Review

By Chance Dibben

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Action movies make you think that the world is constantly under construction. That was the most notable thing I observed watching War, an inept bust-em up starring Jason Statham and Jet Li.

FBI agent John Crawford (Statham) loses his partner to the mysterious and seemingly indestructible Rogue (Li), a ruthless Yakuza hitman. Three years later Crawford is still looking for Rogue and his devotion to revenge causes his marriage to fail. Rogue resurfaces, having crossed lines with the Yakuza, working for the rival Triads. He plays both sides of the crime war between the gangs, while toying with Crawford.

That’s about it. There’s some plot involving gold horse statuettes and police corruption but this film is mainly another excuse for assorted items to blow up, cars to crash, and people to show off their martial arts. As far as action movies go, War is mediocre at best and mostly irritating with its unnecessary cuts, horrible dialogue and preposterous situations. As for action War actually has very little. If you are swayed by dull men with guns, swordplay and some martial arts ass-kicking then War might be for you, otherwise save your money.

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