The Horror Returns - TAR Quick Reviews - Romero Must Die (2000)

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Nez is back with another quick review of the 2000 Jet Li action/crime thriller ROMERO MUST DIE. When a Chinese gang lord's son is murdered in Oakland, his brother, Han, breaks out of a Hong Kong priso...n to find out how it happened and to avenge his death. He arrives on controlled turf, a waterfront run by the rival gang-lords Ch'u Sing (Han's father) and Isaak O'Day, and their respective Chinese and African-American crime organizations. When it is clear that something bigger is involved, Han teams up with O'Day's daughter Trish to continue the hunt for justice.   Join The Action Returns Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/841619946357776 Follow The Action Returns on IG and X: Instagram: @theactionreturns X: @action_returns Check out everything Horror Returns at: https://thehorrorreturns.com Join The Horror Returns Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1056143707851246 THR Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thehorrorreturns Join the THR Presents: Stream Fiends Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3860579827402429 Follow THR Stream Fiends on IG: @thrstreamfiends Hit up E Society on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/ESocietyPodcast/ ESP Podbean feed: https://macnezpodcast.podbean.com ESP Spotify feed: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/esoc Mac Nez Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7jot3LglMA0EuGTUikXejq?si=21b39da4784e4528 E Society YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCliC6x_a7p3kTV_0LC4S10A E Society and Mac-Nez t-shirts Tee Public: http://tee.pub/lic/9ko9r4p5uvE X: E Society Podcast: https://x.com/esocietypod The Zissiou: https://x.com/TheoZissou Instagram: E Society: https://www.instagram.com/esocietypod/ Mac Nez Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/macnez/ The Zissiou: https://www.instagram.com/thezissou/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@esocietypod        

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, dog. You smell something? No, I don't smell nothing. Then what hell is the takeoff for? You hungry, baby. Cover the front. Hey, dim sum! You's a real...
Starting point is 00:00:18 Now, you know, Mr. O'Day don't let things slide lightly. You also don't like the wrong element around his daughter. So what's up to me not to let it happen? Kick his ass. Now, you know, you ain't the only one that knows some shit. Yo, what up everybody? Nez here for Action Returns. Quick review.
Starting point is 00:01:06 Tonight, I am coming at you with the 2000 action thriller. Romeo must die. In a world of vicious rivalries and violent betrayals. Tricia, I can't have you hanging with you as boy. What the hell are you doing? We're in the middle of a damn war. Only one thing is certain. Sorry, Romeo.
Starting point is 00:01:28 Taking your most valued ass. Romeo must die. That was the mistake. Romeo must die. Later on, starts Wednesday, March 22nd. And this martial arts take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy and ex-policeman is jailed for a crime he didn't commit. And he breaks out to avenge his brother's death in America.
Starting point is 00:01:58 There he meets Trish O'Day. And as they fall in love, did they fall in love? Yeah, okay. helps him in his search. Her father knows more about Lee's brother's death than he should. And soon he and Lee are at war for at war with stunning Lee
Starting point is 00:02:20 choreographed action sequences. Okay. I don't know who wrote that but all right. IMDB. Quick and to the point and avenging cop seeks out his brother's killer and falls for the daughters of a businessman who is involved in a money deal
Starting point is 00:02:39 with his father. Did they even watch the movie? Don't get me wrong. Aaliyah, beautiful, beautiful young woman. Rest in peace. It's gone too soon. But I didn't see them falling in love. He was just trying to avenge his brother's death
Starting point is 00:03:01 and she got pulled into all this stuff. She knew her dad was out there doing dirt, but as well as, her brother, but I don't know who wrote this. But anyway, Romeo must die. Dark comedy. There's comedy in it.
Starting point is 00:03:17 I mean, shout out to Anthony Anderson. Gun-foo, martial arts, action, crime thriller. Yeah, I'll go with the last four. Gun-foo. That's a new one to me. This is directed by, ooh, I'm going to butcher the hell out of this name. And Rizedge, I don't know how this is pronounced it, a, a Bart Kowak.
Starting point is 00:03:44 I think that's how you pronounce it. I don't know if that. No disrespect. I have no idea. Plus you guys know I can't read for shit. But anyway, written by Mitchell Napper, Eric Bent, and John Jereau. And this stars the legendary and great Jet Lee as Han Singh. Alia as Trish O'Day, Isaiah Washington.
Starting point is 00:04:07 as Mac. Isaiah Washington. Yes, he's been in a ton of movies, but I've never really liked this actor. Just because he plays assholes, and he's an asshole in this one, so that's probably why. Again, I don't know this guy.
Starting point is 00:04:21 He might be the coolest guy in the world, but he makes me believe his characters. I mean, not to say that he is the asshole that he is, but I don't know. Again, I don't know the man, but everything I see him in, he's always the asshole. So, good for him.
Starting point is 00:04:35 Keep on working. Russell Wong as Kai. Russell Wong. I know he's been in a ton of shit, but I only remember him in this and in New Jack City. Okay, I guess he was his mummy, Tomb of the Dragon Empire. I've never seen that one, so I have no idea.
Starting point is 00:04:56 True Crime Street to L.A. Okay, that's a video game. High potential. I haven't watched that show yet. Cliff for the Big Red Dog. Never seen that. Westworld. I don't remember him in that
Starting point is 00:05:12 well I kind of tapped out during the second season because I really didn't I didn't care but let me see Supergirl I don't remember him in that Lethal weapon I tried to get in that show I couldn't do it A lot of TV this gentleman
Starting point is 00:05:32 Nikita I did watch that full run, but I couldn't, that was a while ago. 2010 when that show started, I don't remember him in it. Yeah, a lot of TV, some movies. I guess I'm going to go back and watch more of his bigger things. Movie-wise, I don't know if I can get into a whole TV series. I do kind of want to watch Nikita again. That was a good show.
Starting point is 00:06:07 Shout out to Maggie Q. also Academy Award nominee Delroy Lindo he got robbed in my opinion but he's always good I loved him as um what was his name and uh blood in blood out
Starting point is 00:06:23 some one of you guys are screaming it um I keep thinking a diamond dog but that's what's his name from uh conair Ving Rames Marcellus Wallace uh
Starting point is 00:06:39 Where is it? It should be... Did he do blood out? Blood and blood out before? Romeo must tell you? I guess he did. Oh, Ransom. He was, I forgot he was in that.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Clockers, he was good. Congo, I haven't seen that a long time. Okay, he was bona fide and bloodied and blood out. But he's been in a ton of things. He's a legendary actor. And if you haven't seen sinners yet, where I'm sure a lot of you have, you guys know how awesome he was in that.
Starting point is 00:07:09 A DB Woodside is. Colin, that was Alia's brother. Henry O. as Chu Singh, he's been in a ton of things. John Kit Lee, Eduardo,
Starting point is 00:07:21 Ballarini. He's also been in a ton of things. And he's always the asshole. I know I've seen him in some TV shows and some smaller films running down his filmography. I don't know. don't see okay remember him in 24 which was an amazing show you guys haven't seen any of that
Starting point is 00:07:51 shout out to keeper seven but yeah he's done a lot of tv um but yeah he's the one of the one of the asshole bad guys in this and of course the great anthony anderson and legendary DMX as silk rest in peace and a bunch of other guys in it but anyway romeo must die uh i i When did I see this? Hmm. I rented it first and then one of these old theaters when they were bringing back Jet Lee films. I saw it in the theater.
Starting point is 00:08:37 But the initial, when it first came out, I missed the first run. And I rented it on DVD. I mean, I missed the rental days. It was just fun going to those places and just spending hours and hours. hours and hours in there and sometimes not even leaving with anything but it was a new release at the time so i i picked it up jet lee he was like way under my radar i didn't know who he was until lethal weapon four and when i seen that i was like who is this guy then i went back and didn't realize he had so many other movies under his belt so i started uh watching all the his older um martial
Starting point is 00:09:14 arts films and after lethal weapon four was kind of when he had a surge of movies movies this and what was that other one when he had the collar around his neck, Unchained I think And then the one I know a lot of people hate that movie the one I love that movie It's goofy and that's what I enjoy The Mummy, I haven't seen that one yet
Starting point is 00:09:35 And he's got a ton of other Other films out there And then he started doing the big epic films Which I tried watching one of them And I just couldn't get into it But anyway Romeo I must die This film is amazing. I love it.
Starting point is 00:09:53 The soundtrack is awesome as well. Alia and DMX have some songs in there, as well as one together, I believe. But this one starts out as, I'm reading this on Wikipedia. Posting is the youngest son of Chinese triad boss Chun Singh, who is accosted by African Americans in a nightclub owned by Silk in Oakland, California. Okay. For those of you that are from the Bay, from the town, This was not shot in Oakland.
Starting point is 00:10:22 I believe this was shot somewhere in Canada. Let me see. It says the film is set in Oakland, California, but other than a few establishing shots, film production was entirely shot. Excuse me, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Because, yeah, when I first heard, yeah, they're in Oakland and da-da-da-da.
Starting point is 00:10:45 And me being from the town, born and raised, I was like, oh, hell yeah. And then I'm watching the movie and like, this ain't Oakland. So, but, yeah, you go where it's cheap to make your film. So, Poe was rescued by an, Amish by a Cai's Choose Chief Lieutenant. Poe leaves the club, but he's found murdered the next day. All right.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Yeah, so we kind of have this montage in the beginning of cool music, cars driving around. and uh, Poe Singh, um, Jet Lee's little younger brother in this. He is, he is, uh,
Starting point is 00:11:27 Jet Lee. His little brother, he's, he's living life, girls, loud music, drugs, booze and all that.
Starting point is 00:11:36 But he goes into this, into this black club, uh, in the downtown area. And then they kind of like, they know who he is, but they're kind of like, now you,
Starting point is 00:11:45 you need to get out of here. So, but he's kind of like just Mr. I'm not going nowhere and then what's his name what's his name comes in what the guy's that guy's name
Starting point is 00:12:00 Russell Wong Kai he comes in and he's like come on man you know you're not here we're not one here let's go but Poe's kind of like what are you talking about but then that's when all the bodyguards all the bouncers and everybody get involved and then they kind of have a little a little scuff
Starting point is 00:12:17 with the martial martial arts action Kai's the one he kicks ass Okay, I loved all the fighting and which was awesome But this was the time of The wire Martial arts fighting I was never really a fan of it I mean I know you got to wire up some guys
Starting point is 00:12:37 I mean the Matrix did it was that one movie Couching Tiger hidden dragon But those were That was a reason why you could do that like in the Matrix, you're in the Matrix and you pretty much do if you believe in that you can do whatever you want and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Starting point is 00:12:54 the reason they were flying around and all that was because of whatever kind of style that was I can't really remember that film but this it was just like it was some of it was kind of ridiculous and there's plenty scenes in this film as well as other films
Starting point is 00:13:10 that use the wiring I mean you watch those old Wu Tang Shaolin movies they did it right. This one, in these, especially in this one, there's scenes where when they're fighting, you can see the actor holding the wire. Of course, it's erased with computers and everything,
Starting point is 00:13:30 but you can clearly see they're holding it to do these kicks or punches or whatever. And it just, to me, it's just me. I don't make movies. I'm just a fat old man behind a microphone, talking shit. But it just looked tacky to me. And because I even the first time I watched this, I was kind of like, okay, you can clearly see him holding on. But again, I get it.
Starting point is 00:13:54 For the shot that they need, I guess it would be hard not to hold that wire. I mean, if any of you stunt guys or stunt women out there that do this type of stuff and use the wiring, I would love to hear it. I mean, again, like I said, I know nothing about this. I'm just a fat dude talking shit. But I don't know. I just didn't like them grabbing the wire because you can clearly see that they're holding on to it. Jet Lee as well, especially during this thing, Russell Wong, when he's doing, you can see him holding onto it and doing the kicks. But not to take away from the film.
Starting point is 00:14:31 It was cool because when I did see it, I was like, woo, I mean, you guys want to see an awesome film. Go see the Furious. Listen to the next East Society for my review on that. Anyway, so they get into this big old fight. then DMX comes out with a machine gun fires it in the air and yells at everyone I can't remember exactly what he said but basically get the hell out of my club
Starting point is 00:14:51 so they all kind of leave but Kai is kind of telling Paul like look dude you you can't hang here I know you got some stuff your dad's and your dad and these guys are doing something going on but you
Starting point is 00:15:07 you can't be here so he's kind of like all right man whatever so he leaves next scene we get a little young kid right along doing this paper route and then he kind of stops and looks up and then the camera pans back and we see Poe hanging from
Starting point is 00:15:21 from a telephone street light and he's murdered so they really don't know go to China I don't know exactly where but Jet Lee's character Han he is
Starting point is 00:15:38 in prison he kind of gets the news that his brother was murdered so he kind of just loses it and he's trying to figure out how to get out. He gets into a scuffle with the guards and everything. And Jet Lee, he's amazing. Like I said, first time I seen him in was in Lethal Weapon 4, but he kicked ass in this movie.
Starting point is 00:15:57 So it was awesome that he was doing it. So I really enjoyed every time he was on the screen kicking ass. So anyway, so Han figures out a way to escape and gets to America. uh they they kind of just go quick quick thing he gets that he breaks out of prison next you know he's on a plane he's flying here uh to sunny california aka uh Canada um and he gets there and he tries to figure out what's going on he does kind of visit his dad because his dad is here in america and then we find out that his dad had some dirt going on in china but if he didn't uh if he didn't leave he was going to get arrested and Han was a cop and he knew his dad was doing dirt but Han took the took the fall
Starting point is 00:16:49 because he did tell him because his dad was like thank you for for doing what what you did and Han was like I I couldn't let them take you down or whatever he was he was more of like an honor type of thing and he was like I'm I shouldn't have done that but uh I went to jail for you and the other reason why uh my brother is dead and his dad's kind of like well you know I'm doing my thing and all this and thank you for doing that but Han just wasn't happy he didn't want nothing to do with him so he kind of ends up leaving and then when he's leaving he gets he meets Kai and Kai's like hey man it's good seeing you haven't seen you in a while and then they kind of talk for a little bit and then they they get into it it was just more out of fun because they're both they're both really good at their martial arts style so they kind of get into a quick little not really a fight fight but they're just like throwing punches and kicks but blocking each other's everyone and they kind of like smile and then walk off so Han from the rest of the film he's trying to figure out who these guys are that killed his brother and along the way that's when we get alia's character
Starting point is 00:18:00 uh she gets she gets pulled into it but before all of that um there's a db woodside Colin O'Day, Trish's brother, and Delaware Lindo is the leader of that crew. And what's his name is like, second in command? Isaiah Washington, Mac. And Anthony Anderson is just, other than the comic relief, he's one of the muscle for, he basically, they all work for Isaac O'Day,
Starting point is 00:18:31 but Isaac is kind of in charge of all the foot soldiers. So, but we see that Trish's brother Colin he's got some kind of stuff going on he's trying to figure out their whole thing is they're trying to buy the the main bad guys they're trying to buy all of the waterfront
Starting point is 00:18:52 of there's fishermen and just all the shipping stuff that goes on down there they do do all that in Oakland I mean mainly all the fishing and everything is in San Francisco but as far as like the big giant ship tankers and everything they all come into the port of Oakland and they all do all that type of stuff there. I think they do some stuff over in San Francisco, but I'm not really sure.
Starting point is 00:19:15 I'm just familiar with all the stuff I've seen growing up over on the Oakland side. But anyway, so basically what they were trying to do is they wanted to buy up all the property right there and they wanted to build a stadium for then the Oakland Raiders. Fuck the Raiders. Vegas, you guys suck. You guys know my stance on all that. anyway and there was one time
Starting point is 00:19:38 that they were talking about building a stadium in West Oakland on the water I was like okay but then when you really go into the politics of it all they were basically
Starting point is 00:19:51 not really trying to strong arm the people like they are in this movie to get rid of all of them off the waterfront but they were trying to pay people off to buy their land
Starting point is 00:20:04 so they could could build a stadium there but it just people didn't want it nobody uh agreed with it all so they just kind of just aced it now they're digging a hole in Vegas and i don't know how all that thing is going on down there for the athletics but um i don't know i hear they're going to change their name change the colors i don't know i fuck them i'm i'm i'm kill a cali for life no i couldn't go across the Bay of San Francisco Giants. I had to go with the San Francisco Giants as one of the main rivals, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Back-to-back World Series champions. Anyway, and I jumped on that bandwagon before they made it to their first win. Two years ago, their first World Series win. I was on that. I jumped on then then. And if you do, I'm sorry, I'm going through all this. When I did mention when the A's leave, I was going to be a. Dodger fan and that was way
Starting point is 00:21:01 before they even made the playoffs or anything. So all you guys that are saying that, oh, he only jumped on because he's a bandwagoner and I jumped on before all of that. So F you guys that think that. Anyway, sorry about it. Sorry about the rain. Anyway, so that's what they were doing.
Starting point is 00:21:17 They wanted to buy up all the property on the waterfront so they can build a new stadium and have a new expansion team there. Excuse me. So that's what they were doing. And then they had Isaiah Washington Mac his crew going there and trying to strong arm
Starting point is 00:21:34 and bully some of the guys to get out of they're basically sticking guns on their head look if you don't cough up your land and give me your deed I'm going to kill you so it was that type of stuff that they were doing the white guys in this that were the bad dudes
Starting point is 00:21:48 they popped in and out it was mainly uh Isaig O'Day Deloie Lindo's crew and Isaiah Washington Mac them trying to do it all. And while all that is happening, Trish, Aaliyah, she has her own little business in the downtown area and she's just trying to do her thing, do good for the community for the kids, which is amazing. And, but everybody knows who her dad is. So she is, she's not
Starting point is 00:22:20 involved with what goes on in his organization. She's just trying to separate herself, do good the community so and all this Han is trying to figure out who killed his brother so slowly he starts going he goes to his brother's apartment uh he starts digging through some things starts messing with the phone he finds out that his brother called uh where trish worked i can't remember exactly the name of the place some little uh night not night club uh some kind of like a store like a clothing store and in a hangout for for kids um so he kind of figured that out so he kind of starts linging going around down there trying to figure out what's going on. But all on that, we got Anthony Anderson doing his thing and he's hell of funny.
Starting point is 00:23:03 So while, while Han is trying to figure it all out, we see that Alia's brother, Isaac, Colin, he, we see he's trying to do something too. But then all of a sudden he gets murdered, he gets thrown out, him and his girlfriend get thrown out of their apartment buildings. Now they're trying to figure out who killed him. So while all that's trying to figure out who killed Colin and why, Han's trying to figure out who killed his brother and why. He knows his dad's involved in it somehow.
Starting point is 00:23:40 And then this is how he gets pulled into Isaac O'Day's, Delaware Lindo's camp and everything. So he's going through his daughter, Trish, Alia, trying to figure out what's going on. Why was his brother calling her store and who was he dealing? with so he's doing all of this and along the way they're trying to close out that deal for the football stadium but along the way we get
Starting point is 00:24:06 some awesome martial arts fights there's one scene in it when Han goes to see Aaliyah he meets her in the park and Isaiah Washington Mac he knows that the Chinese and the black guys
Starting point is 00:24:22 the black gangsters are are kind of at beef because they think that the Chinese killed no the Chinese crew thinks that the black crew killed Poe so
Starting point is 00:24:39 they kind of like they look at Asian people differently and then when Max sees that Alia Trish is talking to Han he's kind of like you need to really keep that he sends Anthony Anderson what was his name again Maurice. She called him a bunch of other things. I can't remember. Anyway,
Starting point is 00:24:59 so they kind of have him, look, you need to watch her. So they're out playing football, and then they, uh, Max, he's a, Han talking to Trish. So he's kind, hey man, come over, you should have play ball with us. And then we have this, this football scene of them playing in the park. Han doesn't know American football. So, they're basically just roughing him up.
Starting point is 00:25:21 And they did the, the wires. stuff here as well because there's a scene when Han gets hit and he like spins like a top in the air and like you clearly see he's on ropes but it's just my my my frowns
Starting point is 00:25:38 upon all this shit but anyway this scene's funny and then he kind of turns it on him he ends up beating the hell out of all of him but uh Jet Lee's English isn't the great it might be better now uh I know I follow his daughter on Instagram and he does sound better English-wise than when
Starting point is 00:25:57 he first started doing American movies but so as as the film goes on they're still trying to figure out who's who's doing what martial arts fight there's an awesome fight scene when Han goes to Trish's this is kind of earlier in the film when Han follows Trish
Starting point is 00:26:17 and goes to her apartment to talk to her because he's telling that look some of my brother called or talk to somebody at this number and this number is to your your business and she kind of like well I did see my brother sometimes he comes in and uses the phone so they kind of figure out that
Starting point is 00:26:34 maybe her brother's got something to do with it so he goes to his house and then Maurice Anthony Anderson and the rest of the crew they kind of get there and they see they bust into the house and Han is kind of like all right thank you
Starting point is 00:26:50 thank you and he walks out and then they're like, who's he? And they go, oh, he's the delivery man. And then they go, oh, then they kind of start looking around. They go, I don't see no takeout. And then they go running after him. So Han is walking down the stairs. And Maurice goes running after him.
Starting point is 00:27:06 This is funny because Maurice kept calling him dim sum. So he was out. Then they get into a big old fight. Earlier in the film, Han went to like a Ace hardware or something. Got some zip ties and all kinds of everything. So while he's kicking. ass and fighting these guys. He's kicking ass, but not really like killing kicking ass.
Starting point is 00:27:27 He's just doing enough to just beat him up and leave him. But he's so quick, he uses zip ties to tie their legs or tie their hands. At one point, he ties this one guy bent his arm. He stuck a zip tie over it and basically just tightened his arm. Some of you probably know. I'm describing it all wrong. Some of you guys have seen this film, though. He zip ties his arm so he can't even bend at the elbow.
Starting point is 00:27:52 so or he can't uh straighten his arm it's just zip tight tight so he's beating the hell out of them and he gets in their car and i love this line goes free and he goes i love america free cars he jumps in and takes one of their SUVs so all this is going on they we do see a flashback to or we see uh when hon goes into i'm jumping all over the place when this part was kind of sad uh hon goes he goes to his brother's apartment when he's really trying to look for clues and everything and he finds his old basketball. It's deflated in the closet.
Starting point is 00:28:26 And then he has a flashback. I don't know the situation. We see Han and his brother Poe when they're kids and they're out in the water. And like in the ocean somewhere off the coast of wherever China. And they're holding on to a basketball. And Han is telling Po, just hang on to me. We'll just swim for shore. So they basically held on to that.
Starting point is 00:28:52 basketball which kept them afloat and they kicked their way all the way back to shore so uh during his brother's funeral service he walked over with the the basketball and he uh put it by his brother that part was it was kind of rough to watch um so but so back he's still trying to figure out what's going on alia she's getting involved now because she knows something's going on into it uh they he even got her into it a little scuffle. There's a scene where the motorcycle guys
Starting point is 00:29:25 are chasing after him so it's a car chase it's Han and Trish they're flying all over the place and then they kind of stop under this bridge and they have this fight and Han is fighting
Starting point is 00:29:37 whoever it is but they have a motorcycle helmet on but he gets to a point where he pulls the helmet off and it's a girl or female and Asian woman so Chinese woman
Starting point is 00:29:48 so she starts kicking ass and Trish is like what are you waiting for and he goes it's a woman I can't hit her and she goes look I don't know where you're from but where I'm from when a girl's kicking your ass you do something about it so he grabs
Starting point is 00:30:02 her he grabs Trish Han grabs Trish and she's basically punching and kicking this this woman and that they're fighting so the scene is cool but Alia she's doing her thing
Starting point is 00:30:17 so they're just kicking ass and And they did this stuff in this film during a few scenes. I think he kicked her or she kicked her. Han did something spun Alia off his back and she kicked that woman that they were fighting. She falls backwards. But then it goes to an animated like an X-ray style. And we see the skull and the heart.
Starting point is 00:30:46 She falls back and there's like a piece of rebar or something sticking out of this rubble. of rock and that girl falls on it and they basically stabs her heart doesn't go all the way through her but enough to go and stab her and a heart and kill her so now they really know that this this is they're trying to kill both of them so he's he's trying to put her and poe hans trying to figure out he thought the the black crew was trying to kill him but now he sees it that uh this woman was was chinese because he even yelled he's Chinese so he's trying to figure out like well what's going on I thought this was a different kind of beef and he doesn't know what's happening later we find out what's going on which I won't get into but um I'm kind of wrapping this up right now but you guys see in the movie it's streaming
Starting point is 00:31:40 I think you have to rent it I have the Blu-ray that's how I watched it so that's pretty much what is going on they're trying to figure out who killed Poe Hans brother who killed Trish's brother O'Day and why and this battle for the Oakland waterfront for the stadium and there's some other stuff going on involved in this but along the way there's some awesome fights and there's a huge awesome fight scene at the end uh with uh Han and Kai Russell Wong a lot of rope action and everything with that there's one scene I can tell you this scene that Viva was you've seen it um there's one part where uh kai kicks this um did he kick it or
Starting point is 00:32:24 i can't remember but there's this big they're the fighting at the uh i think um hans dad's place and there's this little uh metal bowl type of thing that's got some hot coals in it and then han gets it and kind of kicks it over toward i think he kicked it or picked it up i can't remember over to han han grabs it but he sticks his hands there and his hands are just touching hot metal. You can hear the sizzling and Han and screaming and Kai is holding it on to him and then he kind of falls off and then Kai grabs
Starting point is 00:33:02 Han's hand and goes give me some skin and he just rakes his fingers across Hans' burnt up flesh and he's ah he's screaming and then Han really gets pissed off and starts kicking ass but that whole fight scene at the end was awesome plus the other stuff that's in between uh when hans brings into action this is a really good film i really loved it i love um not every jet lee film but i think once he started doing the the american type of stuff i thought it was really good um that other one he did that was another one um i guess i should go down his his uh filmography really quick um Let me see. I'm going to start with lethal weapon.
Starting point is 00:33:53 That's when he really started doing the... Okay, lethal weapon four came out in 98. Oh, right after this one, a few years, two years later was Romeo must die. Kiss of the Dragon. That's a really good one. You guys should check that one out. I just recently watched that one as well. That was streaming on stars.
Starting point is 00:34:11 I'm not sure if it still is now. But that one was good. And let me see what else. Okay, Romeo, I kissed the dragon. Okay, after Kiss the Dragon the same year, 2001 was the one. Hero is when I kind of started to, because that was one of those big epic ones. Cradle to the Grave, that one was cool. That was when he teamed up with DMX and Anthony Anderson came back as well as that one.
Starting point is 00:34:41 And the beautiful Kelly Who and Gabriel Union and that one as well. I haven't seen that in a while. I should dig that one out. I think I have it. Let me see. What else came after that? Unleashed. Oh, that was the one.
Starting point is 00:34:58 I think I said uncaged or something. Unleashed, that one was pretty badass. Then war. That one he did with Jason Statham. That one was cool. And then he started doing the big epic ones, the Forbidden Kingdom, the Mummy. I'm just jumping through some of the stuff.
Starting point is 00:35:15 And the expendables, I was like, oh, he's in it, but he was only in it, like, just a little bit. Expendables two as well, and expendables three. He's in it, but he's not like in it. He pops in and kicks ass for a few minutes. I don't know. Those cast was so big and everything. My favorite one was the second one, but I think they just totally wasted John Claude Van Dam. He's in Milan?
Starting point is 00:35:40 I guess I should watch that one. But anyway, he started popping up. He started doing the movies. I think he's still working? I don't see a future projects thing. But yeah, all the... He was in Hitman. Oh, that was something else.
Starting point is 00:36:04 But he... I guess he started filming, working, and I'm just going by what IMDB says. 82? He did a lot of stuff before... So 82 all the way up to... Okay, 98 is when he came on to my scene With the Lethal Wept 4.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Oh, Black Mask. That came out in 96. That's when I started going backwards Watching all his stuff. I remember Black Mask. I remember Fista Legend. Then there was some other ones. I can't remember.
Starting point is 00:36:39 Older ones when he was really young. I can't remember a lot of those ones. But once he started... after lethal weapon, I was watching everything that came out in the theater. And then, of course, it started dwindling down into VODs and all that type of stuff. But, I mean, Jet Li's an amazing actor. And like I said, his English is a lot better now because I don't remember him speaking English in lethal weapon? If he did, he might have said a word or two because the majority of it, when he did speak, he was speaking in Chinese.
Starting point is 00:37:14 but anyway Romeo must die it is an awesome film definitely check it out I don't see it streaming anywhere but you can probably have to just rent it or if you have the Blu-ray VHS or DVD it's just if you haven't seen it in a while
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