Dangerous Ground
Dangerous Ground
Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley in the tale of a South African freedom fighter who returns home after 14 years in exile for his father’s funeral. Apartheid is over, but now the drug wars are destroying his people…and his brother is missing in action.An odd combination of consciousness-raising and run-of-the-mill action, Dangerous Ground features Ice Cube, mostly unbelievably, as a one-time South African native named Vusi. Vusi came to America at age 14 to escape police repression, and eventually reinvented himself as an American scholar and community-oriented volunteer. Called back to the old country to bury his father, Vusi discovers the new South Africa under Mandela, but also gets a snootful of the nation’s surge in crime and drug
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Not bad at all,
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.
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|3:am film,
this film is a bad joke.who can act in this film? Ice Cube is himself.nothing new here.Elizabeth Hurley is very bland.also due to Hollywoods Racial hangups what happen to the sparks between Cube&Hurley? not a very believable film in any way.one of those 3:am films at best.
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|DANGEROUS GROUND 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.
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