War (2007)

Simply Perfect

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I don't care if people hated this movie. Nobody is going to find another movie of where Jet Li and Jason Stataham fight each other. Sure there were unexpected scenes of where I was surprised,but not impressed with. But either way,they both had there own fight,and even if it was a short fight,it was still a good fight. The plot was going good compared to the trailer for the first half,but when we get to the last part of where we find out Jet Li's discovery towards the end,I wasn't impressed at all. I was kinda expecting a whole revenge type of deal with Statham,not with Li. Even if the unexpected twist was disappointing to me,I still love the fact that both of them fight a whole bunch of assassins and each other.

Super-Slick, Double-Starred Action Flick. A Kung-Fu Wannabee that Lacks the Grit and Fun of Hong Kong Movies and is Poorly Directed by a Graduate of the Music-Video World of Hyper-Editing, Close-Ups and Hysterical Hubris that Believes that Gloss is Great and Alternating between Fast and Slow Scenes is Fantastic Filmmaking.It Squanders the Opportunity to Capitalize on the Box-Office and Fanboy Appeal of Jet Li and Jason Statham. So much so that it Borders on the Blasphemous. They have Exactly two Scenes Together. One Talking, One Fighting. Neither are Remarkable in any way.The Revenge Story is Standard Stuff with a Bloated Plot about a Yakuza/Triad War with Our Two Anti-Heroes bouncing in and out of the Story between a lot of Serious Talk and Melodramatics about Tradition, Family, Alliances, and Bullet Casings.Not an Awful Movie but a Monumental Waste of Money and Kick-Butt Talent. Worth a Watch for Fans of the Stars but is Overall Disappointing.

FBI Agent "Jack Crawford" (Jason Statham) is obsessed with finding the assassin named "Rogue" (Jet Li) who killed his partner "Tom Lone" (Terry Chen) along with Lone's wife and child. His obsession is so severe that it eventually results in the breakup of his own marriage. However, as fate would have it the assassin just happens to reappear in San Francisco several years afterward at the same time that a war breaks out between the Japanese Yakuza and one of the Chinese Triads. In no time Jack Crawford has his hands full as the body toll rises and Rogue begins appearing—and then disappearing—like a ghost. At any rate, rather than reveal any more I will just say that I thought that this was an outstanding movie—at least for the most part. Unfortunately, the director (Phillip G. Atwell) apparently got carried away and it really tended to unravel towards the end. As a result, instead of ranking this movie quite high, I have to downgrade this film to just slightly above average.

Jet Li is a accomplished martial artist who has proved himself over and over again, just look at 'Unleashed', a fantastic martial arts movie. And then we have this piece of atrocity, it reeks with bad writing and bad acting.A cop is on the hunt for an assassin who is able to change his face by using surgery...What makes this cop 'different' is that he is looking for revenge....This assassin killed his partner....But this assassin has returned to eliminate the Japanese Yakuza and the Chinese Triads of San Francisco.This is simply bad...The acting from the gangsters is far too similar to a gangster movie entitled 'The Godfather' maybe you've heard of it...I found the Yakuza boss's daughter to be hilarious....But I guess the director wanted the audience to be scared...The action is mediocre, which in my opinion is shocking considering that it is a Jet Li movie.