11-10-2013, 09:12 AM
This boasts Pitbull, who only appears in a small cameo, and one of the last appearances of Gordon Liu before his stroke. Gordon has a minor yet pivotal role as a Shaolin monk. He speaks English and does a short Kung Fu scene, but it's hardly enough. The lead is Zheng Liu, who glowers about doing his best Bruce impersonation. It's Colombian drug dealers vs. Chinese drug dealers with some tattooed bikers tossed in. The film wants to be Scarface meets Enter the Dragon but misses by a mile. Forget dialog - this flick goes for the record number of F-bombs. All of the women are victims. There's a lot of CGI effects used for shotgun blasts to the face, flying needle darts and shattered glass. Having just seen Jackie's Police Story 1 again, which is an orgy of real shattering glass, BM just doesn't measure up. The fights are very mediocre - no impact - and the staffs are so rubbery, they look like swimming pool noodles. If someone would just edit together all of Gordon's scenes and post that on YouTube, that would extract all of the value from this film.
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