War
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 33 Ratings

  • Starring: Jason Statham, Jet Li, Nadine Velazquez
  • Summary: After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue, FBI agent Jack Crawford vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later, when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardizes his professional judgment, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face-to-face with his enemy to discover that nothing about Rogue or his plan is quite what it seems. (Lions Gate) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 15
  2. Negative: 5 out of 15
  1. Reviewed by: Marc Bernardin
    67
    There are few cinematic crimes more heinous than making a boring action movie. Sadly, that's what the first hour of Triads-versus-Yakuza thriller War is.
  2. Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    50
    Quickly devolves into a standard-issue crime drama laced with routine martial artistry.
  3. 42
    In spite of a late-game adrenaline surge, the hoped-for fireworks between Li and Statham never quite materialize.
  4. Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    30
    War ties itself in knots trying to bring something new to a stale formula. It's never painful to watch, but that's only because it provokes no feeling at all.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 18
  2. Negative: 5 out of 18
  1. tylerh
    10
    this movie was packed with action from the get go and u don t see that, that much anymore
  2. AlejandroR.
    7
    The action in this movie was pretty good, it had swords, guns, and hand-to-hand combat. It also had some twists, which were entertaining. The ending had many people in the theater confused. I was looking forward to more fights between Jet Li and Jason Statham. The plot was pretty interesting. Either you are gonna love or hate the ending, no in betweens. Expand
  3. EricM
    7
    I thought this was an alright movie.
  4. MikeM.
    4
    Mindless in the way that it tries to put so much of that pretentious intelligence into an action movie, it loses touch with itself. This isnt a cobweb, because cobwebs are neat and constructed. Its literally a desk, full of papers scattered all over the place, placed in drawers and forgotten about, some even lying on the floor with coffee spilled all over them so they're basically pointless. Jason Statham plays a man who lost his partner, and when he finds out who did it, a man named Rogue (played by Jet Li), he goes out on a man hunt. The character Rogue.....well, don't bother trying to figure out just what the story is on him. The entire story is wrought with double-crosses, backstabs and kill after kill after kill, but it ultimately leaves you unsatisfied. You wait for the showdown between Statham and Li, and what they deliver is hardly a good recreation of the great Norris vs. Lee fight, and the "final climax twist," just leaves you feeling even more unfulfilled. With two of the most popular bodies of martial arts, there is so much more that could have been done here. Maybe Mr. Atwell should have spent less time trying to spin our heads around, and more time giving us what we wanted- toe-to-toe matchups, wall-to-wall fighting. Expand

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