The only reason I watched this martial arts flick is because the great Gordon(MASTER KILLER) Liu is in it. I should know better than to get my hopes up for any modern kung fu/action flick though. The main star here is someone named Zheng Liu, who is no relation to Gordon but was in real life a Shaolin monk before becoming an actor. The blu-ray I have of this movie calls him the next Bruce Lee due to his slight resemblence. I wonder how many billions of Asian actors have been tagged this before? The plot here deals with some rival gangs, one is the triad in Hong Kong and the other is Columbian, fighting each other over some big cocaine shipment. Zheng plays a hitman who gets caught in between the two gangs and while it was a very glossy and good-looking production, I can't say it was all that engaging of a narrative (the CGI blood and FX and a rapper I never heard of didn't help very much. Mr. Gordon does get one scene where he gets to show off his kung fu skills which has to be close to the last time he did that on screen before falling into bad health. It's too bad it wasn't in a better movie. Perhaps the problem is that this is actually an Australian production and not made by an Asian company since they still seem to be able to churn out some entertaining product.
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