Men of Action Boxset (I, Robot / Rising Sun / Independence Day) Review
Men of Action Boxset (I, Robot / Rising Sun / Independence Day) Overview
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[if biI, Robot/i/b: As paranoid cop Del Spooner, Will Smith (iIndependence Day/i, iMen in Black/i) displays both his trademark quips and some impressive pectoral muscles in iI, Robot/i. Only Spooner suspects that the robots that provide the near future with menial labor are going to turn on mankind--he's just not sure how. When a leading roboticist dies suspiciously, Spooner pursues a trail that may prove his suspicions. Don't expect much of a connection to Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction stories; iI, Robot/i, the action movie, isn't prepared for any ruminations on the significance of artificial intelligence. This likable, efficient movie won't break any new ground, but it does have an idea or two to accompany its jolts and thrills, which puts it ahead of most recent action flicks. Also featuring Bridget Moynahan (iThe Sum of All Fears/i), Bruce Greenwood (iThe Sweet Hereafter/i), and James Cromwell (iBabe/i, iLA Confidential/i). --iBret Fetzer/ibrbrbiRising Sun/i/b:Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for this film, based on Crichton's best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early '90s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new L.A. headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Intriguing if overlong. --iMarshall Fine/ibrbrbiIndependence Day/i/b: In iIndependence Day/i, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. iIndependence Day/i is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, iIndependence Day/i is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --iTom Keogh/i]
Men of Action Boxset (I, Robot / Rising Sun / Independence Day) Specifications
biI, Robot/i/b: As paranoid cop Del Spooner, Will Smith (iIndependence Day/i, iMen in Black/i) displays both his trademark quips and some impressive pectoral muscles in iI, Robot/i. Only Spooner suspects that the robots that provide the near future with menial labor are going to turn on mankind–he’s just not sure how. When a leading roboticist dies suspiciously, Spooner pursues a trail that may prove his suspicions. Don’t expect much of a connection to Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction stories; iI, Robot/i, the action movie, isn’t prepared for any ruminations on the significance of artificial intelligence. This likable, efficient movie won’t break any new ground, but it does have an idea or two to accompany its jolts and thrills, which puts it ahead of most recent action flicks. Also featuring Bridget Moynahan (iThe Sum of All Fears/i), Bruce Greenwood (iThe Sweet Hereafter/i), and James Cromwell (iBabe/i, iLA Confidential/i). –iBret Fetzer/ibrbrbiRising Sun/i/b:Author Michael Crichton and director Philip Kaufman had a falling-out over the script for this film, based on Crichton’s best-selling novel (which was controversial for its take on the Japanese invasion of American business in the early ’90s). Kaufman ultimately won, doing an above-average job creating a murder mystery based on the culture clash between Los Angeles cops and Japanese multinational business interests. When a prostitute is murdered at the opening of a new L.A. headquarters for a Japanese company, detective Wesley Snipes is forced to call upon retired cop (and Japanophile) Sean Connery to help solve the murder. But he runs into obstruction from the Japanese, as well as a high-tech cover-up, while having to deal with anti-Japanese sentiments from people on his own team. Intriguing if overlong. –iMarshall Fine/ibrbrbiIndependence Day/i/b: In iIndependence Day/i, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. iIndependence Day/i is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn’t even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, iIndependence Day/i is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film’s heroes–played by Will Smith–just happens to run across the president’s injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith’s character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. –iTom Keogh/i
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