Review of Black Moon Rising (1986) by Michael Wilmington for Los Angeles Times — 30 Apr 1986
It’s swift and mean--a little empty perhaps, but not enough to distract you from its pleasures: the stark, brilliantly metallic gleam cinematographer Misha Suslov puts on his images, the psycho-electric jabs of the Lalo Schifrin score, the clean thrust of the plot, the furiously lucid action and the canny, almost stylized, minimalist performances of the actors (Jones, Hamilton, Vaughn, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, Ving, Smith and the others).
The movie may be shallow, but it’s also trim. It has that easy virtue of the old-line Hollywood B film: little visible excess fat.
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This review of Black Moon Rising (1986) was written by Michael Wilmington and published by Los Angeles Times on 30 Apr 1986.
Black Moon Rising has generally received mixed reviews.
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