Gosh, it sounded like such a good movie. A Stanley "I've Worked with Jackie Chan" Tong feature that star Norika Fujiwara, Mark Dacascos, and Ken "Badass Kicker in Drunken Master II" Lo. There are four major fight scenes in this movie, one of them is a kickboxing duel between Dacascos and Lo and the final battle has this gimmick that involves three fighters fighting on top of a suspended pane that is about 30 floors high, constantly balancing, fighting, and hanging on for dear lives. There are also two car chases in the movie. One of them has a motorcycle chasing a double decker and the other one an F-1 chasing a Ferrari. Oh yeah, there is also an exploding helicopter in this movie.

Okay, now let's talk about the movie that I SAW. The movie was entirely in English and Mandarin Chinese--the English dialogues were actually okay--until Aaron Kwok and Norika started talking. The fight scenes were very wired. Not Crouching Tiger type of wire, not even Iron Monkey wire, GEN-Y COPS WIRE. Most of the fight scenes involve thugs hurtling themselves at Aaron and Wong LeeHong only to be stopped by their lethal gravity defying kicks. Couple of those kicks basically had the actors being dragged around by wires, trying to keep balance and not die.

The kickboxing match between Lo and Dacascos served like a basketball game in those mushy Hollywood buddy movies where they weren't REALLY playing basketball, but rather, talking about their relationships and all that good stuff while dribbling--now replace the dribbling with mid/high section roundhouse kicks and that was China Strike Force. Little choreography went into this, littler acting was there. A lot of closeups on their handsome sweaty faces though.

The final fight scene had our two badass guys Lo and Dacascos killed really early in the scene. The rest was a two on one battle between Coolio that's right Coolio and Aaron and Norika on top of a suspended window pane that is 30 floors high or something. Cheap shots at Aaron would be too easy so I'd leave him alone (plus, he tried his best). Norika, now as pretty as she was, could not fight. She had no timing and kept on missing the cues in the choreography so she made it up by constantly spinning and waving her arms so it looked like she was doing something (if you STILL don't believe me, watch it). While Coolio, our man Coolio, seemed to be in another movie all together, his moves didn't connect and no one was even fighting him. The result seemed more like a seasaw thing than a fight. Just two parties waving their arms and falling off either side of the window pane.

The car chases, let's talk about the car chases. The first one had Aaron on a motorcyle, the bad guy was on a double decker bus, how was Aaron supposed to get on there? Well, apparently the bike had some kinda invisible suction cups because it just kinda CLIMBED onto a van--Aaron leaned back on one wheel and rode it up VERTICALLY. Then he revved his motorcyle and lept onto the double decker--a stunt that would've been cool had they used a competent stunt double pulling it off in one shot, but instead we just saw a montage of hints of what he did--the take off, the jump, the landing...etc, well, plus a cute end credit sequence where they showed you Aaron's attempt at the stunt (he claimed to be the next Jackie Chan several times, no joke) and failing to do so. Aww poor Aaron.
Now the second chase. Again Aaron insisted in being in a F-1 with his face showing, so instead of a cool chase we got basically two scenes put together and they called it a chase. First we see a shot of the Ferrari driving by. Then we cut to the next shot of an F-1 driving by. Yeah both of them are pretty fast, so fast that they could NEVER be seen in one frame. Incredible.
The helicopter explosion, if you've been following this review, you'd know that it's pretty much not what it sounds like, and you're right, it's a computer generated ball of flame. Play any of them helicopter video games and crash on purpose--there you just made a special effects shot.

So there we have it, had Stanley "Mr. Magoo" Tong not try to be Hollywood and had Aaron Kwok and all the other actors NOT try to do their own stunts, we might've seen something pretty cool, but no chance here, sorry guys.