Word: copping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic planes of her wide-screen face, which looks like Diane Sawyer's pressed against a windshield. When her lips crack open into a wide, diagonal smile, some Mae West line seems ready to emerge. "Come up and see me sometime." And Frank Keller (Al Pacino), a good cop with no life, does just that. Though Helen is a suspect in the grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank, she strips off her red jacket with the urgency of a lifeguard en route...
JOHNNY HANDSOME. A rarity among crime thrillers, this film is as intelligent as it is well made. A supposedly reformed underworld character (Mickey Rourke) plots an elegant caper against some double-crossing crooks, under the eye of a savvy, cynical cop (Morgan Freeman...
This fall the moviegoer has a choice of two Black Rains set in Japan, but they're not hard to tell apart. One is Shohei Imamura's stark meditation on Hiroshima 1945. The other is a cop movie backed by some heavy Hollywood artillery: the producers of Fatal Attraction. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are two New York City detectives on the trail of a cool, vicious Japanese gangster (Yusaku Matsuda). Their contact in the Osaka constabulary is a by- the-book gent (Ken Takakura) affronted by Douglas' bullying. You've seen this picture before; last year it was called...
...this the pinnacle of Scott's luscious style or a parody of it? Maybe it's the spectacle of a director running for cover. Scott's last hit was Alien, a decade ago; these days his brother Tony directs the blockbusters (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II). So Black Rain catches a gifted imagist between inspirations, biding his time without quite wasting ours...
...nice idea, but it was done in the 1930s by a strip called "Krazy Kat." In "Krazy Kat" a mouse repeatedly throws a brick at a cat, who constantly forgives the mouse for his attacks, Krazy Kat loves the mouse, but a dog cop loves Krazy Kat and arrests the mouse every time he throws a brick. The strip has long been acclaimed for its avant garde landscape and subtle humor. If Breathed is trying to revive the themes of "Krazy Kat," he should stop now before he embarrasses himself...