Otherwise War grimly accumulates on the screen with its badly staged gunfights, car chases, slow motion overhead tracking shots of city streets, and clichéd dialogue. I did like one scene where Japanese model Devon Aiko’s character threatens two uppity thugs in her mobster dad’s gang by placing a knife to the throat of one and a gun to the forehead of the other, and then calmly asking for a chef salad without the blue cheese. As the bodies accumulate, Jack Crawford traces the Rogue’s movements by keeping track of his fancy titanium bullet shells. When someone claims that the Rogue has betrayed one side, he just says “I have no master.” For those who come to see Jet Li’s martial arts skills, he shows off precious little of them, perhaps to save himself the trouble. By playing to both sides of rival gangs, he can kill with impunity and profit from each mob’s attempts to get him to side with them. This action earns him the support of the mob boss of the Yakuzos, but then he lures a bunch of them underneath the spaghetti freeway at night with his motorcycle, and then shoots them down.īasically, the Rogue uses the time-honored technique of Clint Eastwood’s gun slinger in A Fistful of Dollars. At first, the Chinese Triads and the Japanese Yakuzos get along just fine, but then Rogue infiltrates a go-go bar and ties a bomb to the collar of a Doberman guard dog, thereby blowing up some of the Triads. Jack waits three years for the possible killer, a mythical Rogue (a serene-looking Jet Li) to resurface in the San Francisco underworld of Chinese and Japanese mob bosses. In War, however, Statham plays FBI agent Jack Crawford, who is drearily obsessed with avenging the murder of his partner Tom Lone (Terry Chen).
DEJA VU SONG WITH JET LI MOVIE
In his most recent film, Crank, Statham needed to maintain an adrenaline rush to not die from poison, but in its amoral way that movie had giddy moments when he would deliberately crash a motorcycle while dressed in a hospital gown, gobble down speed pills, lick cocaine off the floor, or jolt himself with a defibrillator to keep his heart functioning. With his British accent and his Bruce Willis squint, Statham somehow manages to make male pattern baldness look cool.
I admit to a weakness for the Transporter series, in part because they were written by Luc Besson, an excellent French director, and also because they combine wit, visual flair, and playful violence.
DEJA VU SONG WITH JET LI HOW TO
He has never starred in anything especially good, but in his B movie world of action flicks, he knows how to clench his jaw and evade bursts of machine gun fire with proper nonchalance.
Up until now, I usually liked Jason Statham’s work. I should have known not to go see this film because the studio did not allow reviewers to see it early, but I went, suffered, and nearly fell asleep several times, even as the sound of gunfights would occasionally jolt me awake. In 2007, Lions Gate released War, which pits Jason Statham against the Jet Li in a bloody extravaganza of epic drivel.
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