Wasabi

[pryjmaty]

We rented this last night and really liked it. It stars Jean Reno(The Professional). It was filmed in France and Japan; thus, the dialog is in those languages, but it has been dubbed in English.
There are nifty fight scenes, things going boom(not as much as, say, Lethal Weapon), and HILARIOUS dialog and interaction of the charactors. This movie compares in no way with Lethal Weapon, just used that as an example of boom factor.
Reno protrays a bad-ass cop with kind of a "Clousou" (sp?-the inspector from Pink Panther)syndrom.
I highly recommend this one.
Can I let the midgets watch it? : violence, no gore, no nudity, shows a coffin going into the creamatorium, the humor is not crude, but younger children will not get it unless they are precocious. There are quite a few shoot-outs.

[Caustic]

So, this finally got video distribution in the states, eh? Not surprising that it didn't see theatrical distro. While a fun movie, it's not one of the better Besson's produced. The pacing's a bit uneven, such as the scene where Reno's character is waiting for his daughter, which feels a tad drawn out. Fight scenes are decent, though I think there could have been more of them and they could have been better edited. I enjoyed them, don't get me wrong; I just don't think they lived up to their potential.

Dubbed? Ugh. That sounds atrocious.

[pryjmaty]

Yes, I would have much preferred subtitles. I'm not much of a film critic (i.e. editing, and all that film talk ); I just know what I, personally, like.
We also watched "Biker Zombies from Detroit" and "Flesh Hunters".
GODS They were sooooo baaad Doc thought they were hilarious, though. But then again, he likes bad movies.