Synopsis
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella
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Cast
- Wesley SnipesJimmy Mercer
- Dennis HopperRudolph 'Red' Diamond
- Lolita DavidovichVikki Dunbar
- Viggo MortensenRonnie
- Seymour CasselVirgil Leach
- Jonathan BanksMax Waxman
- Christine EliseCarol
- Tony Lo BiancoTony Dio
- Valerie PerrineMona
- James TolkanLevitt
Recommendations
- 80
Los Angeles Times
Boiling Point is taut and crisp, and when it’s required, Harris handles violence with swift dispatch rather than the large-scale fireworks that have become de rigueur. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Boiling Point is taut and crisp, and when it’s required, Harris handles violence with swift dispatch rather than the large-scale fireworks that have become de rigueur. - 60
Variety
Low-key and bland in the extreme, it’s strictly for film buffs. - 60
Time Out
Director Harris's strength is his ability to flesh out routine crime scenarios with credibly motivated characters, adding emotional depth and texture to familiar generic pleasures. That said, Snipes never quite finds the measure of his role; so, despite Hopper's unusually funny and warm performance, the final impression is tepid. - 60
Chicago Reader
Boiling Point essentially plays with and parodies the principle of symmetrically matching sound bites in order to create rhymes and continuities in its parallel plots. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Ambitious thriller, which never quite lives up to its aspirations or its cast. - 60
Orlando Sentinel
Basically, it's like a standard TV cop show with better-than-average acting and a few brief scenes of violence that would be too extreme to pass network standards...The word that comes to mind is generic. - 60
Variety
Low-key and bland in the extreme, it’s strictly for film buffs.
