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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A lot of fun.

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I actually read the book before seeing the movie, I recall at the time (many years ago) that I didn't think Snipes fit the kohai role very well. Since then I can't recall the book much and I have acclimated more to Wesley. But the focus here is on Connery, in one of his truly superb roles as Captain John Connor on special assignment to the LA PD. Connery has spent years with and among the Japanese, and when a prostitute is murdered inside Japanese corporate offices in Los Angeles, Detective Snipes and Connery are on the job. The plot as it is isn't really very exceptional, what is extraordinary is Connery's interactions with Snipes, the Japanese and everyone else, along with the (for then) astounding technology, always a Crichton staple. I can just sit back and watch Connery in this role for forever. Highly recommended just on the strength of Connery alone.

I have not seen this since it was first releases when I was a teenager. I remembered liking it, and I have a soft spot for old Sean Connery so gave it another go when it was on TV.Plot In A Paragraph: During a party at the United States offices of a Japanese corporation, a woman is found dead, apparently after a violent sexual encounter. Police Detectives Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) and John Connor(Sean Connery), a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs, are sent to act as liaison between the Japanese and the investigating officer, Smith's former partner Tom Graham (Harvey Kietel).Whilst it was not as good as I remember Sean Connery does what you would expect of him in his mentor role, and he does it well. Wesley Snipes was a solid reliable actor in the early to mid nineties, and here is no exception. Whilst Harvey Keitel rarely disappoints and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa does a fine job as Eddie Sakamura, a powerful man who may or may not be mixed up in it all. I always enjoy seeing Mako on screen. Tia Carrere has a small role, while Steve Buscemi has a smaller one as the aptly named Willy 'the Weasel' Wilhelm.My one complaint was an unnecessary romance between Snipes and Carrere at the end of the movie.

Michael Crichton's novel about murder and merger serves as the basis for a fine thriller of a film. For Sean Connery fans they will be pleased with what Connery does in this film.Wesley Snipes plays a Los Angeles homicide detective who has it insisted to him that he bring retired police captain Connery along with him to solve a murder committed in one of those glass tower buildings owned by a Japanese firm. The book and the film were made at a time it seemed that the Japanese were acquiring a lot of things American and were beating us at our capitalist game. Connery is quite a lover of Japanese culture and tradition in addition to possessing a keen eye for subtle nuances. His presence proves to be invaluable.The murder is that of a high priced mistress and it looks like she was strangled during some rough sex. In fact the Japanese who have a very different attitude toward privacy and tape everything and everyone have the room under video surveillance. The tape they supply shows a US Senator Ray Wise doing the deed. A lovely piece of blackmail since his vote in the Senate is a key one to get.But Connery doesn't buy it and eventually the truth is learned.Both Connery and Snipes are manipulated to a first solution and then to a correct one. The subtleties of the Oriental mind.Rising Sun is an OK thriller. It certainly gets a bit paranoiac about the Japanese taking over the country. Fears about that certainly proved to be premature.Cary-Hiroyki Tagawa as an up and coming Japanese yuppie businessman who has the solution and is part of it should be singled out for praise. As well as Harvey Keitel playing a Philistine American cop who symbolizes the ugly American in his own country. Good thing he had Snipes and Connery along. I'm agreeing with a lot of other reviewers who think Steve Buscemi was totally wasted in a role that proved superfluous to the film and went nowhere. I'm betting in the book he had a more central purpose to the plot.Sean Connery's world wide legion of fans should enjoy this.

I basically watched this movie due to the fact that Toru Takemitsu for some reason got sucked into doing this ignorant film. If you have seen any of his work on Hiroshi Teshigahara's, Masaki Kobayashi's or Akira Kurosawa's films you know why I would be interested. From the opening credits I new this was going to be a train wreck when they decided to add Chinese gongs over Takemitsu's otherwise realistic Japanese style score, thus beginning the baffling ignorant betrayal of these Japanese people as sex crazed, backwards criminals whom only a westerner, well studied in Japanese culture can communicate with, as well as manipulate them like they were simpletons or something. I gather they even twisted Takemitsu's arm (who usually had a very minimalistic approach to scoring at key moments) into doing a continual Japanese score to remind us constantly that we are dealing with a mysterious and sinister culture here. Beyond this the acting is like what you would find in a a Jim Jarmusch film (ie: bad), and you can't help but feel sorry for Harvey Keitel who wouldn't be able to act badly if he tried, and Sean Connery and, well, the whole cast when you think about it, who are stuck with this director and script, both of which were not up to par with the ambition they were aiming for (I'm guessing intellectual thriller). Also, is it so hard to fly over some Japanese actors or find Japanese Americans for the parts instead of getting just any Asian? Bad accents galore! I must admit, I only watched about half an hour of it, but I can guess that it doesn't get any better later. Hell, I didn't really even care about the woman who was killed anyway.