倚天屠龙记之九阳神功（国语版）

　　幕府末期，群雄并起，日本上下动荡不安。在英豪辈出的时代，坂本龙马以其卓越的气魄和超前的思想在历史中占有一席之地。影片则主要描述坂本龙马被暗杀前最后两日的生活。
　　庆应三年十一月十三日，京都下着冰雹，坂本龙马（原田芳雄 饰）栖身于海援队经常落脚之地近江屋。“大政奉还”后局势愈加不稳，此时的坂本已被佐幕派和勤王派双方视为危险人物。无所事事的坂本与妓女厮混，更因手枪不慎走火引来刺客。昔日好友中冈慎太郎（石桥莲司 饰）和萍水相逢的右太（松田优作 饰）放下屠刀，与坂本结为挚友。慎太郎因此入狱，坂本与右太将其救出。后右太被杀，坂本与慎太郎密商逃亡之事的午夜，死神的罗网却已悄悄张开……

明嘉靖三十七年，宦官权倾朝野。方术国师为谄媚监首厂公，提出以“活虎心”炼丹，用以“壮阳重生”。故东厂在猛虎出没地——西南边陲小镇设立“司礼猎场”，猎捕猛虎用以炼化。但没有想到，此举使得奇异病毒进入老虎体内，让老虎发狂，并形成瘟疫迅速传播......

清乾隆年间，红花会舵主于万亭与四当家文泰来趁乾隆皇帝狩猎之际，面呈载有乾隆卑微身世的陈夫人遗书抄本，要挟乾隆与红花会结盟、反清复明。乾隆暗遣张召重杀死于万亭，将文泰来捕获。于万亭义子陈家洛继任舵主，率众前往营救文泰来。途中杀退清军，为来自维疆的木卓伦部队解了围。木卓伦长女霍青桐与家洛一见钟情，随家洛同往劫持囚车，但因清军援兵赶到，未获成功。家洛随即赶赴杭州，偶于飞来峰上与东方耳相遇，二人抚琴论诗，一见如故。后家洛得知乾隆在杭州提审文泰来，夜伏屋顶探视，发现东方耳正是乾隆。不久，家洛返回阔别的故乡，从奶妈处得到亡母陈夫人遗书真迹，方知当朝皇帝乃是在襁褓中被其父用调包计送进王府的胞兄。在父母坟旁，家洛又与乾隆巧遇。乾隆矢口否认自己为陈家后裔，并答应释放文泰来。家洛信以为真，便将亡母遗书投入钱塘江中。岂料乾隆即派重兵围剿红花会。家洛巧施美人计，将乾隆劫持于六和塔上。肃亲王欲借机置乾隆于死地，率八旗炮队猛轰高塔。乾隆万般无奈之下，接受了与红花会结盟反清的协议。本片于1988年获法国巴黎国际妇女电影节特别奖。续集为《戈壁恩仇录》。

在国民党搜捕、屠杀的白色恐怖下，武装起义的浪潮再次高涨。而军阀割据，各方角力的川东地区，也在酝酿着一次起义。时任川军邓锡侯部第7混成旅旅长的旷继勋，心怀革命理想。当他坚定地接过四川省委关于在蓬遂发动起义的命令时，江防军司令唐显也带着“肃清”“整编”的命令悄然而至；心怀不轨的军阀谢德轩随即做起了和事佬妄图大捞一笔。起义的部队不能丢，起义的时间更不能耽误，旷继勋顿时陷入到生死绝地。破釜沉舟的不懈努力，终于找到了破绽——浓雾夜色中的激战后，只留下捶胸顿足的唐显和谢德轩，而旷继勋早已率部成功挺进蓬遂，这是四川第一次武装暴动，并创建了中国工农红军四川第一路军，随后建立了四川第一个县级红色政权蓬溪县苏维埃政府。

　　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 cop?
　　Larry (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 narration/voice 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 yuppie/violence 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.