Rogue Assassin

Rogue Assassin or in the US the title of this movie is, War. Not sure why it got different version of tittle for different countries, but hey, I'm more interested about the movie. So, here goes..

Ever since The Transporter, I have this fascination over Jason Statham. I always picture him as this cool cold dude, hit man like, with dangerous quality and swift moves. And if you ask me, I’ll say he should be the hit man in the Hitman movie instead of Timothy Olyphant. Seriously!

And I’ve always like Jet Li. I think he’s the next Bruce Lee. And off I went, to watch this movie because my first impression was; this movie has the coolest casts’ combination.

Rogue Assassin was about a war between the Triad and the Yakuza. Here’s a simple picture, the Triad go around and killed the Yakuza. The Yakuza go around and killed the Triad. The FBI enters the war and killed everybody!

Sounds simple right? Well, pretty much. The main reason why this movie was good, at least, the most part of it, was the action and the blood. It’s a whole kick-ass movie filled wit guns, nice cars, kung fu, and ninjas too. Plus, Jason Statham driving an old American car trying to race with Jet Li with his super cool car (which I don’t remember what car it was, but definitely not American’s) was just classic!

I loved this movie. The most part of it, like I said. 99% of it. Until it reached the ending. The ending, oh dear.. The part when Jason made a confession to Jet Li. I won’t tell you what it is because it’ll be a spoiler. But, the confession was just dumb. That was the dumbest, lowest point of the movie. And it pretty much spoiled all the excitement and the love that I was feeling throughout the entire movie before that. Why? Why? Why?!! Why do they have to ruined it with that confession?

And because of that, my ‘ideology’ regarding Jason Statham changes. At least, for now. Not sure if I will ever recover, though. And because of that, I’m give Rogue Assassin, 2.5 out of 5 stars. Sorry, Jason..