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August 25, 2007

Under the Peg - This Isn't Revenge, This Isn't Punishment...

by Peg-Eye Nate

This is War, starring Jason Statham, and Jet Li. Jason Statham plays Agent Crawford, a tough as nails San Fransico FBI agent who loses his partner to a cold, malicious Yakuza assassin named Rogue (Jet Li). Rogue was trained to kill by the CIA, until he turned on his handlers, killed a group of agents, and threw in his lot with the Asian Mafia. He is death incarnate: he doesn't miss, he moves with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel, and strikes with the brutality of a headsman's ax. His trademark is a depleted uranium bullet with a titanium casing, and Crawford has sworn revenge for what Rogue did. Three years later, a Yakuza bar is shot up and blown to bits by a man armed with depleted uranium rounds in titanium casings. That's when the story begins in earnest.

The fight scenes are very nice, and there is a very good car chase in the movie. This is to be expected when you cast a stunt driver and a martial arts expert in the lead roles. Neither of the leads is very sympathetic, however. Crawford put his hunt for revenge ahead of his family, and Rogue is a merciless killer. You don't have anybody to root for until the last fifteen minutes or so of the movie. So, if that's a important part of your movie experience, this might not be the best movie for you, but if you can go to a movie just for gunfights and body count, it's worth the ticket fee.

Overall: Best to check your compassion at the door for this one.
Score 8.5 pegs out of ten.


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You can always tell how good a movie is by how many lines it has from the movie "Toombstone"..The more lines the better the movie


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