The reason for watching this movie is, as you all know, this is the English movie starring Rajinikanth. It deals with a stolen rare gem stone called Bloodstone. It is very funny (as usual) to see how the Americans see India. Comparatively, this is far clean. The huge failure of this film discouraged more Indo-American collaboration. Otherwise, we should have more films, just like other (East) Asian-American mix.

Competent action director Dwight Little's, Nico Mastorakis scripted, delightfully exotic far-flung comedic adventure, while infrequently mentioned, is, perhaps, one of the more neglected treasures in maverick filmmaker Mastorakis's frequently fantastic far out oeuvre! While this exciting, perfectly perilous yarn is colourfully inspired by the whip-cracking wonder of Indiana Jones ceaseless crusades and Michael Douglas's wholesome partnership with Kathleen Turner in action comedy smash 'Romancing The Stone' it nonetheless has quite the idiosyncratic personality of its own, namely that of Bloodstone's consistently effervescing star, Tamil film icon Rajinikanth, playing the slick-witted, cab-driving, deadly knife throwing Shyam Sabu.

What might have been a rather penurious looking B-Movie cash in is in actuality quite an accomplished work of exhilarating escapist fiction. Somewhat bland newly-weds are barely into their honeymoon holiday when two unsavoury-looking goons proceed to aggressively pursue the couple, searching for the notorious, fantastically fabled Bloodstone after another especially stealthy minion of explicitly evil B-Movie double-dealing despot, national treasure nabbing Van Hoeven (Christopher Neame) surreptitiously snuck into Mrs. McVey's (Anne Nicholas) travel bag, thereby engendering a thrilling series of scintillating narrow escapes, bravura fight scenes and adrenalized, amusingly madcap chases, with dynamic Kollywood superstar Rajinikanth making for a quip-tastic, quick-fisted enigmatic and not infrequently hilarious hero!

One of Arrow Videos more welcome restorations, Dwight Little's 'Bloodstone' is a fast-moving, multifaceted, exhilaratingly exotic adventure, with its exquisite Indian setting and a truly priceless lead performance by Tamil cinema mega-star Rajinikanth, this kaleidoscopic, action-packed Blu-ray spectacular is a burnished B-movie jewel whose minor flaws only merely increase its rare entertainment value!

One of the worst, but I just watched it for Neame. He was the only one that could act. Quite awful.