Charles Bronson must have disliked his role in this movie
I thought this movie sucked and it wasn't because of Charles Bronson. I was a fan and admirer of Charles Bronson since his role on, "The Dirty Dozen".
Watch the movie closely and you get the strong impression that Charles Bronson in real life (when he was alive) was no where even near the kind of bigoted man he had to depict in this movie. Throughout the movie I constantly see a look of distaste and disdain on Bronson's face, as if he intensely disliked having to play the role of an ethnically bigoted man. But who knows? Maybe Bronson needed the work. Heck, we all end up having to do things unpleasant in life because we need the money to live.
There is a good dramatic scene where Charles Bronson's detective Crowe character observes the Japanese father breaking down and crying under the stress of awaiting the fate of his kidnapped daughter. Detective Crowe had harbored a stereotypical impression of all Japanese men as having balls of steel and dying for the emperor. Crowe discovers that men of other races and ethnic background can display strong emotions and feelings for their own offspring.