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Synopsis:
Two
young cops, Darren and Alex watch the charity event, and suddenly
an assassination occurs. Alex follows the assassin and suspects
the beautiful woman, Norika, with move of taking something off
from the victim's jacket pocket. Actually, she's a Japanese Interpol
Interpol Agent. Darren and Alex try to save Norika who is trapped.
But in the midst of the bullet showers, Alex dies heroically.
Darren on a quest to save Norika and revenge for Alex, he pursues
them relentlessly and defeats the gang in a high -octane action
sequence involving helicopters and fights on a large glass panel?
DVD EXTRAS:
Includes the trailer, making-of, DTS
soundtrack.
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None
that I know of
DVD REVIEW:
This film directed by
"Rumble in the Bronx" director Stanley Tong is meant to
be an International film. With US based martial artist Mark
Dacascos, hip hop artist Coolio, Hong Kong singer and action star
Aaron Kwok and Japan's currently popular & beautiful actress
Norika Fujiwara.
One of the problems
when an HK film tries to go International with multiple stars is
the usage of broken English. In this case, it may disturb
people.
The movie is not bad,
it's pretty fun to watch. In the DVD case, the English
subtitles have too many errors and hope whoever is licensing it in
the US to fix them up. For example, Coolio says "Like
the Real Deal, Holyfield". In the subtitles, "Like
the Real Deal, Holy Deal". I'm guessing the subtitler
had to subtitle by ear.
As for the video and
audio, it's pretty good. Being one of the newer DVD's out
with DTS, it's all good! Now, as for special features, there
is a making-of 20-minute featurette in the actor's main language
but it's not subtitled in English but in Chinese.
So, all in all the
movie is good if not taken seriously. You have to respect
the actors because they actually did a lot of their stunts which
is shocking. To see the ending credits and see Fujiwara get
hurt was a shock. You would think that they would of used a
stuntwoman. The fault lies in the presentation of the DVD
with problems with the English subtitles and the lack of
subtitling on the featurette.
THE MOVIE: B-
THE DVD EXTRAS: C
THE DVD OVERALL: C
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