Post by stefancrosscoe on Oct 14, 2017 11:25:34 GMT
"We've got a problem here. There are more bad guys than we've got bullets."
In a desperate attempt of trying to find an answer on how to deal with the ruthless Japanese crime syndicate of the Los Angeles underworld, the LAPD decides to bring in two very different kind of police officers. Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) an martial art expert with a tragic background from Japan along with his new and much more laidback, street-tough city cop partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee). This unlikely duo is set up in order to use their skills and knowledge to infiltrate and find a way to stop the Yakuza, but first they must do something far more dangerous and that is to find a way of getting along without killing each other.
A "hidden" early 90s gem when it comes to action films and specially buddy-cop releases, where we get to see Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee team up against the ruthless the Yakuza led by the menacing Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as a sadistic crime boss who likes to rape and behead beautiful young women and who in the brutal part as Funekei Yoshida is later on revealed as the reason behind a tragic history that have a link up with Chris Kenner (Lundgren).
In all of the chaos, the always stunning Tia Carrere shows up as Minako Okeya another victim of Yoshida's nasty lifestyle and who ends up becoming a part of the team to go up against the Yakuza.
Directed by Mark L. Lester this is maybe not a "great" film, however it is filled with lots of fun and ridiculous over-the-top scenes, fights, one-liners along with many familiar faces and as mentioned Tia Carrere.
I really liked the chemistry between Dolph and Brandon, they were a great team, and Brandon had some hilarious lines, which I had to almost skip back the first time I saw, thinking "Did he just say what I think he did?" and it just added on to the laughable but funny plot and characters.
Anyway, the only "downpart" is that the film only last for about 76 minutes but that is just nitpicking, as the pace and story works very well.
As with any self-respectable buddy-cop action films, this one also comes along with explosive action and over-the-top fight scenes, torture scenes, female nudity, lots of swearing, violence, car chases, stereotypical henchmen, ridiculous lines and of course its very own deep and moving training montage.
"Kenner, just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you, you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man."
