肉票不是人

　　《天启大爆炸》以中国古代曾真实发生的神秘爆炸为原型，加以天马行空的巧妙构思，为观众解封至今困惑世人的隐秘真相。神秘机构“夜行司”追踪离奇谜团勇闯“无相城”，一场关乎百姓苍生命运博弈就此展开。

唐僧（薛梅康饰）想要只身一人下山化缘，遭到了孙悟空（吴文超饰）的阻拦。然而，唐僧却并没有听徒弟的警告，一意孤行，结果在化缘途中遇见了居住在盘丝洞里的蜘蛛精（殷明珠饰）。蜘蛛精将唐僧捉住盘丝洞，想要献给大王，孙悟空久久不见师父归来，出发寻找。猪八戒亦邂逅了盘丝洞里的众美艳女妖，受到了女妖们的魅惑，鬼迷心窍的猪八戒放松了警惕，结果也被妖怪们抓获。孙悟空来到盘丝洞和众妖们展开了激烈的战斗，然寡不敌众，在这一紧要关头，观世音菩萨现身，教给了孙悟空一套降妖除魔之术。重装上阵的孙悟空再战群妖，并且最终获得了胜利。

　　Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop?
　　Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller.
　　The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narration/voice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters.
　　Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppie/violence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with "black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge.
　　However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.