Rising Sun (1993)

Rising Sun is a forgotten decent underrated mystery thriller based on Michael Crichton's novel and that a good one. It is definitely the best of Sean Connery and the best one of Wesley Snipes. I know a lot of people are asking me the questions how come I like this movie but I totally dislike Passenger 57 but I like this one. For starters Passenger 57 is so cheese peace a s***t of a film who only grab cash and copy on a bad way Die Hard 1 and 2. This movie I like a lot and it is Wesley Snipes best performance a long side Sean Connery. Those two actors did an excellent job. The only problem with the film I have it is way too long and has less action, they could have done a little better the choreography but the rest was good. Based on Michael Crichton's provocative bestseller "this smart engrossing and electrically charged" thriller is as entertaining as it is thought provoking. A special liaison officer (Snipes) is called in to investigate the murder of a call girl in the boardroom of a Japanese corporation. Accompanied by a detective (Connery) with unusual knowledge of the Japanese Culture the two men must unreval the mystery behind the murder by entering an underground "shadow world" of futuristic technology ancient ways and confusing loyalties.Also the cast includes Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, Tia Carrere, Ray Wise and Stan Shaw. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays mostly the bad guys in the movies in this movie he plays the good guy who is a framed for a murder of his estranged girlfriend he didn't commit. Mako plays Yoshida-san, the President of the Nakamoto Corporation. I really miss the actor he does such a good job playing the good guys like he was in The Perfect Weapon with Jeff Speakman. Sean Connery does an excellent job who plays A Scottish-born cultural liaison to the Japanese and a former Police Captain who is know with Japanese Culture and he worked there for years he knows Yoshida-san. This movie has so much Japanese Culture to tell with Sean Connery in it. Sean is so similar in the Japan that he played the character James Bond 007 in Japanese Culture in the movie You Only Live Twice (1967). Wesley Snipes does a better job playing Lt. Webster "Web" Smith LAPD police detective who also knows martial arts. In real life Wesley is real black belt in karate a martial artists. The movie is no were near classic cinema. But it does hold up pretty well some 24 years later. Connery is always perfect in every role he plays, and Wesley Snipes (at the beginning of his popularity) proves his acting chops going up against Connery and respectfully Harvey Kietel. The movie is played of as a old fashioned type film noir but doesn't quite make it. For it's time it was an interesting mind thriller. Today it's a basic who-done-it. To me this movie is one of my favorite Wesley Snipes films and that a good one, a lot Connery and Snipes complement each other as a "buddy" cop duo with Connery being mostly responsible for making this story interesting. The still-suave ex-James Bond plays the cool veteran and it's fun to watch him operate. The movie3 is so mystery it self who killed that call girl in the boardroom I always forget who was the killer and mostly why so good this movie to me is. This movie to me get's a B 7/10 but today no one talks about this film. Like it doesn't exist on YouTube no one mentions it so for me it is a forgotten but well great flick from Michael Crichton who also wrote a lot of good novels who are based on the good films: Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Congo, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, The 13th Warrior and Timeline.R.I.P. Michael Crichton who died in November 4, 2008 and Mako who died in July 21 2006 you two are really missed. I miss this kind off movies, they don't make'em like are this one today. I miss these movies I hate 2017 movies are not that good like are this one today. Rising Sun is a 1993 American crime film written and directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Sean Connery (who was also an executive producer), Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Michael Crichton and Michael Backes wrote the screenplay, based on Crichton's novel of the same name.7/10 Grade: B Studio: 20th Century Fox Starring: Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson, Mako, Tia Carrere, Ray Wise, Stan Shaw Director: Philip Kaufman Producer: Peter Kaufman Writter: Michael Crichton, Philip Kaufman, Michael Backes Based on Rising Sun by Michael Crichton Rated: R Running Time: 2 Hrs. 09 Mins. Budget: $35.000.000 Box Office: $107,198,790

I just have read the fantastic novel in a week and i'm glad our dad picked the movie adaptation ! This karaoke bar opening may be disastrous but i discovered that Crichton has worked on the screenplay. So the movie looks really like the novel but it's more easy to follow, more polished, and above all, it offers new scenes but also new facts about the case and the characters as well! I don't know if Crichton wrote originally with Sean in mind but he's perfect here, as the old wisdom cunning sage (even if it's Giorgio(s suit is awful). However, Snipes has nothing for him : he looks a Jar-Jar, not bright, good for kicks only and that wasn't the liaison agent i followed in the novel.

I'm a firm believer that book and film should be kept apart, especially if you're going to rate a movie; but sometimes the comparison is unavoidable. Crichton's "Rising Sun" isn't my favorite of his books, particularly because it's more doomsayer than novel. I get it, Japan's corporate practices on the world stage are underhanded and malicious, but couldn't it be couched in a better yarn? What I really did like about the novel was elder detective guiding the younger through the mysterious Japanese culture. Sean Connery's a great fit for this character; I had him in mind while reading it.But for the big screen version, this was all but stripped away in favor of a boiled-down mismatched cops flick. To that end, I do like the pairing of Connery and Snipes; and were they in a different movie, you'd have something. But their drama is in the service of a lifeless corporate whodunit. And there's a lot of talent peppered throughout the cast, and to see it wasted on something so dull is frustrating.There's one good scene in which Snipes uses a rough neighborhood to elude some East Asian bad guys. But the scene ends, and it's back to drudgery.5/10

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.