Dangerous Ground soon abandons its culture-clash promise for the banal Hollywood Actioner approach. A real shame, because there's a potentially engrossing film in here, a movie that's much better than the routine sleaze and violence we end up with. Yes, interesting points are thrown up along the way - we see more of South Africa (the nightclubs, the high-rises, the native townships) than most of us are used to, and even get some feeling of how drugs, gangs and black-on-black crime is in danger of undoing post-apartheid good will. But you'd expect more of writer/director Roodt: this, after all, is the man who brought us Cry The Beloved Country.
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