Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Simon Yam
Genre: Action
Rating: * = "Hated It"
Boring. Formulaic. Drivel. The film is only 90 minutes long, but the pace is so slow it feels more like 3 hours. I found myself playing the DVD at 1.5x speed (where you can still hear and understand what they are saying) just to get through the slow parts (which are many). Van Damme is wooden and one dimensional at best and his age is showing as he no longer leaps and kicks bad guys asses - I can't remember a single leg kick above the waist. Simon Yam, a Hong Kong actor I normally enjoy, plays a cold blooded father who, for reasons never known, kills his daughter's mother and then hunts down the daughter in LA. The girl ends up with Van Damme's family and his wife is killed for her trouble, which of course sets off the angry husband's revenge spree. The action and chase scenes are slow and boring and nothing we haven't seen before. A painful movie to sit through. Avoid it.What Parents Need to Know: No info on this movie from Common Sense Media, but I would rate it
as:16+ : Vigorous usage of the f-word, a graphic torture scene involving a drill, some mild nudity and sexual contact, and of course let's not forget lots of criminal activity involving drugs, prostitution, and human trafficking. Ok for mature teenagers.
Rotten Tomatoes rating: none
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