This is the first movie where I have actually felt the urge to ask for
my rental money back, and those of you who know me as former IMDB poster
El Buncho know that I am no stranger to bad movies. This film was simply
that bad.
First of all, I rented this because Shannon Lee (Bruce's little girl,
who is now a serious hottie) is top billed and featured on the box.
Sure, she hasn't made any good films yet, but hope springs eternal. She
has talent, but she needs a script! And she really has very little to do
with the film. This is unfortunately a starring vehicle for Robert
Vitelli (who???), a charisma-free void of a non-actor whose martial
skills are marginal at best. Films that purport to be martial arts films
should at least be able to deliver on the butt-kicking, but this will
make the viewer want to do a bit of butt-kicking on their own (directed
at most of the people involved in this mess).
The plot is a convoluted ripoff of "La Femme Nikita" with Vitelli in the
Nikita role, and the incredibly uninvolving story just lurches along
until it reaches a ludicrous twist ending. And we also are treated to
appearances by two Star Trek actors: Michael "Worf" Dorn and the guy who
plays Dr. Phlox on "Enterprise."
And the final kick in the mouth is that this DVD bears the blasphemous
tag-line "Bruce Lee's legacy lives on." I'm not even related to the guy,
and I was offended for the entire Lee family! Avoid this at all costs;
there is simply no entertainment to be found
my rental money back, and those of you who know me as former IMDB poster
El Buncho know that I am no stranger to bad movies. This film was simply
that bad.
First of all, I rented this because Shannon Lee (Bruce's little girl,
who is now a serious hottie) is top billed and featured on the box.
Sure, she hasn't made any good films yet, but hope springs eternal. She
has talent, but she needs a script! And she really has very little to do
with the film. This is unfortunately a starring vehicle for Robert
Vitelli (who???), a charisma-free void of a non-actor whose martial
skills are marginal at best. Films that purport to be martial arts films
should at least be able to deliver on the butt-kicking, but this will
make the viewer want to do a bit of butt-kicking on their own (directed
at most of the people involved in this mess).
The plot is a convoluted ripoff of "La Femme Nikita" with Vitelli in the
Nikita role, and the incredibly uninvolving story just lurches along
until it reaches a ludicrous twist ending. And we also are treated to
appearances by two Star Trek actors: Michael "Worf" Dorn and the guy who
plays Dr. Phlox on "Enterprise."
And the final kick in the mouth is that this DVD bears the blasphemous
tag-line "Bruce Lee's legacy lives on." I'm not even related to the guy,
and I was offended for the entire Lee family! Avoid this at all costs;
there is simply no entertainment to be found