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Dangerous Ground

Dangerous Ground

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: YOUR AVERAGE ACTION MOVIE
Review: A YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN [ICE CUBE] WHO IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA YEARS AGO, RETURNS TO SOUTH AFRICA TO BURY HIS FATHER. WHILE HE'S THERE, HE FINDS OUT THAT HIS DRUG ADDICTED BROTHER IS IN BIG TROUBLE WITH AN ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE, WHICH ALSO SPELLS TROUBLE FOR HIM. OF COURSE, VING RHAMES IS INTRIGIUING AS THE VILLAIN, BUT EVERYONE ELSE ACTS PRETTY LAZY IN THIS MOVIE. HAS SOME GOOD ACTION SEQUENCES. I GUESS IT'S WORTH A WATCH. BUT, YOU MIGHT NEED TO RENT THIS BEFORE YOU THINK ABOUT BUYING IT.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: ELIZABETH HURLEY 3 Stars
Review: Even elizabeth hurley could not save this movie i have given her the 3 stars to this movie she looks 100% sexy as always a must $buy$ for all elizabeth hurley fans i own this just for her if you would want to watch it just for Liz BUY it. but if you just want to watch it because your looking for an action movie DONT.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Dangerously Good
Review: I didn't see this movie in the big screen because, well, i didn't even knew it came out. But when i saw it on PPV, I thought to myself, this movie really is Dangerous. It had action and violence in a whole different country.

This is a must see. Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley are extremely good in this movie.

One part in the movie, Ice Cube had put a gun to a guy's face and then puts it in his back pocket to fight him one on one as a warrior. It reminded me of another movie he made called: Friday. Another Dangerously good movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not directed greatly, but cool.
Review: I have to admit dangerous grounds is NOT a GREAT movie but it has a couple unforgetable lines and cool action...and i like the ending line which you can see for yourself. Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley make a great team in the movie, and in the end Ice Cube joins forces with his still living brother... grabs a sweet arsonal of weapons and avenges his brothers death.

I would recommend you check out this movie unless your looking for a really great movie. If you want some action Checkit out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: I just finished watching this movie, and I thought it was great. Good plot and characters, with a satisfying ending. The short and simple facts for this movie are, as long as you are not a person who needs constant action in a movie, you'll find it entertaining and worth your time.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT MOVIE
Review: I just finished watching this movie, and I thought it was great. Good plot and characters, with a satisfying ending. The short and simple facts for this movie are, as long as you are not a person who needs constant action in a movie, you'll find it entertaining and worth your time.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not bad at all
Review: I'm going to be quite candid with this review.

What I liked most about this film is that it wasn't too political, or preachy,and it was a movie set in Africa that thankfully remained in civilization and didn't dwell on stereotypical jungles and bushmen. This movie was all about action and fun and didn't try to sit on a soapbox about South Africa's troubles like some of the disappointed viewers of this movie wanted it to do. Ice Cube always plays himself in his movies, but it worked for "Dangerous Ground". And Hurley was a good sport in this one while playing Ice Cube's "Bond Girl". "Dangerous Ground" is not a memorable film (You can see by the fact that only four people have bothered to review it so far). But its a breath of fresh air when all of the other movies involving Africa features nothing but overdone plots involving bigotry, proverty, or jungles. I give mad props to the filmmakers for this.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Matt Kocik, Good Thriller and action
Review: Ice Cube Acted well and the action was excellent

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: DANGEROUS GROUND Review!
Review: Ice Cube is a South-African exile who returns home after several years to bury his father. When he gets there, he finds one of his brothers fed up with the struggle of the ongoing revolution while the other is missing. After some convincing, he decides to search the streets of Johansburg for his lost brother. Along the way he comes across carjackers, racists, and his brother's crack-addict stripper girlfriend. He is eventually confronted by a psychotic drug boss who demands that he pay his brother's debt or bury him. This leads to a bullet-filled final act with Cube taking out everyone in sight.

Neither excellent nor terrible, "Dangerous Ground" is about as big a mixed bag as it gets. Cube gives a solid performance, Hurley is really easy on the eyes, and the story shows heart but never remains consistent. There are a handful of entertaining moments and small attempts to display a social concience but the film never really realizes its full potentiol. Most of the key dramatic sequences aren't played up enough and the action elements are equally underplayed.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: mish mash of ideas and concepts that fails badly
Review: its kinda easy to see how this film got made,but somewhere along the line someone shouldve said,hang on a minute,this isnt going to work.the basic plot is that a young boy (for no explained reason) has to leave africa and go and live in the hood,yo.years later he hears his father was murdered and goes to africa to bury him/find the killer.from there on in it goes a bit hazy.theres african childhood/american living clash plotlines,finding inner self type nonsense,then several more wierd plots;theres a wierd football (also known as soccer) subplot,which really doesnt make any sense at all.quite why they chose this film to contain so much football discussion is quite beyond me.other nonsense like "blacks need to be oppressed" are thrown into the mix for good measure.that particular theory i found just a teeny bit offensive,and making the generalisation that since apartheid was lifted all black people need gangsters and drug dealers to make them function properly is simply absurd.im no expert on poverty or black history,but it would seem that because of apartheid and oppression many of the black community were trapped in poverty,which bred the gangs and the drugs.to say that areas of mostly black people in some way knowingly willed gang violence and drugs onto themselves is simply wrong.why did no one see this and say,hold on a minute,this isnt right and we shouldnt be saying it? onto the casting,which is very poor.ice cube is WOEFULLY miscast as the main character in this.its simply not plausible that a 14 year old african boy would after 10 years in america suddenly turn into an all american with absolutely no african accent at all.so there you are,right from the word go this film doesnt feel right.next,why is liz hurley in this??? to boost up the T&A ratio thats why!!!! ok,thanks for the answer.but it was meant to be a rhetorical question.in the film cubes brother conveniently lives next door to his girlfriend/conveniently happens to be liz hurley/conveniently happens to be a stripper/conveniently like to answer the door in a small t shirt and pants,wear little mini skirts etc etc etc..... she plays a crack head,talk about typecasting!!!!! well her actings horrible.her african accent is terrible,you can almost see her eyeing the camera or director,with a look that says hope i look good in this shot.the writers must have thought,how do we invent scenes where she shows off a lot of flesh.hey,tell you what,why dont we put her in a miniskirt and get her to move from the front to the back seat of a car while its still driving,that way everyone can see her pants.if they were THAT interested in her as a real actress they would have sent her to make up so that she looked a realistic crack whore,rather than glamour her up to make her look pretty.do her and cube interact as characters??? no,they deliver the script with sterility normally associated with men working in a nuclear power plant. the mad gang leader is funny though,with his obsession with watching big men run around,sucking chicken feet,crack,flamboyant clothes,and for some reason delivering his lines like a rubbish dubbed kung fu actor,he provides some laughs,albeit unintentionally. i especially enjoyed the bit where him and that guy are watching the looped bit of football footage,them he goes, "mind your own business,detective inspector".....classic line,it really is!!!! all this,and they also tried an action thriller with guns etc etc etc.and as per usual,a rubbish ending ensued.within 5 minutes of murdering loads of guys,cube,crack whore hurley and some other also ran,are laughing and joking,with cube phoning his wife....the conversation is brilliant.hi dear,want to come and live in the middle of nowhere,chances are you'll die of something or other,murdered,or ill be jailed for mass murder.oh yeah,my brothers a crack head,and his girlfriends a cracked up stripper,but they're great honest.hey,she can even fire an ak 47,despite never having handled one and she was injecting heroin about an hour prior to this incident.oh yeah,i killed loads of guys. you wanna come over then???? yeah ok then,let me just finish dinner then ill be over ok dear.bye. anyway,this review has gone on quite long enough,theres a million other things wrong with this film but ive explained enough of them already.its not worth seeing at all.unless you think liz hurley is attractive,which to be honest i dont think shes that nice really.id have given it 2 stars for the fact that im sure the writers meant well with this film,but the mark is taken off for callous supermodel-unwieldy plot because of-main character but rubbish-only in it to show off her assets-nonsense. so 1 out of 5,because it is rather poor and quite insulting in many ways.


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