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One of Ridley Scott's weakest Eighties movies, not least because it contains plot holes larger than the Grand Canyon thanks to a hackneyed script by Craig Bolotin and Warren Lewis. Michael Douglas is Nick Conklin - dreadful name for a leading man. The fact that he's a cop on the edge is also incredibly yawnsome as by the end of the Eighties, this genre was more tired than a marathon runner on the home stretch. Andy Garcia is on hand as the sacrifical pawn; Kate Capshaw a rather gorgeous leading woman and Ken Takakura plays the obligatory local cop who helps out our cliched hero. On the production side, this has an okay score by Gladiator's Hans Zimmer while Jan De Bont provides the gorgeous cinematography, a few years before going on to churn out the hit and miss Speed movies, Twister and The Haunting remake. Nick Conklin...................... Michael Douglas Charlie Vincent..................Andy Garcia Masahiro Matsumoto..........Ken Takakura Joyce Kingsley.....................Kate Capshaw Sato..................................Yusaku Matsuda Sugai.................................Tomisaburo Wakayama Ohashi...............................Shigeru Koyama Nashida..............................Yuya Uchida Miyuki.................................Miyuki Ono
Alien (1979) |
