-baked script with unfocused performances to match render this unentertaining, vacuous nonsense.
February 27, 2011
It never rises past a second-rate thriller.
November 05, 2008
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.
April 09, 2008
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.
January 02, 2009
Kaufman's film is flawed. but not as bad as critics claim-- charges of racism made this adaptation controversial even before it was seen.
May 13, 2007
Snipes at his coolest still can't save this xenophobic piece of studio flotsam.
June 24, 2006
Kaufman's PC adaptation falls awkwardly between the conventions of the Hollywood conspiracy thriller and something intended as more artily significant.
April 09, 2008
The film grafts a fiercely modernist feel onto characters and themes right out of a 1940s film noir--an impressive achievement that more than makes up for a ponderous storyline.
April 09, 2008
I found it pretty entertaining, as well as provocative in some of its comments about contemporary life.
