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...future, everybody is a wuss. Everybody drives wimpy electric cars, everyone talks all nicey-poo and nobody fights or has sex. Just the kind of place where Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes could both kick some serious...
...Wesley C. Rose and John M. Amao, both age 14, were waiting to watch a Cambridge Ringe and Latin football game in the park yesterday. Amao said he often goes there to play basketball...
...helps that Sean Connery, as a Japanophile detective who yet retains a few interesting Japanophobic tics, is the chief explainer. It also helps that lively Wesley Snipes is the younger man he's mentoring through this exercise. But it would be nice to see Connery doing something intrinsically interesting instead of trying to make something inherently dull entertaining. And it would be good to see Snipes cut loose more than he is able to here. But that's the way things go in this cautious adaptation of a "controversial" book. It makes you realize that Crichton's novel was largely...
Detective Webb Smith (Wesley Snipes), newly assigned to Japanese liaison duty, is teamed with an enigmatic veteran, John Conner (Sean Connery), who some say was forever unhinged by a long stay in Japan. The ensuing investigation is blocked by an array of law-thwarting tactics, including seduction, murder and high-tech video sabotage...
...Connery's protege, Wesley Snipes out-acts his distinguished partner. Defined to a far greater extent than Conner, Snipes' cop is impetuous but professional, fighting to keep his temper in a situation which continually heaps indignities...