Kick Fire - Without any warning

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Movie
German title Kick Fire - Without any warning
Original title Best of the Best: Without Warning
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Phillip Rhee
script Phillip Rhee
Fred Vicarel
production Phillip Rhee,
Peter E. Strauss
music David Grant
camera Michael D. Margulies
cut Bert Lovitt
occupation

Kick Fire - Without Warning (OT: Best of the Best: Without Warning ) is an American martial arts film by Phillip Rhee in 1998. The film, the fourth part of the best-of-the-Best - Film series and at the same time its conclusion.

action

A criminal group led by the two dissimilar brothers Lukasz and Yuri Slava first occupied a traffic control center and caused traffic chaos to steal a CD with artwork for US dollar bills, as well as printing paper and several printing plates from the treasury of the United States without being noticed.

Tommy Lee moved back to Los Angeles with his daughter Stephanie after the death of his wife and works as a martial arts trainer for the police. While shopping at an old friend's house to bake his daughter's birthday cake, Mickey, the shopkeeper's daughter, storms in, followed by gang members. She stole the CD with the artwork and slips it under Tommy unnoticed. In the subsequent firefight, Mickey dies and her father is seriously injured. Back home, Tommy is also attacked, but can fend off the attack. He escapes with his daughter and seeks help from policeman Jack. However, this works for the gangsters and tries to kill him. In self-defense, Tommy shoots his former friend, but is observed. On the run from the police, he hides his daughter with a pastor and drives to a friend of Mickey's, who works for the Drug Enforcement Administration and who wanted to give Mickey the CD. But the gangsters get wind of the matter and smuggle in Karina, whom Tommy overpowers and takes prisoner.

Tommy is tortured by Yuri. To buy time, he sends him to the wrong place to pick up the disc. Tommy can free himself and tries to get to his daughter. Yuri, a thug and Karina are already waiting for him there. Tommy hands them the disc. When Lukasz arrives, he orders Karina and the thug to shoot the two of them and the pastor and make it look like an accident. Karina doesn't have the heart to shoot Tommy's daughter. She kills her accomplice, but is fatally hit herself. Tommy grabs a bomb with a time fuse and races after the brothers. At the airport he faces Yuri and receives support from Jack's former partner, Detective Gresko, who discovered Jack's secret. Although Tommy succeeds in defeating Yuri, Yuri can escape. Tommy grabs the bomb and manages to place it on the plane taking off. The plane explodes with Yuri and Lukasz on board.

background

Kick Fire - Without any warning , Phillip Rhees is the second directorial work. Although the character has the same name as in the previous films and there are also various allusions to the previous parts in the film, there is no continuity, especially to Best of the Best 3 - No Turning Back . The mother of Tommy's daughter was not seen in the previous films, especially not in the third one, where Gina Gershon plays Tommy's friend.

The film was released on video by Paramount Pictures in Germany and cut in several places despite being FSK-18 . A DVD version has not yet been released.

criticism

According to many critics, Kick Fire is the weakest part of the series, which is mainly due to the stereotypical story and the bad direction. The martial arts insoles were also criticized.

“Stereotypical thriller in high-tech guise, which was developed without a minimum of narrative care. Since only inferior work was done in the action scenes, the viewer's curiosity remains unsatisfied. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview. Online film database , accessed October 10, 2010 .
  2. ↑ criticism. Cinema.de , accessed on October 10, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Kick Fire - Without any warning. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used