“…A martial-arts-action-adventure/straight-to-video slice of B-movie heaven starring the late, pre-The-Crow Brandon Lee as Jake Lo, a college student pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents and he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin (the absolutely out-there-but-all-the-better-for-it Nick Mancuso). When the witness protection programme fails him, Lo has to protect himself with the only weapons he has – his “bare hands” (ho, ho!)! Determined to survive, he goes head to head with Chicago’s warring drug lords with the assistance of a renegade cop (the always ace Powers Boothe) and his beautiful partner (Kate Hodge). This is the sort of movie where roundhouse kicks take out wooden beams without nary a broken leg, where sliding through sheets of glass to take out a bad guy on a motorcycle doesn’t warrant a single drop of blood, where the hero ****s the gorgeous sexy cop just to give us a love scene, where there’s not one, but two, songs by Hardline on the soundtrack and the superb climax ends with a slow pull-out on the disaster zone whilst emergency services attend to things and we rise into the night skyline, just like in Die Hard. Huge, unadulterated B-movie fun! Every man should own this movie and watch it once on Christmas Eve every year (even though the film has nothing to do with Christmas!) and then, pumped up with adrenaline as a result of the movie, kick the living shit out of Santa Claus when he comes down the chimney and claim he was “an intruder” when the cops show up!”

It’s an absolutely ACE post-pub movie!

Rapid Fire…I remember watching it after seeing The Crow, sometime in my junior high days. I can’t say it made much of an impression on me, but I’ll be sure to take a second look.