TRIPLE THREAT is another action flick from director Jesse Johnson, whose SAVAGE DOG remains my favourite of his work thus far. This one's an ambitious international project, shot in Thailand with an ensemble cast mixed between good and bad guys. A martial arts lover's dream, in other words, but in reality it could have been a lot better.

I'm not too worried about plotting and scripting in fight films - after all, WARRIOR KING is an all-time favourite and that has virtually no story - but they're particularly bad here. Scenes drag when there's no action, and one character goes undercover seemingly just to extend the running time a bit further. The good news is that when the action hits it really hits, and the choreography makes for a lot of fun. There's no skimping on the violence, either. Each featured star gets to do his thing in a series of staged, brutal bouts and most of them are effective enough.

Cast-wise, this is spearheaded by a funny and athletic Tony Jaa, finally getting to show some of his power moves that have been missing since WARRIOR KING. He's supported by Tiger Chen, better than he was in MAN OF TAI CHI, and Iko Uwais, who is underutilised and seems to keep losing his bouts. Scott Adkins makes for a splendidly volatile bad guy, ably supported by the hulking Michael Jai White, and CHOCOLATE fans will be delighted by Jeeja Yanin's small role. TRIPLE THREAT's not a great film, but if you're a fan of the stars you'll like it well enough as an undemanding slice of spectacle.

This is a Chinese film so the Westerners are the bad guys. The film takes place in Maha Jaya as a Chinese real estate tycoon vows to use their wealth to wipe out organized crime. They fight back. In this film everyone looks like a good guy avenging the death of someone, thinking they are Jackie Chan and throwing down their weapons to fight hand to foot. The plot was a bust. Fighting was constant. Stereotypical hidden pegboard with a variety of weapons.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Blood and bodies were blown in half.

I totally get people who are dissapointed in this. If you take the talent at hand, you'd imagine something more spectacular overall. And it's not just the very predictable story, I was expecting that. But cliches get boring fast and the fight scenes are good, but that is not enough to elevate it to a level that would make this a classic, which the cast would be deserving of.

Dialog is kind of wooden most of the time too (though there are some noteable and great exceptions, some may go over your head, since it is only 50 % in english, did not do a count, so that is estimate of course),so beware of that too. If you are just here for the action you will be mostly satisfied though, so I guess primary objective achieved