Thunderbolt (1995)
Reviewed by: jfierro on 1999-12-21
It's hard for me to give a meaningful review of this film as it left no impression on me whatsoever. The basic plot is that Jackie manages to get the better of a professinal race car driver (who is also a professional killer) in a race through the streets of Hong Kong. To extract revenge, the driver/killer kidnaps Jackie's sisters and forces him to race in Japan. That's pretty much it. Anita Yuen is thrown as a romantic interest, but makes absolutely no difference to the movie whatsoever. Michael Wong is wasted as well. There are some specific action shots which are extremely impressive, but no one scene ever really comes together to make movie magic. All in all, it just felt like everyone was sleepwalking. By sheer virtue of its mediocrity, this film is much better than RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, but it would be nice to see Jackie enjoy himself on screen again before he stops doing action films.