Deadly Target
by Charla Driver
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Actor: Aki Aleong, Byron Mann, Gary Daniels, Ken McLeod, Max GailDirector: Charla Driver
Brand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 44429
Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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- Hong Kong detective and master martial artist Charles Prince (British Kickboxing Champion Gary Daniels, Submerged) arrives in L.A. to extradite a notorious Chinese gangster back to Hong Kong for trial. But it seems Prince has arrived too late his suspect has escaped. With the help of renegade cop Jim Jenson (Ken McLeod, The Chameleon) and beautiful Pai Gow dealer Diana Tang (Susan Byun, Dead Conne
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Movie Review: "How do you destroy a [damn] elevator?!"
Summary: 3 Stars
"Deadly Target" is one of several examples why Gary Daniels is a good guy of DTV action cinema: it's a fairly cheap movie with a lazy script directed by someone without a lot of experience (Charla Driver, usually a producer or assistant director), but through his efforts and those of several other talented members of the cast, it ends up being an above-average fight flick in the B-movie crowd and could've achieved a four-star rating with just a bit more oomph. It's not his best (nor that of most others involved), but is nevertheless among his personal top ten.
The story: Hong Kong detective Jack Prince (Daniels, The Expendables) follows the Triad crime lord Chang (Byron Mann, Street Fighter)to Los Angeles; paired with a renegade American cop looking to do good (Ken McCleod, Showdown), he must stop the mobster en-route to taking control of the entire Chinese mafia circuit.
The biggest qualm that I have with the film is that while it's martial arts scenes are stellar, they're polarized to the opening half-hour and final fifteen minutes of the movie. The forty minutes in-between are mainly given over to Jack's romantic relationship with a cocktail waitress (Susan Byun, Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD), which I guess is played off okay by action film standards but isn't really what we're here for, is it? Luckily, the quality of the fight scenes sustains you through these long periods of shmooziness and exposition. Disappointingly, Byron Mann doesn't fight at all, but the kicking ensemble includes B-movie dragon Ron Yuan (White Tiger), several unnamed but thoroughly capable henchmen-type guys, and - for a single encounter - the always-welcome James Lew (Balance of Power). You're entering Kick City here, with everybody in immaculate fighting shape and having been given good choreography to work with, not to mention having been shot by a competent camera crew who actually seem interested in getting the best angles of the fights.
Some of the stuntwork is overexaggerated, though (more than once, guys will sell an ordinary kick like they've been hit by a cannonball), and the car chase late in the movie probably sets a record for how long it goes on without anything exciting happening, but I don't hold these things against the film in the long run. Additionally, the acting isn't something you should get excited about: everybody either slightly underperforms (Daniels), overperforms (McCleod), or occasionally gets it right for a little bit only to screw it up in the next scene (Byun). Emmy nominee Max Gail (Barney Miller) gets to expound a bit on his role as the crotchety police captain but eventually isn't more than a one-note character. The biggest disappointment here is Byron Mann, who'd evolve into a passable thespian but can't really hide that this is his first major film role. Production values are much the same: at times, it looks like the team had the run of the city, but other scenes are uncomfortably cramped.
In short, the movie has it where it counts (action scenes) and manages to fudge or limp its way through the less important stuff (acting and production), which cumulatively makes it a treat for Gary Daniels fans, a surprisingly strong showing for the later career of the ever-underappreciated Ken McCleod, and a decent little trip back in time to before Byron Mann achieved coolness. Give it a buy!
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