Ricochet (1991)

	Directed by: Russell Mulcahy	COUNTRY USA GENRE Action/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Ricochet RUNNING TIME 102 minutes
	Produced by: Joel Silver Michael Levy
	Written by: Steven E. De Souza

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Nick Styles	Denzel Washington	½
Earl Talbot Blake	John Lithgow	½
Odessa	Ice-T
Larry	Kevin Pollak	½
Priscilla	Lindsay Wagner	½
Kim	Josh Evans
Gail Wallens	Mary Ellen Trainor	-
Alice Styles	Victoria Dillard	-
Reverend Styles	John Amos	-

Review

Few actors are more fun to watch when they're balancing that fine line between tense realism and outrageous excess than John Lithgow (The World According to Garp, Raising Cain). In the 1991 action-thriller Ricochet, he's more concerned with the fun than the balance, but he somehow makes his stereotypical movie psycho Earl Talbot Blake work for large parts of this otherwise ultimately silly movie. There is an outline of a taut police procedural in here, and Denzel Washington really goes out on a limb in the lead as the flamboyant police officer Nick Styles, but director Russell Mulcahy exhibits a carelessness in his work and the picture turns more and more ridiculous as it approaches the finish line. Ice-T is rather incompetent in the role as Washington's old rival Odessa, and the rest of the supporting cast aren't much better.