"Bei, instinct-driven and well-trained in fighting, is on his way of adventure to Korea to look for his long-lost parent. With the help of a female reporter he travels to exotic Turkey where he finds a huge amount of money and meets a mysterious girl. Against an assortment of characters fighting him along the way, he finally realizes that he has become the key to locating a lung cancer virus..." I took that synopsis right off the back of the Universe VCD.
I was a bit disappointed with Jackie's latest effort. His films seem to keep getting bigger and bigger, with bigger budgets trying be more "Hollywood". This is more of a problem with a lot of big Hong Kong films lately. This movie seemed sorta seem like Who Am I? because there were various locations and such. There was even a CIA agent pretending to be a reporter. Don't CIA agents know how to pretend to be anything else? The action wasn't as good as we're used to with other Jackie movies. There wasn't any spectacular fights. Usually you can expect a cool fight at the end, but not this time. The fights are short and not even filmed and edited as good as previous Jackie material. In a couple of his other films Jackie has displayed his bare ass on a few occasions, and here he shows not once, not twice, not three times, but too many times. Jackie's in a Turkish bath house and has to run from some baddies. Out in the market he loses his towel leaving him buck nekkid. As he runs he grabs and uses various items to cover his genitals, but keeps losing them in the scuffle. During this we are shown various shot of his ass, something for the ladies I guess. Brad Allen shows up as a henchmen, but he and Jackie don't really get into it, they were WAY better in Gorgeous. The end action sequence is pretty lame with Jackie aboard a flaming tanker truck. Overall the movie looks nice with the exception of some cheesy looking wire effects that blow people off the car stuck to the tanker. Not one of Jackie's better movies. As I said it seems sorta like Who Am I? except I'd rather watch Who Am I? A nice looking movie, but it lacks the action Chan fans demand.
As with all Jackie movies, there are bloopers and out takes rolling with the credits. Even the bloopers are subtitled. In a stunt gone awry Jackie takes a knock on the melon and some guy runs over to him speaking in Chinese. This is subtitled as "Are you okay?" or something to that effect.
"Review" by Keith