Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition)
by Ridley Scott
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Actor: Andy Garcia, Kate Capshaw, Ken Takakura, Michael Douglas, Yusaku MatsudaDirector: Ridley Scott
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition)
DVD Review: Barefoot Gen grown up.
Summary: 4 Stars
I have yet to find a Ridley Scott film in which he doesn't beat the living snot out of commonly held irrational dislikes (like xenophobia, misogeny, and contempt for cops). This visually striking film takes fear, loathing and contempt for aliens/Philistines to new extremes of irony and complexity that utterly justify the incredibly ominous title. I've given it four stars because the multilayered ironies are only fully revealed through the commentary which is reinforced by the other special features.
His stereotypes spin totally counter to their vector, and the closer I watch his very financially-successful entertainments, there more art there is to see. That's not the way this stuff is supposed to work.
DVD Review: Black Rain - Blu-ray Info
Summary: 3 Stars
Version: U.S.A / Region A, B, C
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
MPEG-2 BD-50
Running time: 2:05:18
Movie size: 30,75 GB
Disc size: 35,00 GB
Average video bit rate: 27.23 Mbps
DTS-ES Audio English 1536 kbps 5.1-ES / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps
Dolby Digital EX Audio English 640 kbps 5.1-EX / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio French 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 640 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 640kbps
Dolby Digital Audio English 192 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 192kbps
Subtitles: English / English SDH / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 28
#Audio commentary by director Ridley Scott.
#Black Rain: The Script, The Cast - featurette (20M:23S)
#Black Rain: Making The Film: Featurettes (37m:55s)
#Black Rain: Post-Production - Featurette (12m:25s)
#Theatrical Trailer (HD - 2m:24s)
DVD Review: PRETTY DARN GOOD
Summary: 5 Stars
I rented this on tape years ago, and boy what a difference the blu-ray disc makes. Good picture, pretty good sound, lots of action and the relationship between Micheal and the Japanese "detective"? stole the show, especially the last two scenes. It was great.DVD Review: Directorial and cinematographic brilliance by Scott, with wonderful cross-cultural observations
Summary: 5 Stars
"Black Rain" provides a showcase for the directorial and cinematographic brilliance of Ridley Scott - whose love for the evocative nature of wet and shining surfaces owes more to Monet than to the fetishistic excesses of a photographer such as Helmut Newton. Gritty, wonderful "New York Cop" performance by Michael Douglas, matched by his partner Andy Garcia, with a perfect Japanese counterpart in Detective Masahira Masimoto of the Osaka Prefecture Police Department, played by Ken Takakura. Very nicely done cross-cultural references to the Japanese sense of group identity and loyalty, contrasted to the American ethos of "radical 'Cowboy' individualism." Lovely score by Hans Zimmer, looking forward to his work in "The Last Samurai."DVD Review: I love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite character is the villian (Yusaku Matsuda). His life story is very interesting. He did a great job in this film. It doesn't hurt that he is very attractive. A real bad boy!
Description of Black Rain (Special Collector's Edition)
Director Ridley Scott, who created two of Hollywood's most impactful and stylish adventure thrillers, Alien and Blade Runner, hits the mark again in Black Rain. Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas (Fatal Attraction, Wall Street) and Andy Garcia (Internal Affairs, The Untouchables) play New York cops whose job to escort a vicious assassin back to his native Japan leads the two Americans into Osaka's exotic underworld and straight into the center of a raging, brutal "Yakuza" gangland battle.A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get lost in the sheer indulgence of it. However, if you can buy Douglas as an iconoclastic lawman, you can buy anything else here, including the notion of Kate Capshaw as a blonde escort highly desired by Japanese businessmen. --Tom Keogh
A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Black Rain is a ridiculously entertaining thriller by Ridley Scott (Alien), starring Michael Douglas as a tough New York cop who--along with his partner (Andy Garcia)--goes to Japan to deliver a local mobster. When the latter escapes, Douglas's brand of gonzo crime fighting rubs his Japanese hosts the wrong way. Slick, mechanistic, and absurd, the film is all surface action and attitude (not to mention Scott's incredibly busy, trademark art direction); and one can get lost in the sheer indulgence of it. However, if you can buy Douglas as an iconoclastic lawman, you can buy anything else here, including the notion of Kate Capshaw as a blonde escort highly desired by Japanese businessmen. --Tom Keogh
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