簡介：邁爾肯（丹澤爾?華盛頓 Denzel Washington 飾）出生于一個黑白通婚的家庭，其父是黑人牧師，其母是無偏見的白人。但是當時，美國種族矛盾激化，3K黨經常騷擾他家，在他的幼小心靈中種下了復仇的種子。邁爾肯長大后，混跡于街巷酒吧之中，甚至染上了毒品、偷盜等惡習。一次偶然的機會，邁爾肯與白人女子索菲亞相遇，但這段愛情因種族偏見而夭折。邁爾肯因犯罪鋃鐺入獄，正當他處于困境之時，一位黑人教徒引領他皈依了伊斯蘭教，這也成為他人生的轉捩點。他通過閱讀大量書籍，逐漸了解了種族歧視的文化根源，并多次在公開場合宣揚黑人要獨立、對白人復仇的激進主張，引起軒然大波。邁爾肯成為很多人的眼中釘，甚至遭遇了背叛，引來了滅頂之災……
簡介：Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a copLarry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller.The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narrationvoice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters.Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppieviolence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge.However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.
簡介：退休搖滾明星強尼·博茲（Bill Cable 飾）在性行為的過程中被人用白絲巾捆綁雙手后用冰錐殘忍刺死。其女友凱瑟琳·特拉梅爾（Sharon Stone 飾）是一名作家，去年出版的小說中就有雙手被白絲巾捆綁的退休搖滾明星被女友用冰錐刺死的情節。雖然特拉梅爾通過了謊言測試，但曾槍殺兩位游客卻被判無罪的尼克·柯蘭警探（Michael Douglas 飾）堅持認為特拉梅爾在說謊。因為他自己也曾接受過謊言測試，并且通過了……