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Dangerous Ground

1997, Movie, R, 92 mins

Dangerous Ground: Review

DANGEROUS GROUND
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This is not a joke: Adolescent South African schoolboy Vusi is smuggled out of the country and sent to California, where he grows up to be Ice Cube. He returns to Africa for his father's funeral, and finds that the traditions of tribal African life are as alien to him as they would be to any white American. Sent to find his younger brother Stephen (Eric "Waku" Miyeni), who's disappeared into the urban wilds of Johannesburg, Vusi finds that the urban underbelly is the same the world over: Fueled by drugs, strippers in fetish gear -- including Stephen's crackhead girlfriend, glamorous skank Karin (Elizabeth Hurley) -- violence, rap and racial tension, all run by a philosopher thug named Muki (Ving Rhames, PULP FICTION's Marsellus Wallace). A gangsta movie dressed up as a look at the social problems of rapidly changing South Africa, this preposterous mishmash isn't without entertainment value: Hurley can't act at all, but looks very fetching in vinyl pants and leopard-print; Rhames delivers much of his dialogue while sucking on a chicken foot; and some attractive countryside is occasionally glimpsed en route from one seamy location to another. The chunky Cube is less than convincing as an African-born expat (his made-in-the-USA argot is a real distraction), but he executes the tough-guy moves with conviction. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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