Review of Rising Sun (1993) by Christopher S — 02 Mar 2012

An adequate film but nowhere near as good as Michael Crichton's novel which it was adapted from. While Philip Kaufman is a good director, I feel he did not match the intensity of the novel and did not depict well the tension between US authorities in Los Angeles and the Japanese businessmen who took hostile takeovers in the US to another level.

Kaufman tried like hell to portray it but he did not do so well. Sean Connery was very good as the Japanese expert John Connor but Wesley Snipes was miscast as Web Smith. Harvey Keitel was excellent and he helped to save this film from being a total disaster but this film adaptation could have been so much better.