Danger

When you leave the theater, the background score is pounding away in your head – and while you have a beatific smile on your face, all the zip and action of Danger is still spinning full-tilt inside. The pick-up and momentum of the film are so dramatic, it's like jumping off a running train when the movie stops. You are still speeding when you exit.

Perhaps one lesson to be learnt from Danger is that often technical brilliance is all there is to movie-making. This story could have been about a couple of lovers, or a bunch of college-goers, like it is, and the rest of the ....