Sunday, January 18, 2009

Reel Geezers...Again...



We once rented the movie Black Rain during the winter holidays. Granma sat with us for about five minutes before she stood up and said "He's the most disgusting person I've ever seen." We couldn't stop laughing even though we felt guilty. I promised granma we'd rent a different kind of movie later. Black Rain has the amazing action actor Yusaku Matsuda's last performance. I always think of this movie as Ridley Scott trying to make a move riffing on his brother Tony Scott. How does one family manage to produce two such excellent mainstream film makers? Michael Douglas and Yusaku Matsuda have some good moments making this movie more than an experiment in innovation of bringing the Asian and American action traditions together before that blend becomes a trend. The characters including Garcia's newbie morals give this action some heart.

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