At least that's what I thought during the first half, where things went dead frozen... but the latter half kind of redeemed itself. I would say the overall result is above disaster, but below enjoyable.

I usually have high tolerance for this kind of modern action movie--a la Tokyo Raiders and Bad Boy TeGong, but "Hot War" is clearly a lesser effort. Try as he might, Ekin Cheng is simply atrocious at acting.

[5/10]