Blood Money (I) (2012)

A Colombian drugs cartel joins forces with a group of Hong Kong Triads and the hottest Hitman on the planet, to ship two tonnes of cocaine into Australia and China.

Director:

Gregory McQualter

Writer:

Gregory McQualter

Stars:

Byron J. Brochmann, Alex Castro, Pauline Egan

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
Byron J. Brochmann	...	Toscani Mafia #1
Alex Castro	...	Esteban Cabrera
Pauline Egan	...	Network News Reporter
Jeronimo Garcia	...	Raul
Masson Ge	...	Angie Ho
Nancy Ibarra Grande	...	Podium Dancer
Nelson Grande	...	Kako
Shiga Lin	...	Ping Ho
Chia Hui Liu	...	Shaolin Monk
Zheng Liu	...	Zhou
Alana Lowes	...	Sam
Brad McMurray	...	Mario Toscani
Jason Neibling	...	Wolf
Pitbull	...	Himself
Natisha Rai	...	Kisha

Storyline

Zheng Zhou is the most feared warrior from the Shaolin Dynasty in China. His fighting and weapons skills are legendary. But when his parents are killed and sister kidnapped, he turns to a life of drugs and crime that will almost kill him. With the help of Hong Kong's notorious Dragon Triad syndicate, Colombia's biggest drugs cartel hatches an elaborate plan to traffic two tonnes of crack cocaine through the Port of Miami in America and ultimately into Australia and China. But when the partnership turns sour after the Cartel holds a Triad family member hostage, the Triads recruit Zhou to rescue the girl and kill the Colombians. What ensues is a bloodied street war across three countries. Zhou turns international Hitman with an arsenal of hi-tech surveillance devices, explosives, high powered weaponry and an array of fighting skills dating back fifteen hundred years. But just as Zhou rescues the hostage and takes control of the entire drugs shipment, the Triads and Colombians re-ignite ...

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Taglines:

Zheng Liu - the next Bruce Lee!

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody violence, language, drug content and some sexuality/nudity

Details

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 August 2012 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Box Office

Budget:

$2,300,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Ambrosia Pictures

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 widescreen

Did You Know?

Trivia

Trained since a young age at the famed Shaolin Academy in Henan Province China, star Zheng Liu has the magical ability to break solid steel bars over his head and throw steel pins at extreme speed through solid sheets of glass.

User Reviews

Maybe some just expected too much

I read a lot of the past reviews and yes there are areas in this movie that are at times confusing and yes we can not clearly understand every word our hero is saying and heck yes some of the special effects are very badly done. The plot was not exactly clear either. However that all being said, I must say that when I sat down to watch this I wasn't expecting an academy award winning, Oscar taking movie, no I was simply expecting the old style martial arts movies from the old days,and yes, even a Bruce Lee style movie, and for me that is exactly what I got. I have yet to sit down to a martial arts movie and expect an Oscar, no I expect great fight scenes and this movie has that for sure. We don't get a choppy fight scene where the screen cuts from one angle to another after every punch to hide the fact that the stunt person is actually doing it, no this movie lets you see a continuous flow of action during the fights and not close up on the face or arm or leg but on the whole body in motion. The main actor here might not have been a Bruce Lee cause there will never be another Bruce but as far as his fighting style on screen he would make Bruce proud. Visual physical poetry in motion. It's true I give this movie a 5 which is good, and thats just because of the great fight scenes.