I picked up this title, as I heard that this movie is packed with good action.. Well it is, but I couldn’t enjoy it since the storyline and the acting were very bad.
nnnFrank is a delivery guy who delivers stuffs for bad people. One day he delivered a bag which has Lai (Shu Qi) in it. He opened the bag, and that’s why we have this movie. Lai brings complications to his delivery plans.
Plotholes:n1. For what purpose does Lai being transported to the moustache guy in the first place, and by whom (by her father?) This is what the DVD cover says:n… a beautiful young woman kidnapped by international slave traders….nThe slave traders would probably reffering to the moustache guy, but the thing is the moustache guy is Lai’s father partner, so why on earth he kidnapped his daughter? They don’t fight or having disagreement or anything as they both later on the movie hand in hand fighting Frank.. n2. Why would someone hire Frank to deliver Lai in the first place, surely his men can handle this simple transporting one girl from one place to another…n3. Frank is easily fall into the conviction that there are 400 hundreds asians smuggled, this doesn’t go along with Frank’s character being portrayed as a cold ex soldier.. Surely the relationship between Frank and Lai can be more elaborated first ..
Jason Statham is playing quite convincing role as an ex-military person, he doesn’t talk much and his fighting skill is quite good. Probably the most enjoyable moment of this movie, is the car chase between Frank and the inspector (that BMW 1991 is just so cool.. ) at the begi
ing of the movie. Shu Qi speaks grammatically correct English with a very bad accent, she is struggling to pronounce the words correctly and her character supposed to be someone who is educated in English since childhood. Understanadly her acting is then very unconvincing and unmoving, this is the case of bad casting by the directors.
At the end of the day, I do want to see action packed movie without thinking too much, but if there’s too much non-sense in it, my mind just couldn’t cope with them… Unconvincing story and acting, very dissapointing, I give it 1 star..