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WRITERS: PHILIP KAUFMAN, MICHAEL CRICHTON, MICHAEL BACKES...
This is smart stuff. For, finally, what is Rising Sun about but the careless ways in which cultural heritages and institutions are bartered in the international marketplace and the confusions that arise from this traffic? Just about everything that's worth thinking about in Michael Crichton's novel is wittily and efficiently set forth in this sequence...
Snipes' casting is among Kaufmann's more arch additions to Crichton's plot. A new racial dimension is added to the already racially charged brew. One of Rising Sun's insistences is that Japanese society is laced with ancient prejudice for minorities and a newer prejudice for lazy, stupid Americans. "Rising Sun" does not skirt Japanese prejudice but is always aware of the hypocrisy of Americans lecturing anyone on racism...
...position where he can gratify every craving for kinky sex, fast cars, and groovy karaoke, Eddie is appealingly unattached to anything but self-preservation. Tagawa's imposing frame and iron stare give Eddie a menacing lusty edge missing from Crichton's version...
...important senator. There's no question the senator is up to something after Wise's first goofy leer. Some unexpectedly intense eroticism seems thrown in to earn the film its thriller merit badge, but excellent, brooding camera work goes a lot further to keep our interest. The Crichton hit factory churns...