Has not aged well.

as a whole its a pretty bad movie, but sliced apart, there are some pretty brilliant scenes in it (the finger cutting scene is pretty good, andy garcia's execution looks amazing, etc, etc), but they dont match together as well as they probably should, too many things in it lack originality, every single character in it for starters, making it an unbereable watch for anyone

the movie never gained substancial praise or any type of cult following to make a directors cut version (unlike Legend, for example), its just one of Scott's bad movies all in all, lets just hope american ganster doesnt come up like black rain

Dead wrong. Go watch replacment killers if you want a bad film.

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I think it's a great film. I also think that, depsite Michael Douglas' mullet, it has aged remarkably well.

Yes there is a racist subtext in several parts. Nick's early comment about nips is quite painful (as is the karaoke scene, but that's something else entirely) when you're not in the mood for casual/comedy racism. Still, in the context of the film (American maverick goes to Japan, teaches Japanese buddy to break the law), it tends to work.

At the film's heart, it's 80s Action. Very glossy 80s Action; it is brilliantly shot and the viiolence is done with style - just like his broter in The Last Boy Scout, Ridley makes every death count, with lots of truly glorious squibs.

Also, it should be noted that I think this is one of Hans Zimmer's best scores; you can hear a lot of it in True Romance years later, and also more I'm sure.

Anyway, a fantastic film.

"Give a guy a gun he thinks he's Superman, give him two he thinks he's God!"

Sorry, I only read the first couple of posts (too lazy)

But for me, this film has aged quite well. I can see where the original poster thinks that some of the aspects of this film have become so "cliched" by modern times. But does that mean you should shoot down the original? If it wasn't such a cliche at the time of this movies release, then the movie shouldn't take blame for everyone else in hollywood copying it's styles.

The reason I say this movie has aged well, in my opinion of course, is that I only recently (within the last couple of years) saw this film, for the first time. I thought it was quite a well done and entertaining movie, and I was surprised as: A. I don't have alot of respect for these types of films from this time era, and B. I'm not a big Mike Douglas fan. But this film was surprising really good to me and very entertaining. So I say it has aged well, I remember when watching it, I thought that it was still a rather new movie, and wondered how it passed my radar (except Mr. Douglas looking so young kinda tipped me off). And I was surprised to find out how old this movie was. I guess it was the clothing many of the characters wore didn't seem overly dated.

Well, MR. "nbtana"

My thoughts excactly on the Yakuza, I'm a big fan of them.
Did you see WAR?

Anyways, It's like this

To properly enjoy this Classic "80's STYLE COP FLICK" (a forgotten genre), one must watch it with four simple 'make believe rules' that aply in this 'make believe Tokyo' in this 'make believe world'.

1)The Yakuza runs Tokyo and therefore owns the cops.
2)The Yakuza asked for permission to kill "NICK" but they said, "Are you crazy, Do you remember how this country got Black Rain to begin with."
-So they just killed the minority cop cause they know the American's wouldn't make a big fuss about that.
3)The cops had to play it off and pretend they're not on the payroll of The Yakuza cause they wanted to look better than American Police,
-they obviously don't know that American Police are under payroll also.
4)The Yakuza didn't want to kill Sato because of the "Plate".

It is a little outdated, or a little over the top, especially when it comes to the view of how Japan's big city police officers are

Actually japanese police are about as opposite of Douglas' character as you can get - Takakura Ken's depiction is spot on (outside the Rambo and karaoke scenes)

I think it aged very well, one of the most beautiful movies i have seen. As most of ridley scott's film it suffers from a sort of weak screenplay, but as always his directing and the fantastic art direction more than compensates this flaw. They dont make movies like this anymore, what a shame.