Product Details

• Actors: Courtney B Vance, Virginia Madsen
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• DVD Release Date: June 5, 2007
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000NA21PY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #68,924 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description

A Klan leader has been murdered, and the only witness to the slaughter is the victim's son - young and burning with racist hatred. Now the county's only black cop stands accused, and whoever killed the Klan leader wants them both dead in this explosive thriller.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Miscasting ambushes this action flick!, April 8, 2009

By	Craig Edwards "Media Guy" (By the sea in NC) - See all my reviews

Ambushed (1998) A terrific supporting cast can't make up for a miscast star in this racially charged action drama. Courtney B. Vance is supposed to be playing a tough but fair cop who gets mixed up in a huge white supremacist conspiracy while trying to protect the son of a murdered KKK leader. But Mr. Vance is far too soft and sensitive for this role, no matter how many guns director Ernest Dickerson has him fire. Other than Vance, everyone else is right at home, including William Forsythe (Direct Hit), Robert Patrick (TV's The Unit), Virginia Madsen (The Haunting in Connecticut), William Sadler (Die Hard 2), David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman), and the late Charles Hallahan (The Thing '82),to whom the film is dedicated. Also of note are the performances of lesser known but very effective Scott Simpson (New Best Friend), J. Michael Hunter (New Best Friend), and William Flaman as the henchmen of villainous Patrick. This would have been a terrific vehicle for Wesley Snipes; as it is, it's merely passable. Still, you could do worse with that supporting cast.