I fail to understand how people can not like this movie. It has Dolph Lundgren AND Brandon Lee AND yakuza AND was directed by Mark L. Lester (the director of the Arnie classic 'Commando'). What more do you want? Maybe some people want more plot and acting, but these are the probably the same people I was talking about in my review of Van Damme's 'Cyborg'.
Dolph plays Detective Kenner, a very angry cop who has a tendency to beat up any yakuza in sight, coincidentally alienating all of his partners until his forced to pair up with Johnny Murata (the late, great Brandon Lee), and the two go around kicking yakuza-arse together. The yakuza are running drugs, and the head-honcho Yoshida (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), just happened to be the man who murdered Kenner's parents.
So maybe the plot is weak, and the acting not much better, but who cares when Dolph and Brandon are kicking arse, and leaving a high body count behind them? Good action scenes, and some great one-liners from Brandon Lee, granted none of them are as classic as Arnie's "remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied!" from 'Commando'. At less than 80 minutes, it doesn't get boring and provides an effective way of killing some time.
Of course, its only for true action fans (and if you don't like Dolph Lundgren, you are not a true action fan).
7/10
Dolph plays Detective Kenner, a very angry cop who has a tendency to beat up any yakuza in sight, coincidentally alienating all of his partners until his forced to pair up with Johnny Murata (the late, great Brandon Lee), and the two go around kicking yakuza-arse together. The yakuza are running drugs, and the head-honcho Yoshida (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), just happened to be the man who murdered Kenner's parents.
So maybe the plot is weak, and the acting not much better, but who cares when Dolph and Brandon are kicking arse, and leaving a high body count behind them? Good action scenes, and some great one-liners from Brandon Lee, granted none of them are as classic as Arnie's "remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied!" from 'Commando'. At less than 80 minutes, it doesn't get boring and provides an effective way of killing some time.
Of course, its only for true action fans (and if you don't like Dolph Lundgren, you are not a true action fan).
7/10