Ricochet
RICOCHET (18)
D: Russell Mulcahy
Warner Bros/HBO (Joel Silver & Michael
Levy)
US 1991
102 mins
Thriller
W: Steven E. de Souza, Fred Dekker & Menno
Meyjes
DP: Peter Levy
Ed: Peter Honess
Mus: Alan Silvestri
Denzel Washington (Nick Styles), John
Lithgow (Earl Talbot Blake), Ice T (Odessa), Kevin Pollak (Larry Doyle), Lindsay Wagner (Priscilla Brimleigh), Mary Ellen Trainor (Gail Wallens)
Denzel Washington stars as a hero policeman, promoted to
an assistant district attorney following the arrest of a psychopathic murderer. But when the murderer escapes from custody and vows revenge, the lawman finds himself on the run, in more ways
than one, and needs help from the other side of the tracks to catch the bad guy once again.
The plot is a standard revenge pot-boiler, lifted above
mediocrity by the sadistically enjoyable performance of John Lithgow, who seems to be having the time of his life playing the dastardly villain. Everyone else just seems to be in it for a
paycheck, especially Ice T, who seems to rap all of his dialogue for some unbeknownst reason.
5/10
