All right everybody go through the motions.
Find a karate themed film, put a prominent martial artist on the cover and then have them be a secondary character to someone else that you weren't interested in.
Because that happened here again.
Cynthia Rockroth is the one on the cover of the poster and she's a secondary! She's in this movie more than Jackie Chan was in The Prisoner, but still.
Instead our main character is Chad McQueen and he's fin,e but he's not Cynthia.
Heck you could argue that the antagonists played by david carradine is actually more the main character. I think he gets just about as much screen time and I'm happy about that. He was a lot of fun to watch.
So David Carradine plays this would-be criminal who owns a martial arts Dojo.
He never he never seems to show much interest in the dojo.
But he's a self-made martial arts expert.
Constantly picking fights with bigger and badder people just to prove his point.
And he also makes money having a bunch of underlings steal luxury car to sell to other people for profit.
At some point he'll acquire a bunch of guns and he backstabs everyone that he's practically involved with.
He also has this random Lieutenant guy who has the world's worst fake British accent and he's played by Philip Tan.
He's fun for what who he plays but why on God's green earth did they gave him that accent?! It's beyond me, but it does make it memorable.
Anyways there's this cop played by McQueen who's investigating one of the stolen cars and things become confusing as his brother was involved in the car theft.
He doesn't want to believe his brother could be involved in such crimes. and he keeps catching his brother and then letting him go hoping that he'll maybe learn his lesson and get away from this criminal Endeavor. But he doesn't and eventually he's rented out by a guy he was supposed to kill and his dad beaten to death by David Carradine. This leads McQueen to go on this weird undercover Mission to join this weirdo Dojo (which really doesn't have that much presents in the movie) and then inevitably fight David Carradine at the end after David's shot everyone else he's involved with (except for his British Speaking associate). Oh, and Cynthia Rothrock is also there, once again she's on the poster but she's really not that prevalent.
She gets some good fight scenes at least, in fact everyone does.
the fight choreography is a bit stilted at points it's still okay. Stevia artificial sound effects for the punching is great. And there's some ridiculous ADR.
''like we're talkin, cheap Italian movie ATR going on. But it still works out.
It's a fun action flick that doesn't take itself too seriously.
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