An average movie

To be honest, I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Mark Whalberg, I thought I should give it a try. Honestly, I wasn't really good, I'm afraid. Apparently, they tried to make one of those action-comedy from Hong-Kong (the director, Kirk Wong, was even from Hong-Kong) but the end-result was pretty disappointing. Indeed, the humor was ever bad or too tongue-in-cheek and the action scenes with some typical slow-motion were not really impressive. Mark Whalber, who wasn't yet a big star at the time, was not bad at all though and there was something actually quite appealing about his character. Even better was Lou Diamond Phillips who seriously stole the show every time he was on the screen. Unfortunately, all the other characters were uninteresting or downright obnxious. All the way, you could feel that there was some potential, that it could have been actually decent, but the whole thing never took off and it was simply rather underwhelming. To conclude, it is a pretty average flick and it is not really worth a look, even if you like the genre.

5/10