Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very disappointed :(

I really don't get the hype.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Showdown in Little Tokyo is Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee's best action film classic! I am written this review In Memorie of my all time favorite actor Brandon Lee who is no longer with us anymore. Brandon died of a gunshot wound on March 31, 1993 at the filming studio in Wilmington, North Carolina, at the age of 28, after an accidental shooting on set of The Crow. R.I.P. Brandon Lee (1965 - 1993) one of the best martial arts and actors in Hollywood, this actor get's my respect! You will be missed! I love you! I really miss Brandon Lee, I really wish he would make more movies, he was tragically killed in accident like was his father Bruce Lee.You are dead!... Hell sucked! We are back! Like is said in my earlier review (I Come in Peace aka Dark Angel), Showdown in Little Tokyo is my second favorite film of Dolph Lundgren and it is also my second favorite film of Brandon Lee, his first one will always be Rapid Fire (1992) they where both films I grew up watching it when I was a child. Showdown in Little Tokyo is a classic film, it is only one hour and nineteen minutes long, it is a kick ass action and has a lot of fight scenes. However, neither DVD nor Blu-ray disk for this film has been released in my country. I can't get it so I have downloaded from net. Dolph Lundgren did a lot of direct to video action movies that I haven't seen them yet, but I Come in Peace and Showdown in Little Tokyo are his best films he ever worked on them. I love this flick, not that much as I love I Come in Peace but closely.Plot: Detective Chris Kenner was orphaned as a child as his father was in the service and was killed and lived in Japan. Now he is on the trail of ruthless Yakuza leader named Yoshido, who helped establish a small Japanese area in Los Angeles and is now running a drug ring disguised as a brewery. However, Kenner must team up with a Japanese-American detective named Johnny Murata, and he also must protect a witness named Minako who would testify against Yoshido. But what Kenner will soon discover that he will be in a lot more than what he bargained for.Both of the actors did a great job a lot of fighting scenes are in here, lots of explosions and a lot of body counts. Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee literally kick ass! I love this flick. I loved this movie when I first saw it especially when Brandon Lee kicked Sato (Toshishiro Obata) Yakuza's ass while reading him his rights. "You have the right to BE DEAD!" Memorable dialogue for me is when Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's character chops the guys hand off and says, "Now you only have one hand to wipe your ass with." That's a really great line. You have tons of action in here, I Love the beautiful score David Michael Frank in the opening scene. I love the action scene in the opening sequence when Chris Kenner jumps from the roof in the kickboxing ring and he kicks those two kickboxers asses to the ground. A viewer screams $5.000 on a the new guy! and Chris replies "That's a good bet." classic ha ha, Brandon Lee shows a lot of martial arts skills in dance club, he knows how to kick some ass and his martial arts are amazing. It's a damn shame that they don't make em like this anymore. Dolph Lundgren goes in to Yoshida's home and he rescues Minako Okeya (Tia Carrere) for committing suicide, Dolph breaks a door with one hand, he pulls the Yakuza and he breaks his neck, with his bare hands awesome! I also love Brandon Lee's character Johnny Murata. Jake Lo and Johnny Murata are my two favorite characters of Brandon lee. I am giving a 9 out of 10 to this flick, I only have a problem with this film is the sex scene between Dolph and Tia. Some nude pics like Tia is topless, we can see her bops and Angel (Renee Griffin) is topples and again we see her bops after Yoshida cuts her head. I hate this death scene, It really shocks me in a movie. Anyway it is a classic and I love it.Showdown in Little Tokyo is a 1991 American buddy cop-action film directed by Mark L. Lester, and starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee. This was Brandon Lee's first American film role. The film was released in the United States on August 23, 1991.9/10 Grade: A+ Studio: Warner Bros. Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tia Carrere, Toshishiro Obata, Philip Tan, Renee Griffin, Simon Rhee Director: Mark L. Lester Producers: Martin E. Caan, Mark L. Lester Screenplay: Stephen Glantz, Caliope Brattlestreet Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 19 Mins. Budget: $8.000.000 Box Office: $2,275,557

Routine martial arts nonsense stars Dolph Lundgren as Chris Kenner, an American police detective schooled in Eastern culture and mysticism. He's partnered with Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee), as he goes after the vicious Yakuza baddies raising Hell in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. They trade quips and do macho posturing, while Chris gets the hots for Minako Okeya (Tia Carrere), a sultry nightclub singer.I won't deny it, "Showdown in Little Tokyo" is stupid, and pretty badly scripted, with some amusingly dumb lines. Much of the action is not that inspired, to boot. But Lundgren and Lee seem to be having some fun with the bickering / bantering aspect to the screenplay, the pacing is decent (this clocks in at a very brief 79 minutes), and the violence is reasonably effective. Originally, the movie wasn't meant to be so tongue in cheek, but it's a good thing that the filmmakers went in that direction. Otherwise, this might be just plain bad.Lundgren and Lee are a hoot in the leads, no matter if their actual performances aren't all that hot. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is a perfectly serviceable villain; he's just pure sleazy evil, and he snarls quite adequately. The luscious Carrere provides plenty of eye candy, even if she was likely doubled for some shots in that hot tub sequence. Lundgren shows off his physique as well.One rather disturbing sex scene is a highlight, and our villain gets quite the show stopping comeuppance.From the director of "Commando".Five out of 10.

There are spectacular parts to this hopeless piece of film making. Like spectacularly bad delivery of the awful dialogue. Like a plot with no firm parts to hold together the holes. Like characters getting shot "straight through" the lung and just keep fighting on. Like policemen having no regards for police work, the law, civilization. Like characters picking up "samurai swords" from parade actors and use them for a life and dead fight.When I feel like watching terribly bad action movies with crazy plots, and wooden acting leads, constantly looking for an excuse to lose their shirt, I prefer the works of Andy Sidaris where at least the constantly topless leads are female and rather nice looking Playboy models (with less plastic surgery than Dolph Lundgreen)

It's a buddy buddy action movie, one that feels more 80s than 90s, with that it has all the pluses and minuses that comes with such genre staples. Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee pair up to take on The Yakuza, Dolph has a very personal reason for tracking and killing the Yakuza leader. They are an odd pair who must get over their initial differences to complete their mission. Sound familiar? Well it is, because it can be seen in a whole host of other action buddy buddy movies.The acting is sub-standard but the action is well constructed, which at the end of the day is what action fans require for a rollicking good time. Some of the dialogue is too cheese worthy to even pass as acceptable - and this in a genre that often demands it as a requisite, while the overt homoerotic undercurrents are either meant as tongue in cheek? Or an attempt by the makers to make some sort of action movie statement?Is it fun? Absolutely, and that's not just because of the ridiculous trousers Lundgren often wears (seriously, a leather jacket and Oxford bags?), while the colour photography is sparkling (Mark Irwin), but you have to have a taste for corn and cheese to get the most from this host. 5/10