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These comments refer to the director's cut. I hadn't even heard of this film until shortly before the date of this review. The only things I'd seen Mark Dacascos in before this were the underrated Crying Freeman and a forgettable Predator clone, the name of which escapes me. On the evidence of this he should be current box-office top chop-socky star and I look forward to the imminent UK rental release of Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Plot and acting don't matter in this. If you like a good fight, this will not disappoint. Dacascos is obviously super-fit, and performs with an athletic grace that clapped-out Van Damme probably wishes he had. That would mean nothing, of course, without the martial arts choreography, and this has some of the best I've seen. My favourite sequence involves Dacascos in a tiny room with a bunch of men with stun-batons and they can't even touch him. I bought this without having seen it, on the strength of other reviews on this site. It does not disappoint; it has a quality sadly lacking in most films these days replay value.
score 8/10
Adpag 27 July 2002
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