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- 1993
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1993
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Summary Four friends on their way to a boxing match get caught in heavy traffic, so they take a shortcut in order to get there faster, unfortunately it leads to them witnessing a murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Directed By: Stephen Hopkins
Written By: Lewis Colick, Jere Cunningham
- 1993
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 1993
- R
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Judgment Night
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6.5
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Summary Four friends on their way to a boxing match get caught in heavy traffic, so they take a shortcut in order to get there faster, unfortunately it leads to them witnessing a murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Directed By: Stephen Hopkins
Written By: Lewis Colick, Jere Cunningham
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
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73% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
46
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
73% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
18% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The movie moves at a relentless clip, and the characters react intelligently enough to their situation to make it crackling good entertainment -- with bite. [15 Oct 1993, p.G5]
Given the opportunities for gratuitous mayhem, director Stephen Hopkins, working from a script by Lewis Colick, is reasonably restrained. He’s aided by his cinematographer, Peter Levy, who gets some real variation out of what might have been undifferentiated darkness.
An exciting, although pointless, race through the dark and menacing streets of Chicago's West Side.
Judgment Night is almost completely lacking in conviction and originality. But Leary does a fair Dennis Hopper imitation, Gooding does his best with an insulting role, and the ending is witty enough not to give us the undying villain it leads us to expect. [15 Oct 1993, p.D27]
This is an exceedingly well directed, cleverly filmed and edited, tension-filled affair. It is also a wholly preposterous, muddled, paranoid's view of the inner-city nightmare where the slightest misstep is sure to have a fateful result.
Perhaps the ultimate "Judgment" comes from Estevez, who observes: "Nothing about tonight makes sense."
Basically a rehashing of previous genre films, Hopkins borrows heavily from such superior efforts as Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers (minus that film's gang motif, natch) hoping that no one will notice.
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