Rating: 
Summary: A very violent movie.
Review: My recollections of this movie are from memory. The part that I remember most vividly is John Lithgow killing Jessie Ventura in his own prison cell with his bare hands.I did buy this video and will write more when I watch it again.
Rating: 
Summary: Predictability sends Ricochet careening off track
Review: Ricochet has enough visual style and slickness to make it deserving of big screen status. But somewhere during the proceedings, it careens off track and turns into a predictable cops and robbers yarn. Denzel Washington and John Lithgow emit enough enmity (and attitude) towards each other as the hero and villian respectively. However, Lithgow's plot to do in Washington is rather contrived and too complex to be pulled off as flawlessly as the movie has us believe. And Washington rebounds (ricochets, if you will) from it all in typical Hollywood fashion. Kevin Spacey does a nice job as Washington's wise-cracking partner, and it's nice to see Lindsey Wagner get a rare bigscreen nod as one of Washington's colleagues. But when the dust clears, Ricochet can't manage to shake some of the sulliness its predictability collects.
Rating:
Summary: Exhilirating
Review: This is a brilliantly scripted and acted action-suspense-thriller. Some scenes are extra-violent, with one prison guard having his torso carved in half with a power tool during a break-out; in another scene, the chief villain is sent flying off a tower and ends up pinned like a beetle on a pole. The first half is undoubtedly the best, with its tense and absorbing psychological battle between Earl Blake (John Lithgow) and Nick Styles (Denzel Washington) the smart, wise-cracking cop who put him away, and who then turns succesful District Attorney. It is Styles's success that Blake venomously grudges and so he hatches an elaborate and devious plan from out of prison to destroy Styles. The second half of the film is characterised by implausibility and anti-climax. But on the whole, the dialogue is above the average and the action has a hard-trimmed, gritty quality about it.
Rating: 
Summary: Fresh, fierce and Fast as a speeding bullet
Review: This was a breakout film for Denzel. He did a bang up job as a lawyer targeted by a criminal he outsmarted when he was a rookie cop. Terrific performances by Ice-T, John Lithgow!!! A nicely done thrill ride that takes off at 0 to 60 in 3 seconds and keeps you hanging on around the curves.
| 
