启示之路：是结束也是开始

　　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……

　　黑帮继承人之间为了争夺下一任社团领袖之位在地底展开厮杀，却引出某种未知的生物,这是作家夫妻二人笔下的故事，也是他们现实生活的映照，小说中的角色要在虚构的世界对抗未知的怪物,而作家夫妻二人能否在真实世界对抗已知的痛苦?一切,都交给爱去解答。

功夫少年少阳在“陈继武菊花石杯功夫自由选拔赛”中被他的对手宋健打败后。他感觉自己拿到比赛的冠军真的是不可能了。顿时，心灰意冷，一蹶不振。期间，他的姐姐思羽、师傅邱振龙、师兄子陆都在劝说和安慰他，试图让他走出失败的阴影。但是都无济于事。无奈他们只好让他自己先冷静思考一下。观看比赛回来后，华叔和金爷见了一面。金爷告诉他现在他需要……

　　影片由一个少年学艺、为父报仇的故事展开，发展为一个抗击恶势力、维护家人利益的励志故事，主角叶少侠在尚武镇历尽艰辛吃尽苦头，最终成为一代大师。剧中人物以喜剧表演风格将影片维持在一个轻松氛围中，所塑造的叶少侠行为上除了体现中国儒家传统的忠孝仁义等优秀品质外，还带有西方泊来的平等博爱等观念的影响。而叶少侠初期自身缺点——争强好胜的少年心性，也让他在励志学武过程中更加的赋予人物色彩。过程中武艺精进，实则是少年心性的塑造，开始的一心复仇，到了影片的后半部分更多的是迫不得已才出手，保卫“家人”而出手，复仇的情节早已在人物成长中有所释怀。影片对反派的恶丝毫不留情面，反派所代表的外邦势力，更能让人感受到故事发生时期人民所受的屈辱。这将是给主角展示能力的合理依据，不仅是反省，更是自强则国强的隐喻。

　　一场意外让达克（史蒂夫·麦奎因 Steve McQueen 饰）即将面临漫长而又痛苦的牢狱之灾，为了让丈夫免于受难，达克的妻子卡罗尔（艾丽·麦古奥 Ali MacGraw 饰）不惜牺牲色相，贿赂监狱的上层官员。果不其然，达克获得了特别假释，与此同时，警长拜伦（本·约翰逊 Ben Johnson 饰）告诉达克，作为交换，他必须帮他一个“小忙”——抢劫一间银行！
　　迫于拜伦的淫威，达克只能就范，然而，他并不知道的事，拜伦的内心里早已经判了自己死刑，他根本就没有想让达克或者离开犯罪现场。和达克一起行动的是一位名叫鲁迪（艾尔·勒提埃里 Al Lettieri 饰）的男子，他的想法同拜伦不谋而合。在这样腹背受敌的危险状况之下，达克能否顺利完成任务呢？

　　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.