Black Rain

The fact that the words "produced in association with Michael Douglas" appear on the credits before the name of the director (Ridley Scott) tells us much of what we need to know about this crime thriller. It is a project for and about Michael Douglas and it isn't very good. He ("Conklin") is a New ...

Well made neo-noir thriller featuring great performances by Douglas, Garcia and Takakura with special mention to Yûsaku Matsuda who worked on this despite dying with bladder cancer (and he was only 40 years old). Not top shelf work compared to other Ridley Scott movies but it is shot well (courtesy...

Black Rain is one of those cop movies that's just downright cool. Unfortunately, it became dated quite quickly, but if you can look past that it's very much worth a watch. Ridley Scott knows how to make a good movie. And Michael Douglas certainly knows how to act.

First things first: My review is detailed and long, but it contains NO MAJOR SPOILERS, you can still enjoy the plot unfolding after reading it. I think Black Rain (BR) is almost criminally underrated within the buddy cop and dramatic noir genre.reading it. The "underrated" moniker also ap...

"Black Rain" is in the overly familiar territory Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood used to inhabit during the 1970's and 1980's and as you would expect the old assortment of cliches are all here, especially those surrounding Michael Douglas's tough and uncompromising character Nick Conklin. The ve...