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War (2007)
Directed by Philip G. Atwell
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Overview
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it’s too late? And when the dust settles, who will remain standing?
Rated R | Length 103 minutes
Actors
Jet Li | Jason Statham | John Lone | Devon Aoki | Luis Guzmán | Saul Rubinek | Ryo Ishibashi | Sung Kang | Andrea Roth | Kenneth Choi | Mathew St. Patrick | Nadine Velazquez | Terry Chen | Mark Cheng | Steph Song | Kennedy Montano | Kane Kosugi | Eric Keenleyside | Annika Foo | Nicholas Elia | Timothy Paul Perez | Peter Shinkoda | Johnson Phan | Larry Lam | Warren Takeuchi | Don Lew | John Novak | Randy Lee | Jennifer Chang | Lucy Lu | Jennifer Chung | Aaron Au | Wilken Yam | Hiro Kanagawa | Jung-Yul Kim | Tran Thi Thu | Mitchell A. Lee Yuen | Brian Ho | Nadia Farès | Aaron Pearl | Bruce Bellocchi | Allan Lysell | Ildiko Ferenczi | Meghan Flather
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/07/2020 | Home Theater | Blu-ray | Owned | 6.5 stars |
| (Average) 6.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
This was more fun than I remembered right up until the second twist ending. The final ending is so weirdly abrupt and unnecessary; it felt tacked on.
The stunt work is pretty good (once again choreographed by Corey Yuen) but kind of disappointing to not see a really decent hand-to-hand combat sequence between Jet Li and Jason Statham.
Devon Aoki is criminally underused in this; she could (and should) have had a more physically involved role. The storyline set that up but never delivered on it. Also cool to see Kane Kosugi, Sho Kosugi’s son, in a small role. I had no idea he was in this until I saw his name go by in the opening credits.
This is Atwell’s sole feature-length directorial effort, and in fact hasn’t really done anything since except some second unit director work. Mostly he’d done music videos for Eminem, Tupac, Dr. Dre, etc. before this. Given that WAR isn’t bad, I wonder why he dropped off of the Hollywood radar.
4 years ago
Wow I haven’t seen this since around the time it hit home video. Forgotten most of it but now I wanna revisit. Sounds better than I remember anyway.
4 years ago
It probably isn’t but maybe worth a revisit anyway! Most of Li’s American films are disappointing to me in that they just never really fully utilize him. I need to rewatch more of his early stuff.