Chow Yun-Fat's debut movie in America is an action-fuelled violent affair.

For those who don't recognise the director, Antoine Fuqua is responsible for the 90's music video of Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio, and his first effort at directing an American movie is reassuringly solid, polished, and shows great promise.

Yun-Fat is John Lee, a contract killer hired to take out a cop who wasted his employer's son. But when Lee sees the cop has a young son, he can't carry out his job. Now, his former employer calls for replacements to finish Lee off, and hunt down his family back in China. Lee calls on the aid of sexy passport forger Meg Coburn (Sorvino) to help him get back to China to protect his family. Lees replacements are hot on his heels though, and fight him every step of the way - which is basically the bread and butter of the movie.

The plot stretches the imagination in places, such as the swift change of allegiances displayed by Coburn. Sorvino gives a strong performance and a gritty edge to her character, and Yun-Fat does well to convey the steely emotions of an assassin.

The fight scenes are mostly gun-orientated, but are very well paced and smoothly done, and the DVD picture quality shows this off to good effect.

The featurette, whilst short, has some snippets of interviews with the cast, and it's a good watch.

See also: Chow Yun-Fat; Antoine Faqua

Slightly superficial, but well presented and with some slick action scenes, this is grossly underrated by many.