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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 8

  Starring: The Bold, Bald, Gruff Action Man Jason Statham

  Statham and Li reteam for another film, this time with Li playing an undercover vigilante out to exact revenge on the Yakuza for the murder of his family.

  For a while now, ever since I saw the promos at the theater, I've been curious about this film, but I didn't get around to watching it until today. And, as a mindless action film from its time, it works and entertains. When compared to The One, the action sequences in this film are more competently executed and choreographed. Both the plot and the acting are fairly solid. For me, the film's biggest flaw was its unconvincing revelation and the fact that Statham's…

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  Review by King #adoptdontshop ★★½

  Jet Li and Jason Statham were never known for their acting chops or for starring in Oscar nominated films. The movies they make are for viewers who thirst for balls-to-the-walls hard hitting action.

  In War, Li and Statham work on opposing sides as law enforcer and mercenary involved in a complicated plot of blindsides and comeuppance between the Yakuza and the Triad. Now, this sounds majestic and appealing on paper but War's execution is topsy turvy, the camera work lacks sharpness, and the first act is boring and dry. Granted, the action scenes are aplenty and well choreographed while the twists are gasp-worthy (well, not predictable) but War still lacks an overall cohesion.

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  Review by Old Man Angelo ★

  Making a B movie Heat knock off with two action movie legends was always a genius idea. Hiring the bozos who made this movie to make that was a terrible idea. This is the action movie equivalent to Booker T vs HHH at Wrestlemania 19 in terms of idiotic bad endings.

  This is a 100 minute long avid fart of insufferable MTV editing, but still does a reasonably ok job of setting up wanting to give us a showdown between Statham and Li. It sets up Li as an indestructible assassin, and establishes Statham as in over his head then, it gets to the ending and they finally fight, only to cop us out with one of the shittiest attempts…

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  Review by shookone ★½ 1

  Statham vs. Li from the action shelf - at least more lucid than brother in crime Hitman

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  Review by wersku ★★

  My god, sorry to say this but how annoyingly edited this movie was, it was close to making you want to throw up and dizziness was present in some action scenes. Now as a action movie entertainer, it is good because, movie knows what it wants to show. Brainless fun.

  The plot for everyone's surprise lacks depth. but I usually don't care that much about the story of movies like this, but it would always be nice if you could also enjoy the story..

  Now think about it, we have Jason madman and Jet MF Li in our cast and I think the movie didn't use either of them enough and fails to create something more for them. Statham is…

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  Review by Eddie Dwyer ★★★★

  Jet li vs Jason Statham this was a good movie with a twist and turn great action thriller

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  Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★

  Lionsgate. NETFLIX 
  2.35:1
  Color 
  35mm
  18

  A horrid film in every single department, from the editing to the performances of Statham and Li. It's B-movie with added flair that makes it extremely outdated and laughable. It's action maybe it's the highlight, but it's just ridiculous and over the top. The twist could've been made into something special but it's blown with a lacklustre plot. If it had more of an R-Rated approach and better filmed, it may have just hinged on the cult market but unfortunately, it will be forgotten in time.

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  Review by Justin Decloux ★½

  A film heroically dedicated to not delivering any of the goods. It thinks it's THE FRENCH CONNECTION meets YOJIMBO, but it's just a boring over an edited piece of poop that doesn't deliver a martial arts scene until well into its hour-long running time. Kane Kosugi fights Jet Li for less than 15 seconds. Hollywood had no idea what to do with Jeti Li.

  I laughed at its plastic surgery twist, but who cares?

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  Review by Daniel Shillito ★½ 3

  Never thought I'd see the day when Jason Statham aggressively speaks Japanese to a man while he's finger deep in their shoulder... I feel like I have to compare War with Li and Statham's other collaboration, The One because where that succeeded, War fails. It's full of clichés and short on action, not big or dumb enough to be glorious instead it's just immensely boring with a horrifically executed twist that just sours the whole miserable experience. Granted, there are a couple of things I do like, mainly the performances from Li and Statham, Corey Yuen's choreography and stunt work are also pretty decent but Philip G. Atwell's direction is nauseating with editing akin to that of an MTV music video. Coupled with a plot that made me audibly sigh multiple times, War ultimately feels like one big missed opportunity with an insultingly stupid ending to boot, if you loved The One, give this a big fat miss.

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  Review by nick atkinson ★★

  War is unable to decide whether Statham or Jet Li should be the main character. The third act twist would be quite entertaining except for the fact that it’s weighed down by the rest of this bland film.

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  Review by Mads Ej ★★★½

  I watched this a couple of years ago and I remember it being pretty great. I only found it pretty good this time, but that is still much better than what most people seem to rate it. 
  I have always known the movie as “Rogue Assassin” but it is apparently called “War” most places.
  The movie has an interesting story, that follows both the FBI and the Yakuza as they all try to deal with the mysterious killer Rogue, who has returned and he seems to play both sides as he kills people from the Yakuza families. 
  The movie stars Jason Statham and Jet Li, who both are cool actions stars, so having them both in the same movie was…

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  Review by AndrewC ★★

  You'd think that a martial arts action thriller promising a showdown between Jet Li and Jason Statham would be too good even for mid-2000s Hollywood to mess up, but War unfortunately does just that since it's a very middling mess of a film. Now, Li and Statham are certainly not the problems with the film but they're unfortunately saddled with a trainwreck of a story that is both very clichéd and quite boring, relying on a serious of ludicrous twists and a puzzling ending to compensate for its lack of quality or invention. This would be mostly forgiveable if the action were any good but this too is average at best. The fight scenes are all edited to death and…