I really enjoy this movie, Brian Dennehy, Robert Loggia, and I really enjoyed Cuba Gooding's movies at this time. I also enjoyed James Marshall for the most part (lots of missed potential, directed the right way, this movie could have helped him a lot with his career).
My issue is the directing, there just seems to be some lazy scene chopping in this movie, there are cuts that just don't flow together and it hurts the movie and in some cases makes the acting look bad. The soundtrack also (not that they're bad songs) is all over the place - certain song choices really don't fit with the scenes or the overall atmosphere of the movie. I am personally not a big hip hop fan, but for this movie - more of it could have elevated this movie. One minute the music is giving off a gangster vibe for the movie; then all of a sudden it's like a cheap version of a Top Gun soundtrack... It's all over the place. I would honestly love to take this movie (almost 30 years later) and simply edit the soundtrack to use more hip hop genre from that time. I truly believe that would make a huge difference and would have made a huge difference when this movie came out. This would be a great movie to use in teaching how the wrong song choices can help elevate or in this case be destructive to a movie.
My issue is the directing, there just seems to be some lazy scene chopping in this movie, there are cuts that just don't flow together and it hurts the movie and in some cases makes the acting look bad. The soundtrack also (not that they're bad songs) is all over the place - certain song choices really don't fit with the scenes or the overall atmosphere of the movie. I am personally not a big hip hop fan, but for this movie - more of it could have elevated this movie. One minute the music is giving off a gangster vibe for the movie; then all of a sudden it's like a cheap version of a Top Gun soundtrack... It's all over the place. I would honestly love to take this movie (almost 30 years later) and simply edit the soundtrack to use more hip hop genre from that time. I truly believe that would make a huge difference and would have made a huge difference when this movie came out. This would be a great movie to use in teaching how the wrong song choices can help elevate or in this case be destructive to a movie.