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Born To Defense

1986, Movie, R, 91 mins

Born To Defense: Review

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Though known for his agility and electrifying presence, Chinese martial-arts legend Jet Li apparently didn't feel those qualities were useful in his directorial debut. Fortunately, he retained them as the star of this xenophobic junk. In 1945, Allied Forces soldier Jet (Jet Li) returns to the Chinese village of Tsing Tao and discovers that not all G.I. Joes are liberators. Crushed by post-war vicissitudes, Jet's beloved Lieutenant Xiang is now a rickshaw driver. Worse yet, the occupying Navy regards Jet's hometown as a sort of plantation and treats the residents as their slaves. The foreign devils bet on Caucasian gobs to pummel locals like Jet in matches where the Yank fighters always have the advantage. On the streets, the neighborhood's fair flowers survive by become prostitutes. When the Lieutenant learns that his missing daughter is turning tricks, he disowns her for being "worse than dead." Failing to keep his sailors under control, the Naval Captain (Kurt Roland Petersson) turns a blind eye when his thugs bully the peasants with impunity. Obsequiously, the local police follow suit. Angered that Jet can hold his own against them, the Captain's platoon retaliates by putting the Lieutenant in the hospital. They also smash his rickshaw after Jet takes over his route. Although the Lieutenant's daughter abandons the world's oldest profession to care for her papa. the nasty seamen kidnap her for an intended gang rape. In the course of a subsequent rescue attempt, the foreign devils push the Lieutenant and his daughter off the roof of a building. Mad as hell, Jet avenges these deaths and challenges the fearsomely gigantic Captain. Can Jet's righteous anger help him prevail against his country's invited invaders? Just as its title seems grammatically challenged (it's also known as BORN TO DEFEND), so, too, is this direct-to-video kickboxing import a victim of misbegotten construction. Jet Li should have spent more time working on the script's flaccid arc and less time training the stunt men, who achieve heights that elude the director. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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