
In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and ... (Full plot summary below)
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In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and what follows is a violent series of events that destroys Styles' career. This sets the stage for one last bloody duel between Styles and Blake.
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| Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas"Ricochet" is genuinely scary, suspenseful and disturbing in the best sense. |
| VarietyVariety StaffA taut, twisty urban suspenser powered by the spring-loaded performance of Denzel Washington in his first major action role, Ricochet has a nasty streak and a tendency toward implausible excess. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarRicochet is genuinely scary, suspenseful and disturbing in the best sense. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyAs with other Silver-smithed projects, this one is almost frighteningly competent at bashing heads and pushing all the right buttons. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldDynamite action. This is a good bet for a night with the lads. And weedy girlies can at least wake up every ten minutes when Denz takes his top off. |
| Empire MagazineKim NewmanDynamite action. This is a good bet for a night with the lads. And weedy girlies can at least wake up every ten minutes when Denz takes his top off. |
| Time OutStephen GarrettMulcahy's slasher-thriller manages to be as entertaining as it is improbable and violent. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksEvery now and then a movie comes along that is so preposterous, so devoid of any reality or logic, you have to wonder how it got made. |
| New York TimesJanet MaslinThe screenplay, by Steven E. de Souza (whose credits include the Die Hard movies), contains many glib, obscene wisecracks, plus the misinformation that Anna Karenina was Tolstoy's first book. |
| Rolling StoneBilge EbiriWashington strikes the right tone of cocksure bravery as it turns into bewilderment, psychosis, and rage as the movie goes through its many wild twists and turns. |