Black Rain (1989)

Stars	User	Rating
4	Paxton	70 _63rd
A perfectly 80's dirty cop, fish out of water tale featuring antihero Douglas and his oh so American casual racism. He's more gruff than McGruff the Crime Dog but only half as house trained. The real fish out of water was Kate Capshaw surrounded by all these professional actors.
2	LookJabba...	8 _76th
Black Rain is possibly Ridley Scott's most underrated film. Michael Douglas gives a solid performance and I'd of loved to of seen him do more roles like this. Both Ken Takakura and Yusaku Matsuda are great also. But Andy Garcia is horribly annoying. Atmospherically Jan De Bont's gloomy cinematography is stunning and Hans Zimmer's brilliant score superbly captures Japan. It's regarded by many as just another 80's action/thriller, but I think Black Rain is definitely something of an unsung gem.
2	Sheldrake	40 _23rd
I think the movie wants me to think Douglas' cop character is 'a badass loner who doesn't play by the rules' rather than 'a petulant child who has absolutely no impulse control'. It doesn't do a very good job at that. Scott's Japan is stylish to a fault, and the xenophobic loathing is nearly palpable. Kind of a miserable experience.
1	Moribunny	68 _70th
Though there's quite a bit of enjoyable substance and detail to Black Rain, it drifts more and more toward its genre's stupid convention culminating in an embarrassingly cliched finale. I can't give it points for originality, but it stands head and shoulders above most 80s action fare in terms of performances (Garcia, Takakura and Douglas in his top form, as well as a good supporting cast), gorgeous sets and photography, nice tension and a perfect spot of humor. The synth music did not impress.
1	irvinejump	70 _61st
It's funny, but Tokyo in real life looks less realistic than the set of scott's earlier film Blade Runner
1	BillyShears	75 _65th
Guh go away Kate Capshaw . I thought you were only contained within Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
1	synthono	78 _39th
Fish out of water detective story, where the fish is kind of a moron who screws things up, with a bit of light criticism of the US. Ridley Scott directs with his usual polish, some twists scribble outside the expected genre lines to add a bit of depth and interest, and it has aged remarkably well apart from flagrantly 80s music. It's a thoroughly decent detective film that is easy to enjoy.
1	closedmouth	60 _20th
Looks great for the most part, but the script is so stupid, with Douglas's character such an absurd walking cliché of a renegade "badass" cop that the whole thing regularly resembles more of a parody than a straight thriller. My favourite part was probably Matsuda's deranged, bug-eyed performance, but even that was under-utilised.

Average Percentile 42.53% from 985 Ratings