Just in from watching Rogue Assassin with Jet Li and Jason Statham. The movie is known as War in other countries.
It’s the typical action-packed movie you’d come to expect from these two actors. Jason brings the same arrogance and violence from Transporter and Italian Job into his role here playing a FBI agent and Jet, well, what else would you expect? He plays a hired assassin and gets involved in the Chinese Triads and the Japanese Yakuza.
The movie has REALLY cool cars, with Jet driving a Spyker C8 Spyder throughout the film and Statham sporting a Mustang. There are shots of a few Lambos, Ferraris and Maseratis. The movie has a pretty cool car chase with the two of them going head to head in a decent battle. One would naturally assume the the Italian has the advantage, but the brutal muscle of the Yank gives it a run for its money in the traffic filled streets.
Lots of swords, pistols, snipers and automatic machine guns.
The movie is definitely nothing new, but it does have a fairly cool twist at the end. The action sequences are very well choreographed, and I am almost certain that John Wu himself couldn’t have done it better.
Definitely worth a watch if you like it rough!
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April 20th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Cool, i’ll make sure i watch that!
April 20th, 2008 at 6:01 am
you should!
there’s also a movie of Jackie Chan and jet Li coming out pretty soon, called Forbidden Kingdom. I hope that its gonna be a pretty cool movie. I love Jackie Chan and Jet Li is is the ku part from cool in Kung Fu.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I love Jet Li long time, The One is probably one of my all time favourites ever.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Yeah, he has this cool arrogance about him. I love the fact that he never smiles and has this reeeal gangsta walk!
April 21st, 2008 at 5:39 am
cool, sounds like weekend entertainment where one doesn’t have to think too hard.
can you tell me why a movie would have different names in different countries… i never got that.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:45 am
Actually, a lot of thinking is involved. Should i get the large Coke or the extra large Coke?
Astros, Whispers or Smarties?
No clue why the movies have different names. But I assume it must a very good reason, because it requires two marketing budgets!