: Cradle 2 the Grave
The early reviews I saw gave this a mediocre grade, but I don’t know why. It’s a decent action flick. There’s cool stunts, high-tech thievery, bad guys, good guys, pretty girls — what more do you want? The plot’s mildly interesting: a black thief steals some black diamonds that a really bad dude wants. He kidnaps the thief’s 8-year-old daughter to force the thief to give him the stones. Jet Li comes in as a Taiwanese govt. agent seeking to return the stones to his country. He and the thief team up and become reluctant partners. Sure, the plot’s convoluted, but what action flick (other than the classic Die Hard) has a plot that makes sense? The action stuff is pretty good, though some of the scenes go on too long. I guess the better you are at martial arts the more hits it takes to actually down a man.
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