Jet Li's likability and a few decent stunt fights do a lot of heavy lifting in this very Year 2000 collision of charty hip-hop and martial arts. It wisely doesn't try and get too gritty and is something of a guilty pleasure - highlights including Li trouncing Anthony Anderson with cable ties, humiliating rivals who try to muscle him in a game of park football and using Aaliyah as a blunt instrument when confronted with a female biker assassin.
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Storage 24 2012
Storage 24 made minor internet news by taking $72 on its' US box office run - it was some contract fulfillment thing naturally, but it was probably enough for the thing to turn a profit. A few cookie-cutter characters stumble around a warehouse obviously hiding from a cheap monster and not much else really happens. I like Noel Clarke and there are worst people to headline the thing but this is dull and bad.
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A Prayer for the Dying 1987
It goes about as well as a film about Mickey Rourke playing an ex-IRA hitman who falls in love with the blind daughter of an ex-paratrooper priest played by Bob Hoskins can reasonably be expected to go.
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Léon: The Professional 1994
A very-well made action thriller with a heart as Luc Besson for once gets it all just about right. It helps that Jean Reno and Natalie Portman have genuine chemistry in their double mentor/pupil relationship, and that Leon himself is a fascinating character (even if he's about as Italian as Joe Dolce). As for Gary Oldman as Stansfield he's so completely over-the-top insane that he somehow works perfectly, the old Andy Robinson gambit coming off perfectly.
That Besson later screwed the film over with a flabby 'long version' summed his career up nicely.