OVERRATED

Rating: 7/10 (23 September 1999)

A nice premise is ruined by a plot that never settles down and decides what it is going to be. The first 1/2 of the movie builds nicely, but the last 1/2 is just mindless action with no direction. The phony fight scenes were out of a Mortal Combat video game. If karate was so essential to the movie they should've gotten Jackie Chan to do it.