Ricochet (1991)

90 Gah, this is just delightful. Trash heaven. Denzel Washington faces off against John Lithgow. Full-tilt crazy, both of them. Basically a Harvey Dent vs. Joker movie. Feels like a toxic blend of erotic thriller and 'wrong man' tropes, but that still doesn't account for…

SilentDawn

In which a supposed cat-and-mouse Dirty Harry sequel spec-script about a deranged criminal coming back to viciously stalk and torment the cop/DA who put him away years earlier Cape Fear style was instead placed into the hands of an absurd alchemy of 80s action maestros…

Josh Lewis

Borders on outright transcendent in terms of how utterly deranged it's willing to get, let down only by an obviously test audience approved ending where it seems to wake up and remember it's a Hollywood film. Still there is some outright jaw dropping stuff in this, to the…

COBRARocky

This is in essence the original DTV movie that somehow escaped to theaters, and still maybe the best one. Discussed on Episode 7 of The Suspense is Killing Us.

matt lynch

90 The scene at the parole hearing is one of the great bozo explosions of violence - total cartoon anarchy. The rest of the movie is pretty good too.

SilentDawn

Starring: King Kong Ain’t Got Sh!t On Denzel Objectively speaking, one could find a thousand different reasons and arguments to dislike of this picture, but in the end, none of that really matters. When it comes to '90s thrillers, this is up there with the most…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The sub Saul Bass/Bernard Hermann credit sequence promises a Hitchcockian paranoid thriller, but it is really a Joel Silver produced Steven E de Souza penned piece of pure sleaze. It is all about loaded images, conflicting narratives and perception and how expectations made…

Filipe Furtado

Man the late 80’s/early 90’s action fare was GNARLY. Lithgow chews scenes like he’s got chainsaw mouth, Denzel is vibrant and feisty and the HIGHLANDER-sequel prison fight is worth a look alone.

Joe Lynch

Prison guard: "I hope you remembered to floss." John Lithgow: "I did...with your wife's pubic hair." Unbelievably lurid and insane action movie/psychological thriller with Denzel and Lithgow essentially trying to top each other in craziness throughout, like Lou Reed…

Timcop