China O'Brien (1990)
4/10
Walking Tall meets Roadhouse.....
24 August 2014
Warning: Spoilers
China O'brien, city police woman and martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge and head home to the small town where she grew up.

The town she knew is now struggling against the clutches of organised crime.

When her father, who also happens to be the town sheriff, is killed, China decides to run for his position and clean up the town.

The poll results spark a series of confrontations that decides who runs the town . . .

I used to love this movie when I was younger. I was thirteen when this was first released, and it was at the height of the straight to video action surge we had in the late eighties, and early nineties. So it wasn't uncommon for films called 'king Of The Kickboxers', 'Martial Law', and 'Tiger Claws' to be really popular movies.

But, as I've said already, I was young, and seeing the movie over twenty years ago, hasn't done me any favours in the nostalgia department.

The main problem is, is that the film just isn't any good, and seeing and reviewing thousands of films,you realise that it was just a rehash of several other films, to get a prolific martial artist a movie deal.

Van Damme, Seagal, and even Billy Blanks had an air of panache of them, but Rothrock looks like the P.E teacher from school you fancied, because you know you wouldn't stand a chance with the fit one.

Fight scenes are poor, and the acting is also pretty bad.

Nevermind, at least I'll never make mistake of recommending this film to anyone, like I did when I was thirteen.
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