Product: Showdown in Little Tokyo [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 5.0
"I just want you to know you have the biggest........"
Ah, the adventures of the type-casted actor (Jason Statham, reading this?). In 1991 some mediocre filmmakers contacted Lungren for a movie and they told him that he would be playing Drago (from 'Rocky IV') once again. For legal purposes they told Lungren that the English diminutive for Drago is Kenner.Kenner: he's a cop, he wears a black leather jacket, he's impervious to bullets, he lifts cars, he single-handedly mangles and destroys people and public property, he is emotionless and expressionless, and he works alone. Like a pirate...cop, the expressionless Kenner swings on a rope onto the ring of an illegal fight club, pummels both fighters, and puts everyone in mortal danger, or as he likes to say, "under arrest." Perhaps Kenner is angry because the Asian mob bosses never invite him to be a contestant in their fight club - and because of this, Kenner drives his muscle car around town looking to take out his mildly racist frustrations on members of the Asian community to the tune of "left over Miami Vice music" (Tom Servo). Later in the movie, Kenner throws some human bodies around like rag dolls and in the process he destroys a Chinese restaurant, where he then meets his assigned partner played by Brandon Lee. I felt bad for Brandon Lee just for having had to read the script for this movie, especially those revolving around Kenner's crotch (this in itself deserves some additional analysis, but I'll leave that to someone else). Brandon Lee and Kenner don't like each other at first but upon listening to Kenner's tragic story about the murder of his parents, Lee joins Kener in a mindless game of revenge because he really "likes him" and in the end they'll be able to "eat fish off of the naked chicks". Well guess what? I like Dolph too, er I mean Kenner. And while the director's intent was to convince the viewers that Kenner needs a midwife to assist him in giving birth to human emotions, the real moral of this story is: we all need someone to help us kill bad Japanese druglords to avenge the deaths of our loved ones.This movie is so god AWFUL that I LOVE IT!