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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

ebiros2 Cynthia Rothrock and Jalal Merhi are New York city undercover cops. There are mysterious killing of martial artist in the city. Jalal correctly identifies the style as Tiger Claws who only three martial artists in the country are capable of using. Rothrock, and Jalal gets on the trail of the culprit who turns out to be none other than bad guy played by Bolo Yuen.This is one of the best American made Cynthia Rothrock movie. It was good move on the producer's part to hire Bolo Yuen as the bad guy. He brought menacing personality that's usually lacking in movies of this type.Cynthia Rothrock is not known for her range of acting, and it's hard to make an interesting story around her character. In this movie Jalal and Bolo creates enough contrast to be of passable quality.Out of all the American made Cynthia Rothrock movies, this one is my favorite. It doesn't have much in the way of contents, but the action is pretty good. Choice of locations shot were better than usual, but I wished the producers put in more class into the movie as it were in Rothrock's Hong Kong made movies.

gridoon Cynthia Rothrock is quite hot in this movie, thanks to a combination of her hairstyle, her outfits (if you hadn't noticed before what a busty, curvy figure she has, you'll notice it this time) and her brutal, high-impact fight scenes. And even those who complain about her acting (which I have always found OK for this genre) will have to admit that it's a lot better than the acting of her co-star, Jalal Merhi. Bolo Yeung still has his physical presence, but to be honest, the lethal blows of his Tiger Style - deep nail scratches - don't strike me (no pun intended) as particularly brilliant martial arts moves. The plot is thin, the motivation of the killer is absent, and I also disagree with the way the ending plays out (spoilers follow): after Cynthia fails to take out Bolo singlehandedly, Merhi should have failed also, and he and Cynthia should have teamed up to turn it into a 2-on-1 handicap match. But I guess Merhi's ego (he is also the film's producer) got in the way and he had to finish the job alone. (**)

Alex-372 This movie, starring Cynthia Rothrock, Jalal Merhi, and especially Bolo Yeung, showcases everything that's wrong with martial arts movies.I still don't know why, but since it's inception, this genre is plagued by production values, acting and direction, which put it only one peg above porn, if that.Jalal Merhi especially talks like Serge the art dealer from Beverly Hills Cop. Cynthia Rothrock's abilities are accomplished, but her acting is limited. Bolo Yeung still doesn't seem to have mastered English, although I always enjoy his performances.

modius Bolo Yeung plays a 'death dealer' - a man who can kill with his bare hands or Tiger Claw Style. In the film Bolo kills off New York's best martial arts instructors and use their belts, trophies, swords as an offering to the gods to prove to himself he is the best there is.Throughout the film we see hints of Bolo killing off the martial artists, whilst Cynitha Rothrock and Jahal Merhi (both who play New York Cops) try and track him down very, very slowly. The film, in fact, moves so slowly its hard not to fall asleep. The plot although a strong one, fails to get off the ground - we never actually see Bolo killing off the martial artists giving the impression that the fighting was going to build up into an all out action-packed ending - but it never did - instead we get a mixed film that couldn't decide whether it was a Martial Arts film or an Action film - in the end it turns out to be a lame cop film with a bit of martial arts - most of which comes from Bolo.Jahal, who is on supension seems to forget that he's wearing tight jeans and seems to be able to high kick on demand whilst Cynitha hardly does anything but sit in a car or fight badly.The fighting sequences themselves are extremely poor - however the training sequences were very good.Jahal, who infiltrates the Tiger Claw training camp trains with other Tiger Claw students, and finally meets Bolo in a strip joint. There his cover is blown and he, and Cynitha chase Bolo to a conveniently placed Harbour - where they play hide and seek with Bolo.When the final fight sequences appear, Bolo seems to forget he's a psychotic killer and just stands around and waits to be kicked by Jahal - when Bolo does strike he signals to Jahal to get up instead of finishing him.I felt this film with its strong plot could have been and should have been so much better. The fight chero-gerophy should have complemented Bolo's extenstive martial arts skills and we should have at understood why Jahal (who only trained for ten minutes) could have defeated a psycho-killer in three.Out of ten, I'd give this three for effort.