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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780780627833
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780627830
Label: New Line Home Video
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Line Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 23, 1999
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 58706
Studio: New Line Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 12, 1997
Editorial Review:
Description:
Ice Cube and Elizabeth Hurley in the tale of a South African freedom fighter who returns home after 14 years in exile for his father's funeral. Apartheid is over, but now the drug wars are destroying his people...and his brother is missing in action.
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Ok from a man who lived in Africa.
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?
Rating: - YOUR AVERAGE ACTION MOVIE
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.
Rating:  - GREAT MOVIE
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.
Rating:  - mish mash of ideas and concepts that fails badly
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 ... Read More
Rating: - DANGEROUS GROUND Review!
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 ... Read More
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