Review of Flash Point (2007) by Jiaming H — 21 Jul 2008

Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen have done it again. Yip has wasted his and Yen's talents in making a mediocre and instantly forgettable crime drama/martial arts movie. Oh, it starts out promising enough.

Yen beats up a few guys immediately, and there's a club scene with many a dancing Asian woman. For a moment there I thought Yip was making up for the colossal disappointment of "Kill Zone." Then, after an hour of boring exposition involving boring characters, actors who just don't care, inane dialog, a boring turkey exploding boringly as Yip attempts to force some emotions into a dead story, we finally get another fight.

I'll admit the final Yen showdown with some dude is quite good, with a bigger focus on the violence than the flash, but it's really the movie's only saving grace. It fails as a martial arts film--which it isn't really in the first place--and fails as a crime drama thriller type of deal.

I learned a valuable lesson from "Flash Point" and "Kill Zone," though, that you should never trust Dragon Dynasty's trailers. It's a damn waist of Donnie Yen's talent, it is.