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With a cast including legends Cary Tagawa (mortal kombat), the amazing Bolo Yeung (bloodsport, double impact, enter the dragon), Tommy Lister (fifth element, Friday), mike Madsen (any Tarantino film pretty much) and Don Wilson (tons of (90s action movies). Armand Assante and Peter o tool are prolly the movies biggest know actors.
This cast is AWESOME. Lemme go on record and say I was so happy to see BOLO Yeung back. Guess what? He has about 5 minutes of screen time. I swear I caught him standing, sleeping in the background.
This movie is basically an Armand Assante fest. He has some of the most screen time. Which is fine, but with such a big supporting cast, why no use them.
They kill off Tommy Lister, Peter o tool and mike madsen with in minutes of them making an appearance. Cary Tagawa is prolly the movies best performance. He's really ruthless but he's only in it for about a third of the movie.
So on to the movie: it try's very hard to be super stylistic and it does succeed sometimes but most of the time it borderlines dumb. The budget is obviously low and it really shows with what the movie sets out to do. The story is passable and with a bigger budget, could have been pretty cool in the hands of a better team. There is a pretty annoying love story thrown in the mix also, which is pretty much just cringe worthy and though to watch at some points.
The cast is really good but underutilized and it's sort of grind house style of goes for would have been so much better if a better team was behind it. I think it's worth a watch, but you prolly won't have any interest in watching it again.
With a cast including legends Cary Tagawa (mortal kombat), the amazing Bolo Yeung (bloodsport, double impact, enter the dragon), Tommy Lister (fifth element, Friday), mike Madsen (any Tarantino film pretty much) and Don Wilson (tons of (90s action movies). Armand Assante and Peter o tool are prolly the movies biggest know actors.
This cast is AWESOME. Lemme go on record and say I was so happy to see BOLO Yeung back. Guess what? He has about 5 minutes of screen time. I swear I caught him standing, sleeping in the background.
This movie is basically an Armand Assante fest. He has some of the most screen time. Which is fine, but with such a big supporting cast, why no use them.
They kill off Tommy Lister, Peter o tool and mike madsen with in minutes of them making an appearance. Cary Tagawa is prolly the movies best performance. He's really ruthless but he's only in it for about a third of the movie.
So on to the movie: it try's very hard to be super stylistic and it does succeed sometimes but most of the time it borderlines dumb. The budget is obviously low and it really shows with what the movie sets out to do. The story is passable and with a bigger budget, could have been pretty cool in the hands of a better team. There is a pretty annoying love story thrown in the mix also, which is pretty much just cringe worthy and though to watch at some points.
The cast is really good but underutilized and it's sort of grind house style of goes for would have been so much better if a better team was behind it. I think it's worth a watch, but you prolly won't have any interest in watching it again.