KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

tbills2 Tatjana Patitz is the superhot naked model with Eddie Sakamura in the beginning left strangled on the company boardroom desk in one of movies' very best and most memorable introductory scenes to setup a story line. Tatjana's in the George Michael 'Freedom' video and one of the all-time sexy supermodels, if you didn't know. She has breathtaking Tatjanas, and the real killer pair of Patitz!Rising Sun is Wesley Snipes' (Blade from Blade) very best performance as well as one of Connery's (James Bond from James Bond) very best. They're on the lead in this all-time puzzle unraveling murder mystery with great acting from the deep supporting cast, Harvey Keitel (The Wolf from Pulp Fiction), Tia Carrere (Cassandra from Wayne's World), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat), Mako (The Wizard from Conan) and Buscemi (from Fargo and everything) and Alexandra Powers (from Dead Poets Society).Rising Sun has meaningful story progression that thoroughly develops the plot line. Pay close attention to its excellent keenly descript writing. The next generation video analysis is entirely enthralling stuff to watch for its time and even now.I can get up to rewatch Rising Sun time and time again as it offers a full array of emotions when viewing. It's one of my favorite movies and one of the underrated movies. I love Japanese culture!

bensonmum2 Rising Sun is basically a buddy-cop movie paring the unlikely duo of Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. In the movie, both are cops who have a working relationship with the local Asian-American community. So, when a murder occurs during a party at the Nakamoto Company's American headquarters, they are called in to help with the investigation.First, I'm not going to go into detail on the racial / racist aspects of the film that you can read about in other posts. I'll just limit my comments to this – making the baddies in this movie Japanese does not automatically make it a racist film. I've read a number of comments that seem to indicate that if you make a group (whether it's Asian, African-American, Jewish, or whatever) the bad guys, then you're a racist. If you believe in this argument, then I suppose the only safe group that can play the bad guys are white dudes. Just like good guys, bad guys should and do come from every imaginable race or ethnic group. I suppose the filmmakers could have done a better job of presenting more Asians in a positive light, but the movie was already bloated enough without cowing to PC drivel.Anyway, as for Rising Sun, overall I'm going to call it about average. The film has a few nice action sequences, enjoyable performances from Connery and Snipes, and a plot with enough twists and turns (even though the real killer's identity is as obvious as the hand in front of your face) to keep me reasonably interested throughout. I guess my favorite bits were (1) the way Tia Carerra uncovered the altered video (interesting) and (2) watching Snipes use his marital arts skills near the end of the film (awesome). Also, similar to his Bond film, You Only Live Twice, I got a real kick out of Connery's alleged expertise in all things Japanese. That may be the most racist part of the film, but Connery is so hysterical I can't help but be entertained (Note: I'm laughing at Connery – not Japanese customs or people). As for what didn't work for me, like the last film I wrote about, Rising Sun is horribly bloated. At over two hours in length, it overstays its welcome by about 30 minutes. There are so many things that could have been cut without really affecting the final film. Why is Steve Busciei even in the movie? Cut his scenes and save a few minutes there. Why do we need more than one scene explaining how to bow? Cut out the others and you've saved several more minutes. Why is so much time spent with Connery and Snipes jibber-jabbering about nothing? Cut some of that out and save even more minutes. There are dozens of other examples I could cite where, with judicious editing, the movie could have been trimmed to a lean 90 minutes.In the end, this is another of those cases where the good and the bad pretty much balance out. I'm left with rating Rising Sun a 5/10.

rzajac I'm choosing not to rate this flick, in part because I walked out after about 10 minutes. I think it's only fair.I went with my (then) wife to a movie theater to see it. The first 10 minutes were a cavalcade of cleverly deployed scenario work and imagery designed to make you hate/resent the Japanese, as a race.I'm reminded of a bit near the end of Mark Alan Stamaty's original "Washingtoons" book, where Senator Bob Forehead is talking with his wife, Ginger. He's by now completely immersed in and in thrall to Beltway-think, and he's haranguing Ginger about how he has to work so hard to stay abreast with the emotional-response demands of his job. He tells her that the Washington ideological collective hive-mind is constantly shifting... "For example: Do you hate Japan, yet?" he says. Ginger says, "No." "Damn it, woman! How do you expect to survive here if you can't keep up?!?!?!"From time to time, it really does appear that Hollywood plies its wares to serve zeitgeist production needs emanating from Washington. For example, I consider Top Gun to have been a flick that sought to normalize the view that having the most rarefied, highest-tech death machines is (for America) as natural and emotionally salubrious as a roll in the hay.The thing about Rising Sun is its almost artless obviousness: At least Top Gun wove a kind of myth--you could still see the propagandistic marionette strings, but if you closed your eyes and shook your head a couple of times and they'd obligingly disappear. The opening 10 minutes of Rising Sun is an almost textbook opportunity to study how the buttons get pushed to drive home an ideological message: "It's now time to hate the Japanese."I wanted none of this, so I walked out.>>> side note: I didn't realize it at the time, but my (now ex-)wife had implanted fears which could be triggered by filmed sexuality. She willingly joined me as I made for the door, but for a different reason; because the Jap-john/Anglo-hooker scene was heating up, and it was making her queasy. She didn't see any of the stuff I talk about, above. <<<

Mr-Fusion 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