Rogue - L'ultime affrontement

Fight choreographer from the Transporter, Jason Statham, Jet Li. You'd expect a great Martial Arts action flick what you get is a B Movie with little to know fighting by the two stars. This could have worked had the story been interesting enough but having Jet Li kill someone and then having Jason Statham investigate the scene while having flashbacks to murders we've already seen just came out plain boring. Any moment where there might be a possibility for some tension is stolen away from the viewer with the soundtrack beating so loud that you're certain nothing bad will happen because you wouldn't be able to hear it. I think they were trying to pull off a cop gangster movie like Jackie Chan did with "Crime Story" but they neither pulled it off or even came close.

Friends, being a movie buff is getting to be more and more of a challenge. Yes, when you go buy that ticket to (obviously) enter the theatre, one must never forget that timeless lesson: "Buyer Beware," a lesson that I know all too well but once again ignored, to my detriment. This movie was even worse then I expected, and my expectations were low. I knew that this movie would not be a new interpretation of Shakespeare or even Abbott and Costello, but after I waded through all the gratuitous violence, all the crummy acting, the pathetically inane story and the incredibly bad music, I needed time to collect my thoughts and ponder: what exactly did I watch? After giving the question some thought, I could not arrive at a definitive answer, so muddled was this movie. Indeed, I began to question whether the problem was me. Was I being too critical? Too unfair? Too inflexible? The answer to those questions was emphatically NO!!!! It wasn't me. It was the movie. The movie stunk, pure and simple. So after reading this and you still decide to spend your hard-earned money to watch this movie and leave the movie disappointed, don't blame me because I told you so.

I saw the movie War with Jason Statham and Jet Li. Jason has let me down. I say that mostly because the movie sucked. Don't go watch it in the theater. Don't rent it on video. You could spend that amount of time getting your teeth cleaned or washing your garbage cans and it would be more fun. (Or, hey, stay home and watch Crank or Transporters I and II.) I know it's not High Cinema, whatever that is. But look, dialogue with a bit of wit and sass is not too much to ask. This is a movie about a Yakuza war, right? So three different times, someone says, "This means war." Literally. Duh. The fighting was sparse. Worse, there were not many good fights. A rousing fight between Rogue and Kira would have pushed the envelope a bit and made the movie better. Devon Aoki made a good tough in Sin City. That might have been fun. Two things I did like were the vehicles and weapons, but there wasn't nine dollars worth of that eye candy. Obviously, my perspective differs from the few previous posters', who loved this movie. I'm glad they got more out of it than I did. I just want my money back!