You won't be raging, just looking at your phone, as you wait for Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse to slug it out in the generic Raging Fire. JacobOller's review:
Donnie Yen can defy gravity, can make us delight in his near-60-year-old body performing incredible leaps and kicks, can sell copious amounts of cheese with a silly grin or a hard stare. But he’s not a miracle worker. When he’s given material like, a run-of-the-mill cop-and-robber action/drama that’s as generic as its title, he’s just as susceptible to disappearing beneath mediocrity as any other performer.
The two archetypes—Tse’s villain unable to cut loose even with dual butterfly knives; Yen’s hero so thin as to almost disappear behind his extendable baton—clash in a few different setpieces as the film slowly rolls out its backstory through long flashbacks. Neither present nor past provide much drama for the cast to dig into, but the film still has a few inspired moments of action that incorporate over-the-top acts of physical prowess into otherwise standard car chases or fistfights.
The rest is a slog of repetitive and trope-ridden scenes in courtrooms and police stations , where actors sit around and talk about facile ideas everyone in the world should be tired of.is less interested in moral shades of grey than it is in pretending that the omnipresent black—Should cops beat the hell out of people to get answers? Is it bad for the police to be paid off?—is even close to the white.
A stormed mall, invaded drug lair and bomb-threat stand-off all fail to resonate with the power of their action-packed implications just as the two groups—of ex-cop gangsters and current cops—fail to be much more than ancillary entourages of warm bodies for the film’s figureheads. The action is shot with just enough realism to read as familiar but not gritty, while the most boring elements of the plot dance around with unnecessary flair.
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