Boiling Point | | Cast : | Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper | | Director : | James B. Harris | | Studio : | Warner Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 16, 1993 | | DVD Released Date : | June 01, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 21, 2005 | | Summary | Slow moving!! | Content
 | This film is much like a 1940's film noir. This is not one of Wesley Snipes best. I found the dialogue to be unbelievable. The story is slow moving, which does the film no favors. It winds up to be a disappointing venture for Snipes & Dennis Hopper, who was wasted in his role. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 05, 2005 | | Summary | Dream (when you're feeling blue)... amazing music | Content
| I quite like this unpretentious film noir. It's not the best script in the world, and Wesley Snipes plays a wooden stereotype, but the acting of the two bad guys carries the film. Dennis Hopper has never given a better performance and Viggo Mortensen's handsome, easygoing killer is quite disturbing. The charm of this film revolves around these two conmen. Their self-deceptive patter, Hopper's frequent refrain of "...and that's no lie!", Mortensen's extreme violence forgotten within seconds, the down-at-heel diners, the live band at the Palace dance hall, Hopper's dancing with a wryly amused hooker, the pathos of his long suffering girlfriend left standing alone outside in her blue dress as he's driven away by Snipes at the end... all somehow add up to more than the individual parts.
I'm here because like an earlier reviewer I was blown away by the Big Band music and have been trying to find out who performed it. There is no soundtrack available and the band and singers don't seem to be credited anywhere. If anyone can cast any light I'd be most grateful. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 17, 2003 | | Summary | Never gets even lukewarm | Content
| The film is standard for action films. It is the standard plots without a twist or turn of any type in sight. Add canned behavior and canned speeches and you have.. Boiling Point. I am still trying to figure out how they got that title. There is NOTHING boiling in this not even a time limit. Bad guys try to earn some money. Cops cause problems. Waitress who loves the guy and says goes away but has a heart of gold [make her a hooker and it will really be stereotype] and 92 minutes of sheer boredom and quick fingers on the fast foreward to the good parts which narrows the time down to about 10 minutes if you are easily entertained. I usually say if you have to see or read it rent it or go to the library and get it. In this cases skip it. It was bad when I watched it when it came out in VHS and it is still bad in DVD. Wesley must have needed a paycheck that week. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 20, 2003 | | Summary | [Poor] "action-drama" with horrid acting... | Content
| This long-forgotten chapter for respectable actors Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, and Viggo Mortensen is surprisingly very predictable with little to no action and very bad acting, even on the leads' parts. The plot concerns a heist and a cop out for revenge. The movie tries to advertise the fact that Snipes' character gets real ticked off, but it's more like slightly annoyed or frustrated. Not much of a "Boiling Point" here, just a little chip on the shoulder. Hopper, better in everything else, even "Waterworld", is completely unconvincing as the bumbling villain and Snipes, usually awesome, is reduced to saying cliche lines in a plot that's so boring it's a wonder it's based on a true story. Don't see this one at all. It's [not good], there's little action, and it lessens the respect of everyone involved. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 30, 2003 | | Summary | Don't go into this looking for Blade or Rising Sun | Content
| This is not a fast paced movie. It does have an interesting story of a cop tracking down the murderer of his partner. Well paced and good performances by Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Viggo Mortenesen, Seymour Cassel, and the rest the cast. The settings are good and the music is decent. I hadn't seen this in years but I bought it thinking it was a murder mystery. I wasn't quite right but it was certainly worth seeing. |
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