Ricochet (1991)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Russell Mulcahy

Writers (WGA):

Fred Dekker (story) and
Menno Meyjes (story) ...

Release Date:

4 October 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

He's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he's innocent is the killer who framed him.

Plot:

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Drugs | Revenge | Tower | Sex

Cast

Denzel Washington	...	Nick Styles
John Lithgow	...	Blake
Ice-T	...	Odessa (as Ice T)
Kevin Pollak	...	Larry
Lindsay Wagner	...	Brimleigh
Mary Ellen Trainor	...	Gail Wallens
Josh Evans	...	Kim
Victoria Dillard	...	Alice
John Amos	...	Reverend Styles
John Cothran Jr.	...	Farris
Linda Dona	...	Wanda (as Linda Doná)
Matt Landers	...	Chief Floyd
Lydell M. Cheshier	...	R.C.
Starletta DuPois	...	Mrs. Styles
Sherman Howard	...	Kiley

Runtime:

109 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Germany:16 (cut) | Germany:18 (cut) | Argentina:16 | Iceland:16 | Singapore:M18 | Australia:R | South Korea:18 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Philippines:R-18 | Canada:18A | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 (cut) | USA:R | Netherlands:16 | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

City Hall - 200 N. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Cinema Plus

Trivia:

Mary Ellen Trainor played reporter Gail Wallens, a character she also played in Die Hard (1988).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Styles is getting dressed in the locker room and stands up when the woman comes in the room you can clearly see that Washington is wearing a "modesty pouch".

Quotes:

Book Man: You! You're a cop, you gotta help me!
Det. Larry Doyle: Sorry, mein fuhrer, I'm off duty.

Movie Connections:

References "Cops" (1989)

Soundtrack:

You Better Mind

Action Picture Fizzles Upon Impact **1/2

Denzel Washington, a policeman in law-school is playing basketball with the neighborhood toughs.

He achieves fame by bringing down a drug dealing character, played extremely well by John Lithgow, who by his acting of a psychopath, put a new dimension into his acting abilities.

Washington has it made as the years pass. Lithgow plots revenge while incarcerated and breaks out violently at his parole hearing.

He turns the tables on Washington in several ways including the killing of his friend and fellow officer, nice played by Kevin Pollak. Washington is blamed for the killing. He kidnaps Denzel and shoots drugs into his system and provides him with a prostitute.

The two eventually tangle on top of a high area before the obvious ending occurs.

A good story allowed to go awry by crazy staged events.