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A totally fun movie from beginning to end, Jackie. Mark Dacascos' best starring role. He plays Toby Wong, an experimental patient with a hyper drive piece of equipment in his body. He goes renegade from his keepers in Asia and stows away on a boat to San Francisco to meet with some American buyers who will pay $5 mil for the device. While on the run, he meets Malik (Kadeem Hardison), a down-on-his-luck songwriter and "kidnaps" him as a ride to escape the now-descending baddies.
This qualifies as an action-comedy: the stuff of Jackie Chan, Arnold S. and some Stallone ("Demolition Man" and "Tango and Cash"). Hardison supplies the comedy spouting comical lines even getting the usually serious Dacascos in on the fun. The sexy Brittany Murphy, (who looks like a skinny crackwhore junkie in recent movies like "8 Mile" and "Just Married"), looks like a hottie as a vixen-ish brunette, co-stars as a motel manager who adds some cute and funny scenes.
But it's Dacascos' action scenes that make this movie amazing. The son of a world renowned martial arts instructor, Dacascos is obviously one of his father's best pupil. His skills are legitimate and the choreography is a ballet of swinging fists and flying kicks. In one scene, he does a backflip from a second story balcony onto the ground below. This is done in one shot and he turns toward the camera in such a way as to prove this is no stunt double. Though it does boast wire work, "Drive" is pure entertainment in the mode of some of Jackie Chan's best work. Dacoscos even drops Sammo Hung's name when being questioned by the police.
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oxblood 29 November 2004
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