Red Corner

(MGM)

Richard Gere is his usual smug self as Jack Moor, a media maverick trying to cut a blockbuster telecasting deal with the powers that be in the Chinese government. After a night of steamy passion with a beautiful model (which he can barely remember), Jack winds up in jail for murder. Bai Ling is a delightful new face as Gere's court-appointed attorney, but even her effervescence is dissipated by the wooden, ill-placed, almost risible dialogue.