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horrible movie full of flaws, empty of plot!


tsk tsk,,,

1. why does it rain, not rain in the final fight scene?
2. how come the baddies car is impervious to bullets?
3. why is dmx such a bad actor (actually, why is he an actor at all)?
4. it just isnt kool enough... even though they try to harvest some black-gangsta coolness, it just isnt as succesful as "romeo must die". in fact it seems like a copy/sequel/prequel to it!
5. how come the stones can handled being hit with a hammer, but at the hands of mr. li it melts the baddie like a nazi in indiana jones?

i dont neccesarily need answers to these, i just thought alot of people would be sharing my opinion.. or not?



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1. When the helicopter crashed a water main broke and sprays water during the final fights scene.
5. They are hit with the hammer before they have been "activated". After the stones are "activated" they are radioactive so the one is put into a protective case. Jet Li breaks the case releasing radiation and kills Mark Dacascos.

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5. answer i can accept, 1. is just silly,,,true that the rain comes from ONE place (lika hose or water main, but it is too evenly dispersed, and not concequent from a birds eye view throughout the fight. i even think u see a shot of it from afar to the side, where it is completely dry)

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3. dmx doesnt show no emotions at all,
in action scenes he did ok, but no emotions :x

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i got a question, the bad guy was in probably the worst helicopter crash/imaginable....yet he walks away from it perfectly fine?

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How the hell does Mark Dacascos survive that fiery helicopter crash and explosion???

I like Dacascos and Jet Li but man this movie was awful. Seeing an unskilled fighter like DMX 'hold his own' against real fighters was just as painful as when Mel Gibson & Danny Glover beat up Jet Li in LW4. Just ridiculous.

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How the hell does Mark Dacascos survive that fiery helicopter crash and explosion???

So Jet-Li can fight him and beat him.
Y'know...dramatic climax to an action movie??

'Only EFFORT, DISCIPLINE, LOYALTY, earn the right to wear the Dragon Doji.' - Oroku Saki

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The reason is Frederick, these people who make these films are so stoned out of their gourd most the time, that the millions of dollars they control make up for their utter incompetence and stupidity, at least in their minds, since they are always under the influence of the latest designer drug.
No matter how screwed up their movie is, with hundreds of scene errors, they will all get around their daquiri doozie drug circle and praise and squattle eachothers "massive talent" - and then all walk off glad it's all over as they curse one another under their breathe, and go on to the next great self flagellating ego pump about themselves to their for the night sexbag toddling alongside them off the nighttime beach.
Yeah, that's why.
In fact, the worse it is, and the more they get away with, the "better they are". It "proves their greatness" to - themsleves !

LOL - Yep, they "pulled it off" - because of the massive greatness...uh huh - it's the new "standard of excellence".

Don't forget, their money sotted wrangling personal assistants and agents prattle around them goggling for a moment to compliment them and move to extort more millions from some other incompetent idiot with a hook up to a studio and some bling flashing new age artistic freak with a vision, that requires the group think circle of stupidity to prop up and thrust the wholesale crackpot crap on the public, who suck it up like dehydrated elephants on a lazy boy recliner, readyto be "just as cool and awesome" as the spazz they just wasted 2 hours gloating over on screen.

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6) Taiwan does not posess nuclear technology, the island is not capable or even allowed to develop nukes under international treaty.

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I just love when people still try to look for plots in this type of action movies! This isn't like the Bourne or Bond flicks, those need plots.

These, like Romeo Must Die, are just stupid movies meant to be enjoyed for their silliness, sub par acting and overall action scenes. No more no less.

[after killing an Irish] Burn him, see if his ashes turn green - Bill the Butcher

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