My friend and I got this 90s Richard Gere thriller on VHS and started it, got maybe 30 minutes in before he pulled the plug, saying, "this shit is boring"
Red Corner is and was a relatively unknown cash in on the then current China and Tibet crisis. Made not so much directly about China but rather about how awful China is, Richard Gere is lead as an American who is found with a dead Chinese woman after a night of sex and gets framed for her murder. The corrupt, awful Chinese government gets placed as the villain while Gere goes up against them.
I mean....I dunno right? I don't know what to say about this. Number one, it is way too long at 2 hours. We know he's not guilty cuz it's a Richard Gere movie, so its a movie about constructing the pieces to prove his innocence. There's mild tension in some of the court room scenes as we watch the difficulty he has with the system there, but overall he is always granted enough leeway to prove his point.
Bai Ling is his attorney and sh'e pretty good, and other than it is extremely averagely made. It was a bomb, got bad reviews, and will somehow live forever, which is odd. I give it like 1.5 stars.
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