Dangerous Ground
by Darrell Roodt
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Actor: Elizabeth Hurley, Ice Cube, Ron Smerczak, Thokozani Nkosi, Wilson DunsterDirector: Darrell Roodt
Producer: Ice Cube
Producer: Darrell Roodt
Writer: Darrell Roodt
Producer: Gillian Gorfil
Producer: Helena Spring
Producer: Patricia Charbonnet
Writer: Greg Latter
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-23
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
DVD Reviews of Dangerous Ground
DVD Review: Reluctant to rate
Summary: 1 Stars
With much reluctance I give a poor rating to this movie. Granted the review comes more than 10 years after the movie was made, however I have only just seen this movie.
As an African it is a disappointment that a movie of this nature is made by African Americans (Ice Cube, Ving Raimes) about Africa. It betrays plenty of ignorance about the continent while promoting popular misconceptions about the people. For instance, the movie is full of four letter words and expletives - "f**k", "s**t", "motherf**r", "a**hole", etc. There are plenty of problems in Africa, as it is every where else, but this is not one of them. The people simply do not speak the same way as they do in San Francisco inner city. Neither is the gang and drug culture the same. Drug use is not a prevalent problem as depicted in the movie, although some countries may serve as a transit point in the drug trafficking trade.
Gangster gun violence, vice, shooting and death are prevalent in the movie. Addict drug lords snorting cocaine and shooting each other to a game of soccer. Art does not have to immitate life, but the problem with this movie is that it gives a wrong impression of life on the continent. It is simply not the same as in South-side Chicago. The movie ended with Ice Cube settling in South Africa after revenging his brother's murder. Mr. Ice Cube and co. may have been better served if they had hired a consultant who actually comes from and lives on the continent.
Description of Dangerous Ground
Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley in the tale of a South African freedom fighter who returns home after 14 years in exile for his father's funeral. Apartheid is over, but now the drug wars are destroying his people...and his brother is missing in action.An odd combination of consciousness-raising and run-of-the-mill action, Dangerous Ground features Ice Cube, mostly unbelievably, as a one-time South African native named Vusi. Vusi came to America at age 14 to escape police repression, and eventually reinvented himself as an American scholar and community-oriented volunteer. Called back to the old country to bury his father, Vusi discovers the new South Africa under Mandela, but also gets a snootful of the nation's surge in crime and drug usage. Sent to Johannesburg to retrieve a long-missing brother, Vusi allies himself with a coke-addicted stripper (Elizabeth Hurley) who knows the vanished man. The script and direction by Darrell James Roodt (Cry, the Beloved Country) seems to be serving various masters: viewers interested in epochal changes in South Africa, and viewers who want to kick back and watch a suspense movie about drugs, a hooker, and a nasty crime lord (Ving Rhames). The result is unwieldy, and Cube's thumping performance doesn't do much to bridge the gap. --Tom Keogh
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