Rick Yune, Keith David, Bokeem Woodbine
In Bangkok, an assassin who turns down a job that hits too close to home finds himself targeted by the elite members of his profession.
DVD Release Date: July 28, 2009
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September 25, 2009A pretty good straight to DVD action film. Some good fight scenes and stunt work. An assassin passes up a hit on a female singer and gets drawn in to protect her from the next taker. Feels like quite a few other films put together most notably Bangkok Dangerous and the Replacemen...( read more)
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August 17, 2009Always great to see Keith David strutting his stuff, but this one is generic to the point of pointlessness. Watch it if there's nothing else on.
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January 1, 2009Throwback martial arts/shoot em up like they did in the 80's...plenty of action, gunplay and fight scenes..some of the drama is cheesy, but the theme of revenge runs deep in this actioneer and delivers. If you enjoyed early John Woo movies, you will enjoy this film as well. Dec...( read more)
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October 12, 2009Not what I expected for the ending, I was thinking more in the lines of Bankok Dangerous. I enjoyed this ending much better.
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August 3, 2009This was a different kind of assassin flick. Father is the teacher...Brother takes his own road as a bodyguard..leaving the star of the show as an orphaned step son to take his own road as an assassin. Coincedentally there this one account involving a singer...("The Bodyguard" w...( read more)
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August 3, 2009i liked the lead guy in this movie i thought he was cool and i like the action and shoot outs and the story wasnt to bad
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July 2, 2009Its actually not a bad concept, but the film seems to have a distinct lack of identity. It starts off as a sort of tribute to blacksploitation and 70s Kung Fu films, but then shifts into a 'gritty' survival action movie. I think had they emphasized the former and really funked th...( read more)
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