Everything a good movie needs - this one lacks it...

Rating: 1/10 (12 January 2005)

...such as plot, a protagonist, logic (at least a tiny, tiny bit of it) and so on, and so on.
I really don't know how to start, this **** caused me physical pain. Okay, let's see...
I chose this one, hoping for some nice speeding and fighting action, maybe spiced up with a cool hero and a cute heroine in a thrilling story. I really did not expect more, I just wanted to relax and feed the stupid male in me. To be fair - I got some good car chase action in the first ten or so minutes of the movie and one good fighting scene in 70,000. The rest:

a "protagonist" that adds nothing to the "story" except that someone is needed to have his car and house blown up

therefore there is nothing like a storyline - if you don't want to call a series of unmotivated, incomprehensible and more or less coincidental actions storyline

so, these are true for some (though not too much) action-movies. But usually, there is still the action part to enjoy. Bad news: Here even this is totally boring. Ever the same three elements stretched over minutes and minutes that seem to become hours and days.

and even if you are willing to give a movie credits for nothing but fine fighting (as I am) - nope. See above. High Kicks, high kicks, high kicks, grabblegrabble, high kicks, high kicks and - last but not least - some high kicks.

I don't want to hold the absolutely pathetic dialogues against the... well... let's call it "screenplay" as I saw the thing in the German synchronized version. Maybe in English each sentence is a jewel.
The guy who recommended this movie to me owes me 92 precious minutes of my life.