This movie just came off as bland, so bland that even Steven Seagal would probably have said no to starring in it. Instead they get this actor sporting a glorious mullet similar to JCVD in the movie Hard Target and dresses like the countless grunge rock bands that were dying out at that point. My hair is longer than Lorenzo's and I'd still be the jerk telling him to cut it to look more legit if I was the director or an executive producer.
The first 30 minutes minus a shootout in this mansion were pretty generic and could easily have been cut from the movie. Then again the movie would be under an hour if so. The oil truck scene would have worked if it didn't feel like a video game such as Goldeneye on Nintendo 64 where enemies kept appearing out of nowhere during the shootout as well. The Russian mafia boss hardly sounds Russian. They could have just bugged Ron Jeremy to be in it.
Lorenzo can fight, this almost comes off as a vanity project as everyone loves him and thinks he's so awesome. He's a little too soft spoken to the point he just comes off as kind of boring. Lorenzo is this walking wood chipper who doesn't lose a single fight so to me anyways you don't get very involved in this. The villain was pretty bland and the story was nothing special. It was like a better made Samurai Cop. However it just drove me nuts that this more than likely 100% North American looking guy knows Cambodian fluently. Besides that the last fight was just boring how it ended. Were they going for a PG13 rating? Either way a 3.5 star from me. The fighting was good, the opening score was catchy, there was a plot to follow and the locations were somewhat diverse. I love the explosions from the grenade launchers. However this movie was just bland and I feel could have been done better. I wonder if this was direct to TV or one of those direct to video ones no one had ever heard of and are as bored as I was on a Sunday night to watch. My big question. Did this movie make any money?
