| Dangerous Ground | 
 enlarge | Director: Darrell Roodt
Actors: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Thokozani Nkosi, Ron Smerczak, Wilson Dunster
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 53090
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 95
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Array
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN4852D
ISBN: 0780627830
UPC: 794043485220
EAN: 9780780627833
ASIN: 0780627830
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1997
Release Date: November 23, 1999
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An odd combination of consciousness-raising and run-of-the-mill action, Dangerous Ground features Ice Cube, mostly unbelievably, as a one-time South African native named Vusi. Vusi came to America at age 14 to escape police repression, and eventually reinvented himself as an American scholar and community-oriented volunteer. Called back to the old country to bury his father, Vusi discovers the new South Africa under Mandela, but also gets a snootful of the nation's surge in crime and drug usage. Sent to Johannesburg to retrieve a long-missing brother, Vusi allies himself with a coke-addicted stripper (Elizabeth Hurley) who knows the vanished man. The script and direction by Darrell James Roodt (Cry, the Beloved Country) seems to be serving various masters: viewers interested in epochal changes in South Africa, and viewers who want to kick back and watch a suspense movie about drugs, a hooker, and a nasty crime lord (Ving Rhames). The result is unwieldy, and Cube's thumping performance doesn't do much to bridge the gap. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
What he wants is revenge. What he gets is the fight of his life. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: Elizabeth Hurley Thokosani Nkosi Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Darrell Roodt
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 Ok from a man who lived in Africa. August 26, 2005
First of all this movie reminds me of the time when I was in South Africa. It is similar in a way but it would have been more intresting and better if the actors and actresses were speaking Afrikans, Zulu, Xhosa in most part of the movie. They should of also had actors or so called actors acting as Boeras. Then it would of got a five star rating from me. Only one song in Zulu what was the director thinking?
YOUR AVERAGE ACTION MOVIE May 26, 2004
A YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN [ICE CUBE] WHO IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA YEARS AGO, RETURNS TO SOUTH AFRICA TO BURY HIS FATHER. WHILE HE'S THERE, HE FINDS OUT THAT HIS DRUG ADDICTED BROTHER IS IN BIG TROUBLE WITH AN ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE, WHICH ALSO SPELLS TROUBLE FOR HIM. OF COURSE, VING RHAMES IS INTRIGIUING AS THE VILLAIN, BUT EVERYONE ELSE ACTS PRETTY LAZY IN THIS MOVIE. HAS SOME GOOD ACTION SEQUENCES. I GUESS IT'S WORTH A WATCH. BUT, YOU MIGHT NEED TO RENT THIS BEFORE YOU THINK ABOUT BUYING IT.
 GREAT MOVIE March 28, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just finished watching this movie, and I thought it was great. Good plot and characters, with a satisfying ending. The short and simple facts for this movie are, as long as you are not a person who needs constant action in a movie, you'll find it entertaining and worth your time.
 mish mash of ideas and concepts that fails badly March 4, 2004
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
its kinda easy to see how this film got made,but somewhere along the line someone shouldve said,hang on a minute,this isnt going to work.the basic plot is that a young boy (for no explained reason) has to leave africa and go and live in the hood,yo.years later he hears his father was murdered and goes to africa to bury him/find the killer.from there on in it goes a bit hazy.theres african childhood/american living clash plotlines,finding inner self type nonsense,then several more wierd plots;theres a wierd football (also known as soccer) subplot,which really doesnt make any sense at all.quite why they chose this film to contain so much football discussion is quite beyond me.other nonsense like "blacks need to be oppressed" are thrown into the mix for good measure.that particular theory i found just a teeny bit offensive,and making the generalisation that since apartheid was lifted all black people need gangsters and drug dealers to make them function properly is simply absurd.im no expert on poverty or black history,but it would seem that because of apartheid and oppression many of the black community were trapped in poverty,which bred the gangs and the drugs.to say that areas of mostly black people in some way knowingly willed gang violence and drugs onto themselves is simply wrong.why did no one see this and say,hold on a minute,this isnt right and we shouldnt be saying it? onto the casting,which is very poor.ice cube is WOEFULLY miscast as the main character in this.its simply not plausible that a 14 year old african boy would after 10 years in america suddenly turn into an all american with absolutely no african accent at all.so there you are,right from the word go this film doesnt feel right.next,why is liz hurley in this??? to boost up the T&A ratio thats why!!!! ok,thanks for the answer.but it was meant to be a rhetorical question.in the film cubes brother conveniently lives next door to his girlfriend/conveniently happens to be liz hurley/conveniently happens to be a stripper/conveniently like to answer the door in a small t shirt and pants,wear little mini skirts etc etc etc..... she plays a crack head,talk about typecasting!!!!! well her actings horrible.her african accent is terrible,you can almost see her eyeing the camera or director,with a look that says hope i look good in this shot.the writers must have thought,how do we invent scenes where she shows off a lot of flesh.hey,tell you what,why dont we put her in a miniskirt and get her to move from the front to the back seat of a car while its still driving,that way everyone can see her pants.if they were THAT interested in her as a real actress they would have sent her to make up so that she looked a realistic crack whore,rather than glamour her up to make her look pretty.do her and cube interact as characters??? no,they deliver the script with sterility normally associated with men working in a nuclear power plant. the mad gang leader is funny though,with his obsession with watching big men run around,sucking chicken feet,crack,flamboyant clothes,and for some reason delivering his lines like a rubbish dubbed kung fu actor,he provides some laughs,albeit unintentionally. i especially enjoyed the bit where him and that guy are watching the looped bit of football footage,them he goes, "mind your own business,detective inspector".....classic line,it really is!!!! all this,and they also tried an action thriller with guns etc etc etc.and as per usual,a rubbish ending ensued.within 5 minutes of murdering loads of guys,cube,crack whore hurley and some other also ran,are laughing and joking,with cube phoning his wife....the conversation is brilliant.hi dear,want to come and live in the middle of nowhere,chances are you'll die of something or other,murdered,or ill be jailed for mass murder.oh yeah,my brothers a crack head,and his girlfriends a cracked up stripper,but they're great honest.hey,she can even fire an ak 47,despite never having handled one and she was injecting heroin about an hour prior to this incident.oh yeah,i killed loads of guys. you wanna come over then???? yeah ok then,let me just finish dinner then ill be over ok dear.bye. anyway,this review has gone on quite long enough,theres a million other things wrong with this film but ive explained enough of them already.its not worth seeing at all.unless you think liz hurley is attractive,which to be honest i dont think shes that nice really.id have given it 2 stars for the fact that im sure the writers meant well with this film,but the mark is taken off for callous supermodel-unwieldy plot because of-main character but rubbish-only in it to show off her assets-nonsense. so 1 out of 5,because it is rather poor and quite insulting in many ways.
DANGEROUS GROUND Review! February 19, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ice Cube is a South-African exile who returns home after several years to bury his father. When he gets there, he finds one of his brothers fed up with the struggle of the ongoing revolution while the other is missing. After some convincing, he decides to search the streets of Johansburg for his lost brother. Along the way he comes across carjackers, racists, and his brother's crack-addict stripper girlfriend. He is eventually confronted by a psychotic drug boss who demands that he pay his brother's debt or bury him. This leads to a bullet-filled final act with Cube taking out everyone in sight. Neither excellent nor terrible, "Dangerous Ground" is about as big a mixed bag as it gets. Cube gives a solid performance, Hurley is really easy on the eyes, and the story shows heart but never remains consistent. There are a handful of entertaining moments and small attempts to display a social concience but the film never really realizes its full potentiol. Most of the key dramatic sequences aren't played up enough and the action elements are equally underplayed.
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