Brandon Lee’s penultimate picture isn’t much on paper--a dour college kid, bitter over his activist father’s death in Tiananmen Square, is targeted by a Chicago mobster after witnessing a gangland killing and reluctantly joins forces with brooding, obsessed cop Powers Boothe--but then who was watching this for the story? Consider this his screen test for the superior The Crow. Lee bites off bad dialogue with surly sneers, swaggers through scenes with the confidence of a movie veteran, and moves... well, his moves are the real reason to see the film. Nick Mancuso has a good time as the weasely mobster getting sloppy in his desperation, and Powers plays the father figure with less conviction than sheer tenacity, but Brandon Lee is the star-in-the-making of this production. This, unfortunately, is no star vehicle, but it provides enough bone-crunching, butt-kicking martial arts action for any action junkie. --Sean Axmaker
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Although college student Jake Lo has become a pacifist, he's forced once again to use his martial arts skills when vicious gangsters come after him.
Jake has sworn off violence ever since he witnessed his father's murder during the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre in China. But now, after seeing mobsters carry out a hit, he must spring into action to keep himself from becoming their next victim.
He enlists the aid of tough, veteran Chicago cop Mace Ryan and his equally determined female partner who are both out to stop the heroin-smuggling criminals for good.
But will this outnumbered trio of heroes be able to defeat the army of mobsters?
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