One of my biggest guilty pleasures.

"You have the right to be dead".... Badass! Fun action/comedy film.

Dolph Lundgren plays Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee feels transplanted from a much goofier movie in this mismatched buddy cop brawler. Have you seen most of this before? Of course you have. However, each fight seems to have a unique twist that keeps them interesting, and the final death in the film is pretty much among the most ridiculous, yet amazing deaths in movie history. It's a shame that studio editing chopped this movie so short that it feels like they are just wandering from fight to fight without much motivation for being anywhere at any given time. Oh yeah, and Tia Carrere is in it, being her usual awful self.

"We're gonna nail this guy, and when we get down, we're going to go eat fish off those naked chicks."

Neither Dolph or Brandon give great performances in this, but I found them both likeable enough that the film works. It really sucks that Brandon's career was cut short, as here he reminds of a more charismatic Keanu Reeves. Imagine if he was cast as Neo in The Matrix. That movie would be astronomically more awesome.

Anyway, Showdown in Little Tokyo is about as average an action movie as you will find anywhere. I still had an enjoyable enough time with it, simply because I like both Dolph and Brandon.

I was originally going to give this film 3.5 or a 4, but after a certain "one-liner" I have to put it down to a 3.

The Line:
Dolph Lundgren is frequently startled by the lady he rescued from the gang. When he is started, he usually says: "I Didn't hear you coming".
Later on in the film, he has sex with her.
At the end of sex, she says "This time I heard you cumming".

The Aftermath:
I was felt sickened by this remark...
Nothing was going to save this film for me, not even the leader of the gang getting stabbed onto a pinwheel with a samari sword then setting himself on fire would do anything for me.

"Kenner. Just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you...you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man." - Johnny Murata

Showdown in Little Tokyo is an insane, buddy cop, Yakuza, revenge flick starring the late Brandon Lee and Dolph Lundgren. The film is nothing but pure testosterone. It goes so far over the top, that it becomes hilariously campy and homoerotic.

Awesome early 90s actioner. Only 75min w/ plenty of ass-kicking.

"Kenner, just in case we get killed, I wanted to tell you, you have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man." -Brandon Lee

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

This movie was unfortunately hacked up by the studio and it is clear that is what happened, but it's still a really goofy yet fun action movie with plenty of humor (and nudity, too) and an all-time WTF line that you would not suspect one man to say to another.

Man I fucking love this film, I think it's next to The Last Boy Scout and Terminator 2 in my favorite action flicks of all time. And, I mean, it's not without it's faults. These are two cops that blatantly kill the bad guys 80's Action movie style and no one is buying that Bushido get up that Dolph dons for the finale but hell I just don't care. I'm sure it's very offensive to Japanese and Chinese, sure but there's something so cool about Brandon Lee and Lundgren, one partner fully entrenched in the culture of another and the other doing lame wise guy quips. And the stunts!! Gah. Great flick.

Such a gloriously 80's movie.

Dolph's fight with the sumo guy and premature ejaculation with Tia Carrere are particularly amazing.