- Actors: Richard Gere, Ling Bai, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann, Peter Donat
- Directors: Jon Avnet
- Writers: Robert King
- Producers: Jon Avnet, Baifang Liu, Charles Mulvehill, Gail Katz, Jordan Kerner
- Format: NTSC
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: MGM (Warner)
- VHS Release Date: Oct 10 2002
- Run Time: 122 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 0792838211
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#890 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #5 in Video > Mystery & Suspense > Crime > Courtroom Drama
- #30 in Video > Mystery & Suspense > Suspense
- #41 in Video > Mystery & Suspense > Thrillers
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Using a faulty thriller for his soapbox as an outspoken critic of China, a devout follower of the Dalai Lama, and an influential supporter of Tibetan freedom, Richard Gere resorts to the equivalent of propagandistic drama to deliver a heavy-handed message. In other words, Red Corner relies on a dubious strategy to promote political awareness, but director Jon Avnet appeals to the viewer's outrage with such effective urgency that you're likely to forget you're being shamelessly manipulated. Gere plays a downtrodden TV executive who sells syndicated shows on the global market, and during a business trip to China he finds himself framed for the murder of the sexy daughter of a high Chinese official. Once trapped in a legal system in which his innocence will be all but impossible to prove, Gere must rely on a Chinese-appointed lawyer (played by Bai Ling) who first advises him to plead guilty but gradually grows convinced of foul play. Barely attempting to hide its agenda, Red Corner effectively sets the stage for abundant anti-Chinese sentiment, and to be sure, the movie gains powerful momentum with its tale of justice gone awry. It's a serious-minded, high-intensity courtroom drama with noble intentions ... but did it have to be so conspicuously lacking in subtlety? --Jeff Shannon
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Mei Shi! Really, "it's nothing".,
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This review is from: Red Corner (Widescreen) (DVD)
The premise of this idiotic film is that an American businessman played by Richard Geare is able to exonerate himself of a crime which he did not commit purely on the basis of the fact that he knows how to say "it's nothing" in Chinese. The plot of this idiotic film is that some greedy businessmen in cahoots with corrupt members of the Chinese government stage an elaborate show trial to off their rival instead of just killing him. The romance in this idiotic film is two-fold:1.) A trampy model who is supposed to set Richard Geare up for black mail changes her mind because she likes him. 2. The sweet, sensitive female lawyer who represents Richard Geare kind of takes a fancy to him herself. I could probably endure the moronic plot, and even all the Chinese bashing that goes on in the film. But to hear Richard Geare sputter two or three words of Chinese and to realize that this is a fulcrum of the plot is more than I can endure. You're really better off watching "Drop Dead Fred" or "Cabin Boy".
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Politics aside, it's a good film.,
This review is from: Red Corner (Widescreen) (DVD)
After reading some of the negative reviews of this film on amazon.com I felt I had to put my two cents in defending it. First of all I don't think people should get so emotional and excited about it's portrayal of the communist China's regime and judicial system. Yes, maybe the film is prapogandist, maybe Chinese legal system today is not anything like the movie portrays it to be and maybe it was like that at one time in any case, everyone knows corruption and injustice exists more or less everywhere whether it's China, United States, Western Europe and more than likely innocent people have been executed in countries that keep the death penalty whether it's China or the US or wherever. But it's not like Hollywood never made a film that's critical of the American judicial or political system involving corrupt government officials. Clear and Present Danger for example. That's why controversial movies like this help get the message out even if just by motivating people to talk about such isues. As for the film itself, the acting is medeocre. The musical score is pretty good. The Chinese actress that plays's Gere's atorney performs better than Gere especialy during the final court scene. It's a thought provoking movie and not just eye candy like a lot of the films of today.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Movie that Exposes Corrupt Government Officials,
By A Customer
This review is from: Red Corner (Widescreen) (DVD)
Red Corner shows what can occur in the courts of China. It emphasizes the need for change.In the movie, Gere's character has to go through an uphill battle to prove his innocence. He is told that he is guilty before he has even given a chance to argue in trial. The end result of the movie proves satisfying. Giovanni's review is inaccurate. Gere's acting is good. His character is not a common business man. Giovanni must have missed part of the movie because it is shown that Gere's character studied law at Harvard. His character requests for a English translation of the Chinese laws and studies them. He uses his intelligence to figure out what can be done in the courtroom, but learns that the laws that he read about don't stand for much.
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