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Undescribable Perfection

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Film Review: "Black Rain" (1989)Here comes one of the ultimate action thrillers of the 1980s in crystal-clear, punch-lining 120-Minute-Final-Cut by editor Tom Rolf (1931-2014), who had received moody, stark to neo-film-noir visuals by one-and-only collaboration between director Ridley Scott and Jan De Bont, making his reputation shine as fully-competent as classic-to-innovative cinematographer, when R. Scott fights out of the corner in his cranking director's chair of the mid-1980s after two mixed-received features with fantasy spectacle "Legend" (1985) starring Tom Cruise and romantic thriller "Someone To Watch Over Me" (1987) starring Tom Berenger; coming out in this motion picture produced Sherry Lansing & Stanley R. Jaffe, known for another Michael Douglas film success "Fatal Attraction" (1987) directed by Adrian Lyne, when Ridely Scott plays his cards with high-focus directing as well as ancient to world-war-II-beating Japan in researched post-war developing underworld to an one of a kind thriller event movie from Fall 1989.In "Black Rain" is every film department in place with leading actor Michael Douglas as originally-written, down-on-his-luck New York City Cop detective Nick Conklin, who gets found by his new assignment by transferring Yakuza-uprising-criminal Sato, performed by late menacing as brilliantly-authentic actor Yusako Matsuda (1949-1989) to suspense accelerations of live-action-splendors with motorcycles chasing New York streets, Tokyo back alleys, handling on-ride samurai swords to mud-sprinkling cross trails of rural Japan to continuous twisting plot points and further supporting character conflicts, including deeply-atmospheric Japanese night club encounters between Michael Douglas and actress Kate Capshaw as Joyce, an American woman of 35 in exile; to cultural difference-battling new-partners with Tokyo cop Masahiro, performed by honors-indulging Ken Takakura (1931-2014) and Andy Garcia as reckless as lively New York buddy cop Charlie Vincent, all in favor for a well-written story-arc of Micheal Douglas' tight-gripping interpretations of Nick Conklin, making this standing-out action thriller an tremendous success for the matured hard-boiled-loving audiences with regards to the neighing 30th anniversary of "Black Rain" directed by Ridley Scott at age 51. © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

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.

How about, some vintage action film from late 80's by none other than Ridley Scott ? It has Yakuza, must be good! Right?1 minutes - and I already love the scenery, music and what I see... Ah, 80's and 90's, those were the times...2 minutes - oh... music is made by Hans Zimmer... that explains it 23 minutes - the action is decent and so far it is a pleasure to watch it 54 minutes - boring1h 55minutes - LOL at the final fight scene, this is badOh well, I don't know... I hate films which are not bad but far from good, and this is one of them. If you are really a fan of Michael Douglas or Ridley Scott, go ahead and try it. If not, you will miss nothing skipping this one.tgchan's rating: 6/10

What could be a more flattering gift to the world's second most prosperous nation than Nick Conklin? He rides a motorbike, awkwardly struggles to master using chopsticks, pronounces Sato as Sate-Oh, and instructs his veteran Japanese counterpart with lines like "sometimes you have to go for it!" Black Rain is one of the very few legitimate explanations foreigners have for being concerned about arrogance in America. Japanese are characterized as by-the-book squares who immediately allow impersonators to snatch someone on their most-wanted list right from under them. Luckily, two rough-mannered New York buddy detectives, one of whom later admits to being "crooked", help teach those Osaka keystone cops how it's done---American style!! I enjoyed the cinematography of Japan's bustling metropolitan scene and peaceful rural setting, but isn't that what the Travel Channel is for?