Tokyo Raiders

[Jacks Inner Rage]

I rented this today and immediatelly watched it, expecting a good HK action movie.
While the fighting was cool, almost everything else was piss poor!
The acting was horrible, the story tried to get too many twists, it just got complicated and damn dumb, the direction was very very bad, and like Battlefield Earth, i just wanted to shoot the camera man, hold the fucking thing still!
Tony whatever his name is was good, he's a very good fighter, but i liked him better in Dragons Forever, one of Chans greatest!
Anyway with all the corny twists, the unlikely happenings of the plot and the bad direction this movie didn't fair too well.
I did like however the high tech gadgets that the guy had in his apartment. They were neat!
Like i said the fighting was good and that was about the only thing it had going for it. Oh wait, while the camera movements were horrible, i did like the fast editing, it was like a Michael Bay movie, also the slow motion to speed up back to normal was cool!
Overall enjoyable for the plenty of fighting scenes, thats it!

So thats that!
**1/2 out of *****

[khitcher]

Er, Tony Leung was not in Dragons Forever...

If your review is any indication of your taste in HK movies in general, I'd save myself considerable time and money and avoid the recent crop of HK flicks, as they generally tend to gravitate toward the MTV-style, pretty-boys-and-girls-acting-tough-vehicles similar to Tokyo Raiders. I actually happen to enjoy them to some extent, but a lot of US-based fans that are used to and have come to expect the hard-hitting Jackie Chan/Jet Li vehicles feel left out in the cold by the recent wave of HK flicks.

[Jacks Inner Rage]

Yeah sorry about that.

What do you mean? Yeah we have come to expect Hard hitting action films like Legend of Drunken Master, Dragons Forever, Rumble In The Bronx, Hard Boiled, The Killer and so on. You know why? Because those came first, they were the trend setters if you will of HK flicks in America, before that it was a small fan base that hoarded Bruce Lee, and very very few that knew about Chan.
Its like that all over the world.
If a director makes three non-stop action films with no real story, but the public loves them, then thats what he'll be known for. But then if he comes around and makes a slower action film with a little more depth and heart, then it will probably be looked down apon because it dissapointed the fans of his other action flicks. Its the public, people in general, the audience.
Besides, this young Mtv fast paced crap that you say is coming in might as well stay in HK, we dont need anymore of that half ass teenie bopper wannabe mature action films crap, we already got stars like Freddie Prinz and others who think they are something, but they aren't!