Review of Red Corner (1997) by Derek S — 05 Apr 2012

While this film had a lot of potential, it ultimately did not deliver. Richard Gere was solid as the framed and wrongly accused businessman Jack Moore but most of the other cast members could not act out of a paper bag.

I understand the point of having a female counterpart to Gere but Bai Ling was not good as the defense advocate Shen Yuelin. She seemed out of place and way too pretty to be a seasoned attorney. Byron Mann cannot act out of a paper bag.

Good thing for him he can do martial arts and he is good looking. Of course I have not seen him in anything lately, which is good. I mostly blame Robert King and Jon Avnet. The story was good but the script was not good at all.

Neither was directing. Hopefully this film could be remade with better directors and writers in the next ten years.