SnoopyStyle Anthony Fait (DMX) is stealing diamonds with his crew Tommy (Anthony Anderson), Daria (Gabrielle Union) and Miles (Drag-On). Taiwan secret agent Su (Jet Li) is on their trail. The crew finds a bag of black diamonds along with other jewels. Su catches Miles looking for the black diamonds but he only has the normal diamonds. It leaves the crew with only the black diamonds. Ling (Mark Dacascos) and his assistant Sona (Kelly Hu) want the return of their black diamonds. Fait asks Archie (Tom Arnold) to fence the unusual loot and then he gets robbed.The is an action B-movie. DMX is not up to being a big screen leading man but he does have the attitude. Jet Li is stiff but that's OK for the role. There is plenty of action. The plot is nothing compelling. There're a couple of good actors in secondary roles. It's a recipe for a nothing special B-movie without any originality.

FlashCallahan When his daughter is kidnapped and held in exchange for priceless black diamonds, the leader of a crew of highly skilled thieves forges an unlikely alliance with a Taiwanese Intelligence officer to rescue her. Their race against the clock to find the precious stones ultimately unravels a plot to distribute a deadly new weapon of war.....In the early 2000's, Joel Silver had a spate of producing martial arts movies with an urban edge, well his idea of urban edge was casting an R&B/Hip Hop star, and have Anthony Anderson shout very loud throughout the film.Exit Wounds was great, Romeo Must Die was not, and this lies somewhere in the middle.Again, the martial arts isn't the best in the world, and Li is given just more and more wire work to get through, and for some reason, it's pretty blooming racist in some scenes.DMX does the same role he did in Exit Wounds, namely play a pseudo criminal with a heart of gold, and always having wire work at hand so he can literally run up a wall to get away from a dog.But all in all it was made so Li could have a fight with Dacascos at the end, it even went to a public vote in Li's website.The stunt at the beginning is brilliant and there is a good quad bike chase, but other than that, its forgettable stuff.

Spikeopath I guess when push comes to shove it's an action film that delivers the requisite supply of biff, bam and kerpow action sequences. Yet even allowing for the old "leave the brain at the door" requirement for such action comic malarkey, the script is too poor, the acting equally so, while the choreography is weak. The latter of which a big misstep when you have Jet Li and Mark Dacascos fronting the good guy/bad guy axis of the story.Plot pitches Li's ass kicking detective with DMX's urban thief together as an unlikely buddy buddy combo trailing missing diamonds and DMX's kidnapped daughter, and that's pretty much it. There's no attempts to expand the characters or add some emotional depth to what is meant to be a pretty critical situation.It often feels tired, like a recycling of so many other film's of similar ilk, originality is out the window here, hell they even get Tom Arnold in to reprise a watered down version of his character from True Lies. Gabrielle Union and Kelly Hu are on hand to add the sexy sizzle in thankless roles, while Dacascos barely registers as an uber villain.Lazy and redundant, all told, a waste of time for cast and viewers alike. 4/10

varghesejunior This is an interesting short thrilling film of Jet li.Story is about a Taiwan cop and a small time thief who join hands to find extraordinary gems after which many people are, including an international criminal, who has taken the thief's daughter as hostage.The story line is fast paced, action scenes are good, Jet li's karate work is awesome, many of the stunts are well taken. Jet li and DMX are the best actors.But some of the stuff is highly exaggerated, like a helicopter bursting mid air, and a man emerging from that unscathed. also the film has few explicit scenes.Jet li fans will like it.