Strange Days

Angela Bassett as Lornette 'Mace' Mason

Strange Days is an OK semi-sci-fi movie. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow who also directed Hurt Locker. It's kind of old (1995) and kind of long. It's got every standard crime movie bit: Ex-cops, good cops, bad cops, thugs. It's like a warm up for Blade Runner, except it came afterwards. It predates eXistenZ, which has a lot of the same virtual reality "technology". It has a whole bunch of faces I recognized from other movies, though I didn't know all their names.

Angela Bassett	Can't say as I recognized her. I have known about her for what seems like forever, but I don't know why. Maybe someone mentioned her to me a thousand years ago.
Vincent D'Onofrio	recently famous as Detective Robert Goren on Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Richard Edson	Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Platoon
William Fichtner	Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight, Armageddon, Crash
Ralph Fiennes	The English Patient, The Constant Gardener, In Bruges, Maid in Manhattan, Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies.
Juliette Lewis	The Way of the Gun, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, From Dusk to Dawn
Tom Sizemore	Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Get Carter, Bringing Out the Dead, Saving Private Ryan, Enemy of the State.
Michael Wincott	The Count of Monte Cristo, Seraphim Falls

Vincent gets around, and he plays some odd characters, most of which I didn't realize were him until somebody else (usually my older son) pointed them out to me. Characters like Edgar (the bug) in Men In Black, and Private Leonard Lawrence (can't do anything right thumb sucker) in Full Metal Jacket.

This makes three movies in a row that I watched this week had a white male lead and a non-white female lead. Must be the miscegenation week. Yee-haw!

Update March 2020 replaced missing picture, added labels.
Update June 2020. Here is a link to a later post about this movie.