Dangerous Ground | | Cast : | Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley | | Director : | Darrell Roodt | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 12, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | February 03, 2004 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | May 26, 2004 | | Summary | YOUR AVERAGE ACTION MOVIE | Content
 | A YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN [ICE CUBE] WHO IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA YEARS AGO, RETURNS TO SOUTH AFRICA TO BURY HIS FATHER. WHILE HE'S THERE, HE FINDS OUT THAT HIS DRUG ADDICTED BROTHER IS IN BIG TROUBLE WITH AN ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE, WHICH ALSO SPELLS TROUBLE FOR HIM. OF COURSE, VING RHAMES IS INTRIGIUING AS THE VILLAIN, BUT EVERYONE ELSE ACTS PRETTY LAZY IN THIS MOVIE. HAS SOME GOOD ACTION SEQUENCES. I GUESS IT'S WORTH A WATCH. BUT, YOU MIGHT NEED TO RENT THIS BEFORE YOU THINK ABOUT BUYING IT. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 28, 2004 | | Summary | GREAT MOVIE | Content
| I just finished watching this movie, and I thought it was great. Good plot and characters, with a satisfying ending. The short and simple facts for this movie are, as long as you are not a person who needs constant action in a movie, you'll find it entertaining and worth your time. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 03, 2004 | | Summary | mish mash of ideas and concepts that fails badly | Content
| its kinda easy to see how this film got made,but somewhere along the line someone shouldve said,hang on a minute,this isnt going to work.the basic plot is that a young boy (for no explained reason) has to leave africa and go and live in the hood,yo.years later he hears his father was murdered and goes to africa to bury him/find the killer.from there on in it goes a bit hazy.theres african childhood/american living clash plotlines,finding inner self type nonsense,then several more wierd plots;theres a wierd football (also known as soccer) subplot,which really doesnt make any sense at all.quite why they chose this film to contain so much football discussion is quite beyond me.other nonsense like "blacks need to be oppressed" are thrown into the mix for good measure.that particular theory i found just a teeny bit offensive,and making the generalisation that since apartheid was lifted all black people need gangsters and drug dealers to make them function properly is simply absurd.im no expert on poverty or black history,but it would seem that because of apartheid and oppression many of the black community were trapped in poverty,which bred the gangs and the drugs.to say that areas of mostly black people in some way knowingly willed gang violence and drugs onto themselves is simply wrong.why did no one see this and say,hold on a minute,this isnt right and we shouldnt be saying it? onto the casting,which is very poor.ice cube is WOEFULLY miscast as the main character in this.its simply not plausible that a 14 year old african boy would after 10 years in america suddenly turn into an all american with absolutely no african accent at all.so there you are,right from the word go this film doesnt feel right.next,why is liz hurley in this??? to boost up the T&A ratio thats why!!!! ok,thanks for the answer.but it was meant to be a rhetorical question.in the film cubes brother conveniently lives next door to his girlfriend/conveniently happens to be liz hurley/conveniently happens to be a stripper/conveniently like to answer the door in a small t shirt and pants,wear little mini skirts etc etc etc..... she plays a crack head,talk about typecasting!!!!! well her actings horrible.her african accent is terrible,you can almost see her eyeing the camera or director,with a look that says hope i look good in this shot.the writers must have thought,how do we invent scenes where she shows off a lot of flesh.hey,tell you what,why dont we put her in a miniskirt and get her to move from the front to the back seat of a car while its still driving,that way everyone can see her pants.if they were THAT interested in her as a real actress they would have sent her to make up so that she looked a realistic crack whore,rather than glamour her up to make her look pretty.do her and cube interact as characters??? no,they deliver the script with sterility normally associated with men working in a nuclear power plant. the mad gang leader is funny though,with his obsession with watching big men run around,sucking chicken feet,crack,flamboyant clothes,and for some reason delivering his lines like a rubbish dubbed kung fu actor,he provides some laughs,albeit unintentionally. i especially enjoyed the bit where him and that guy are watching the looped bit of football footage,them he goes, "mind your own business,detective inspector".....classic line,it really is!!!! all this,and they also tried an action thriller with guns etc etc etc.and as per usual,a rubbish ending ensued.within 5 minutes of murdering loads of guys,cube,crack whore hurley and some other also ran,are laughing and joking,with cube phoning his wife....the conversation is brilliant.hi dear,want to come and live in the middle of nowhere,chances are you'll die of something or other,murdered,or ill be jailed for mass murder.oh yeah,my brothers a crack head,and his girlfriends a cracked up stripper,but they're great honest.hey,she can even fire an ak 47,despite never having handled one and she was injecting heroin about an hour prior to this incident.oh yeah,i killed loads of guys. you wanna come over then???? yeah ok then,let me just finish dinner then ill be over ok dear.bye. anyway,this review has gone on quite long enough,theres a million other things wrong with this film but ive explained enough of them already.its not worth seeing at all.unless you think liz hurley is attractive,which to be honest i dont think shes that nice really.id have given it 2 stars for the fact that im sure the writers meant well with this film,but the mark is taken off for callous supermodel-unwieldy plot because of-main character but rubbish-only in it to show off her assets-nonsense. so 1 out of 5,because it is rather poor and quite insulting in many ways. |
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