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Actors: Denzel Washington
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ricochet |
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Nick Styles (Denzel Washington) was just an ordinary cop on the beat in the big city, until the day his climactic, video-taped showdown with mass-murdering hitman and robber Earl Talbott Blake (John Lithgow) landed him in the spotlight.
In the coming years, Styles becomes a major player in city politics, earning his law degree and joining the District Attorney's office.
While Styles's star continues to rise, Blake rots in a desert prison, killing and maiming anyone suicidal enough to be his cellmate and obsessing over news-images of Styles's success.
As Nick prepares for a major telethon for his pet project, the restoration of the downtown district in general and the decrepit "twin towers" in particular, and discusses a possible run for mayor with his "rabbi," Councilman Farris, Blake organizes a group of neo-Nazi prisoners in a bloody breakout. Only three escapees survive to reach freedom: Blake, his protege, and the Aryan leader.
The Aryan's plan is simple: meet back at a specified bookshop in two weeks to pick-up fake ID, then skip the country. But Blake has other ideas. He kills the Aryan and burns his body in a car crash. This, coupled with a switch of the Aryan's dental records for his, convinces the world that Blake is dead.
As Nick tries to get both the downtown project and his candidacy off the ground, Blake begins to tear-down his enemy's accomplishments one by one, framing Nick for corruption, pedophilia, drug abuse, adultery, and murder.
Nick struggles to expose Blake as the mastermind behind his troubles, but the only one who believes him is his old partner from the force.
This subtle, psychological action flick ping-pongs from the sewers of the ghetto to the posh suburbs and comes to an explosive conclusion atop the twin towers complex.
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
Criminal enemy is...
- bad vigilante getting revenge
If this is a criminal POV story...
- killing innocent people
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- red
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
Misc setting
- prison
- sewers/subways
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 ()
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- hanging
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
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