Product Details

• Actors: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Thokozani Nkosi, Ron Smerczak, Wilson Dunster
• Directors: Darrell Roodt
• Writers: Darrell Roodt, Greg Latter
• Producers: Ice Cube, Darrell Roodt, Gillian Gorfil, Helena Spring, Patricia Charbonnet
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English, Zulu
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 3, 1998
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304449305
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #689,671 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

An odd combination of consciousness-raising and run-of-the-mill action, Dangerous Ground features Ice Cube, mostly unbelievably, as a one-time South African native named Vusi. Vusi came to America at age 14 to escape police repression, and eventually reinvented himself as an American scholar and community-oriented volunteer. Called back to the old country to bury his father, Vusi discovers the new South Africa under Mandela, but also gets a snootful of the nation's surge in crime and drug usage. Sent to Johannesburg to retrieve a long-missing brother, Vusi allies himself with a coke-addicted stripper (Elizabeth Hurley) who knows the vanished man. The script and direction by Darrell James Roodt (Cry, the Beloved Country) seems to be serving various masters: viewers interested in epochal changes in South Africa, and viewers who want to kick back and watch a suspense movie about drugs, a hooker, and a nasty crime lord (Ving Rhames). The result is unwieldy, and Cube's thumping performance doesn't do much to bridge the gap. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad at all, April 10, 2000

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"donnee" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Ground (DVD)

I'm going to be quite candid with this review.

What I liked most about this film is that it wasn't too political, or preachy,and it was a movie set in Africa that thankfully remained in civilization and didn't dwell on stereotypical jungles and bushmen. This movie was all about action and fun and didn't try to sit on a soapbox about South Africa's troubles like some of the disappointed viewers of this movie wanted it to do. Ice Cube always plays himself in his movies, but it worked for "Dangerous Ground". And Hurley was a good sport in this one while playing Ice Cube's "Bond Girl". "Dangerous Ground" is not a memorable film (You can see by the fact that only four people have bothered to review it so far). But its a breath of fresh air when all of the other movies involving Africa features nothing but overdone plots involving bigotry, proverty, or jungles. I give mad props to the filmmakers for this.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 3:am film, January 30, 2000

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A customer "mistermaxxx" (usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dangerous Ground [VHS] (VHS Tape)

this film is a bad joke.who can act in this film? Ice Cube is himself.nothing new here.Elizabeth Hurley is very bland.also due to Hollywoods Racial hangups what happen to the sparks between Cube&Hurley? not a very believable film in any way.one of those 3:am films at best.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars DANGEROUS GROUND Review!, February 18, 2004

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Crazy Jim (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dangerous Ground (DVD)

Ice Cube is a South-African exile who returns home after several years to bury his father. When he gets there, he finds one of his brothers fed up with the struggle of the ongoing revolution while the other is missing. After some convincing, he decides to search the streets of Johansburg for his lost brother. Along the way he comes across carjackers, racists, and his brother's crack-addict stripper girlfriend. He is eventually confronted by a psychotic drug boss who demands that he pay his brother's debt or bury him. This leads to a bullet-filled final act with Cube taking out everyone in sight.

Neither excellent nor terrible, "Dangerous Ground" is about as big a mixed bag as it gets. Cube gives a solid performance, Hurley is really easy on the eyes, and the story shows heart but never remains consistent. There are a handful of entertaining moments and small attempts to display a social concience but the film never really realizes its full potentiol. Most of the key dramatic sequences aren't played up enough and the action elements are equally underplayed.