| Jean Claude VanDamme stars in Hong Kong film directed by Tsui Hark, who is
supposed to have talent. Well there's lots of action and fighting here, to
be sure, but the editing is pretty shoddy, and the sound is atrocious. Parts
of the film were dubbed, and other parts weren't. It was amusing to see
Rob Schneider play an action role though. Tsui Hark did better in last year's
"Double Team". The plot? A couple of guys selling knock-off products in
Hong Kong get in trouble with some terrorists who plant "nano-bombs" the
size of buttons in their products. Basically though it's a just a vehicle
for the martial arts, gunfights, and explosions. The fight scenes would
have been better if we could actually see what was going on; sometimes the
editing massacres the scene and you miss parts. Other times it works well.
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