Review – Black Mask

The budgets are getting bigger and the effects, editing and choreography more sophisticated, but otherwise this Jet Li vehicle is still the same old martial arts soup Bruce Lee used to serve up. In fact, the Black Mask costume donned by Li is more than a little reminiscent of Lee’s character in the old Green Hornet series. The Universal Soldier-esque plot – little more than a cheap excuse to bridge the fight sequences together – involves a former member of an elite squad of super soldiers doing battle with former-comrades-turned-drug-gang-assassins. Hit the fast-forward button every time someone starts talking, press play again when they start hitting and shooting each other, and you should get the most out of this movie without enduring the bad dubbing and mediocre, rap-heavy soundtrack. Mildly amusing