China O'Brien

A clumsy direct-to-video release, CHINA O'BRIEN is an attempt by executive producer Raymond Chow to push Cynthia Rothrock into the American action market. With her pudgy-cheeked, all-American good looks, Rothrock is already a big kung fu star in Asia, courtesy of Chow's unexported but superior Hong Kong-produced action movies.

Faced with heat from her superiors after shooting and killing a criminal, urban police officer China O'Brien (Cynthia Rothrock) resigns from the force, then returns home to small-town Utah where her sheriff father (David Blackwell) is gradually losing control of law and order to local underworld kingpin Sommers (Steven Kerby), who contro...