Judgment Night (1993)

Release date: 1993-10-15
Country: Japan|USA
Language: English
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Production Co: Largo Entertainment, JVC Entertainment Networks
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 6.6/10
Length: 1h 50min

Storyline

Four pals are on their way to a boxing match, but get stuck in heavy traffic. To get to the boxing match in time they take the first exit they find to find another way to the venue. As they are driving around lost in gang-land they get stuck and witness a brutal murder. The killer wants no witnesses and tries to kill them too. The four pals get away the first time, but the killer is soon back on their tail again while they are trying to find help in the middle of nowhere.

Plot Keywords

murder, exploding car, drowning, desperation, death, corpse, climbing through a window, cigarette smoking, childhood friend, character says i love you, cell phone, car set on fire, car crash, falling from height, falling to death, husband wife relationship, homeless person, hit by a car, held at gunpoint, gunshot wound

Short Review

This is an exceedingly well directed, cleverly filmed and edited, tension-filled affair. It is also a wholly preposterous, muddled, paranoid view of the inner-city nightmare where the slightest misstep is sure to have a fateful result.