Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Cem Lamb This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

merklekranz Rosanna Arquette is Jason Robards daughter who possesses special powers to for tell future events. This leads to difficulties as she identifies the hit-man who carried out one of her predictions. There is a certain quality to this film that relates to the genuineness of Arquettes performance. Her followers come across as true believers, and what starts as a scam spirals into a very intriguing story. Tom Hulce's performance is no more than adequate, with zero sparks flying between him and the super sexy Arquette. Another negative would have to be Hulce's sometimes on, sometimes off Southern dialect, which detracts. Overall though this is a creative and entertaining film. - MERK

le_chiffre-1 This had the potential to be a good movie -- the basic premise, about a phoney medium who starts to experience real premonitions, was interesting, the actors were excellent, and the gloomy atmosphere of an economically-depressed rural South came through loud and clear -- but it just didn't go anywhere.The movie came off like more of a soapbox for the writer's leftist, secular humanist views than anything. For example, there's a scene in which the psychic starts telling an auditorium of blue-collar workers that if only they were to stop believing in God and the afterlife, they could start to build a better world here on earth. The problem with such propositions is that they don't square with reality. The further we've moved from religion, the baser we've become. Unlike the churchgoing villain of this film, real-life Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling was a fan of Richard Dawkins, not of the Bible. Becoming more honest with ourselves and each other by dispensing with our ideals (or, as the writer would probably see it, our hypocrisy) doesn't mean that the world will become a better place. Better a Henry Ford than a Gordon Gekko.Black Rainbow didn't spend enough time developing its characters to justify the frequently grandiose, overwrought, overly-intellectual dialogue. The story, which with a little more work would've resulted in a first-class supernatural thriller, was given a backseat to the incessant moralizing.Too bad Lee Ving wasn't cast as the hit man. That role would've fit him like a black glove! 6 out of 10 stars.

leslie_4_99 This movie has to be the worst movie I have ever suffered through! The storyline was hopeless, the accent of Hulce's was nothing but a joke and I would not watch this movie again for a million dollars. If this is the only kind of a moive Hulce can make I can see why he has given up acting!

ric-29 Black Rainbow is a low-budget mystery with supernatural overtones, a rare genre that I'm particularly fond of. The sound and the picture quality on the print I saw was not great but was certainly watchable. I really enjoyed the premise: a fake psychic starts actually prophesizing people's deaths -- both the why and how -- which makes her a target for a hit man. Arquette is pretty good in the role -- kind of a mystical and ethereal nymphomaniac and Robards is great as always. The plot meanders a bit and sometimes gets a little slow, but I still enjoyed it. The ending didn't really make a lot of sense to me -- maybe I missed something earlier in the movie -- but I was surprised by this ending and liked it even if though it didn't seem to be supported by the rest of the movie.