Review of Rising Sun (1993) by Melanie D — 01 Feb 2013

If you can, for 2 whole hours, look past and/or stomach non-American Sean Connery's role as an American who literally bad-mouths every single thing that has to do with his home country here, the USA, and in turn praises every single thing that has to do with Japan and it's 'far superiority' to the USA, to the point where he cowardly and jellyfish-spinedly kisses the ass of every single Japanese character and condescends to every single (inferior, stupid, worthless, clearly corrupt if they're American) American character in this film right before your very eyes, then this is an ok little thriller, but his patriotically heroic tough-guy James Bond days are long gone! Why not simply title this racist piece, "Kill Whitey"? Catchy, true to sentiment and doesn't mince words.