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Plot is unclear and uninspired
The plot of this movie is convoluted and unclear and much of the action is rather predictable. There are some cops that are corrupt, but it is difficult to determine which ones or what they did. This is not the ordinary hiding of the guilty in order to develop the plot; I never did understand what the guilty actually did.
Sonny Chiba plays a
ruthless hired killer called Makoto that is captured and sent to prison based
on the actions of informants and dirty cops. Brigitte Nielsen plays his deadly
female companion, and she helps Makoto break out of prison, killing a few
guards in the process. The two of them then embark on a spree of tracking down
the informants, brutally killing them and everyone else that stands in their way.
Eddie Cook (Robert Davi) and Vinnie Rizzo (Steven Bauer)
play two Special Crimes Agents that are involved in the Makoto case and they
are foiled over and over while their officer buddies and cooperative street
people are killed. A beautiful female FBI agent is assigned as part of the task
force and at first she is shunned but then the inevitable happens and after she
flashes her buttocks in a sauna, a romance brews.
While there is a
two-track chase scene at the end, it is so cheaply done that it is operationally
at the level of a poor network television scene. The martial arts expert Makoto
is suddenly incapable of fighting and the crack assassin Nielsen character
loses the ability to shoot straight. Even the sex scene lacks real passion and
fails to even appear to be spontaneous. I found it to be a boring movie.
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