The Eagle Way. I watched this movie on television as a child, or rather, only the second half of it. It seemed interesting and exciting to me, despite the fact that he missed the cut. Since then, there has been no opportunity to reconsider, although it should have been. They did not want to show it on TV. But then the Internet came along and everything became easier. It is time to look at it with a fuller and more conscious look.
At the time, I didn't know B Urquidez or S. Lee, their names didn't tell me anything. Now, I was pleasantly surprised to see in the cast now familiar figures. It was probably the first, and so far the only, Lee movie I’ve seen. The name of the director was not known to me at that time, but since relatively recently it has been saying a lot.
From the second viewing, more precisely, from the one and a half, he did not look much worse in my eyes, which in itself is already good. The development of events is still dynamic and fast, action is exciting, perceived easily, staged not without flaws and a large number of conventions and assumptions, but quite well and interesting, does not tire. With a short time, it looks in one breath.
Characters are spelled out in two words and then not all, but this is a common phenomenon in action films and the acting game is appropriate. I have nothing to compare S. Lee’s fighting abilities to, since it’s the only film she’s made for me, at least not yet. Of course, something she really can and shows on the screen, but this picture is difficult to assess. Unlike B. Urquidez, it is not for nothing that his fights with Jackie Chan in ' Diner on Wheels' and ' Dragons Forever' are considered one of the best hand-to-hand scenes in cinema. Here the role he has much more weight (dialogues and screen time more) than in the above tapes, as after all, the main villain, and in this hypostasis looks convincing. But there was no other such great final fight. The fight itself takes place, but I cannot call it bright, memorable, excellent. I don't know what Sh. Lee is capable of, but I've seen how Urquidez can fight. Maybe it was age, maybe it wasn’t that cool. If Jackie was on the set, I think it would be better.
The film is quite good, watchable, which combines cool action, both hand-to-hand and with firearms, a dynamic, non-sagging narrative, humorous inserts, for which a character named Tommy is responsible. And also contains love and tragedy of losses and betrayal and friendship and rivalry, in general, many similar elements that are quite organically inscribed in the plot.
7 out of 10