Review of Shinjuku Incident (2009) by Mesha B — 22 May 2013

The story is set in Japan and stars Jackie Chan as Steelhead, a tractor repairman who while living his life as an immigrant, travels to Tokyo to in search for his missing girlfriend Xiu Xiu who vanished into thin air shortly after arriving in the city.

After locating his brother Joe, Steelhead discovers that Xiu Xiu has adapted a Japanese identity and married up-and-coming yakuza chief Eguchi with whom he forms an uneasy alliance. Steelhead earns the respect of his fellow Chinese immigrants by establishing a place for them to gather.

dark side still beckons to Steelhead, because after helping Eguchi with a powerful rival, he is granted full control of Shinjuku's most popular nightspots. Steelhead discovers a new love and opens a tractor-repair business just outside the city.

When Eguchi begins using Steelhead's fellow immigrants as pawns to front the yakuza's drug trade, the vengeful immigrant returns to the city determined to exact justice, even if it means destroying the future of the woman he once loved.

While this movie shows a decent message about the society and it works well as a drama with only one to ten percent of action, it doesn't deliver much and it is not that exciting nor interesting. It's just the innocent fighting over the dark side and winning their freedom in which we've seen this story many times; it's basically pride and prejudice.

Shinjuku Incident gets a weak 6/10.