Excellent movie for it's time but SO racist Lee Tamahori did an excellent job making this film. Most 90's fare comes off as 90's cheese - this is a rare gem from that era. But one arena where it seemed to backslide was the standard, passive aggressively racist storyline. In the 80's black men would be included in an ensemble piece solely to be killed off. See for yourself. Hollywood loves killing black men and the more elaborate, gross, cruel and gory the death, the better. Sadly, this film fell for that as well as all manor of white peopling. Whitesplaining, and white savioring. Harold Perrineau did the best job an actor could playing such a role. But the Blackmerican Diaspora has a long way to go to overcome Hollywood's wellspring of racist nonsense.
But this film is very well done so I'd recommend it.