Bedazzling visuals will allow a film to get reasonably far in terms of making a memorable impression, and in Black Rain’s case, “far” is a considerable distance.
With its steady collection of admirers, the film continues to draw praise in some quarters as the years tick by, with its unapologetic thrills mixed with dynamic visual storytelling render it worthy of minor classic status.
A rain-slicked gem at the tail-end of the ’80s.
More than a straightforward actioner, the tale of an under-fire detective’s cross-continental journey to deliver a brutal gangster to justice has managed to retain a sense of storytelling zeal — an energy often characteristic of director Ridley Scott’s more full-blooded genre salvos.
And the movie today occupies an interesting spot in the filmmaker’s canon – several years after the cultural watershed that was Blade Runner and right before the classic, emancipatory road movie Thelma and Louise,
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