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Excellent but underrated film

Beautiful, moving film.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

My God! I was hoping that this would turn out to be Lundgren's best film - turns out instead that it's his worst I've seen. John Woo makes a television movie and does it very badly. The pacing is non-existent, the movie packed with extraneous characters (like the young girl) and the whole thing feels like it's been patched together from four television episodes. I've never known a Woo film to drag or be incredibly boring until now.Things look promising at the beginning with a house massacre, with Lundgren taking on a whole gang of bad guys in Woo's inimitably violent style. Sadly things descend into silliness when a trampoline comes into play. Then the action is over and done with, until a predictable but fun motorbike fight in the woods halfway through. The baddie turns out to be a single sniper, and the sight of Lundgren chasing a single villain just isn't a lot of fun. Quite boring, in fact.Lundgren is terribly wooden, the supporting cast no better (although that French guy was kind of amusing). Even good old Fred Williamson is wasted in a role where he does little or nothing. The nonsensical plot lurches from one instance to another, only occasionally making sense as it goes along. The villain isn't big or clever, just irritating and whiny. The females look pretty but are pretty vapid. And talk about that anti-climatic ending. Oh yeah, and at the beginning Lundgren gets blinded by a flash grenade and develops a phobia of the colour white. Later on he has to fight in a milk factory. Bet you couldn't see that one coming, could you? A new career low for both Lundgren and Woo, abysmal stuff.

This is definitely not one of John Woo's best movies. This made-for-TV American Canadian co-production was supposed to be a pilot for TV series under the same name with Dolph Lundgren as the star. Since the TV series were never made you can only guess how bad this movie is. It's hard to believe that Woo made this after the great "Face off". I guess Woo wanted to earn few dollars and had some spare time.The script is unoriginal , predictable , full of cliché characters and based on a nonsense that Lundgren is afraid of colour white. It's hardly the most exciting plot device in the world, because it's so stupid. This allows the movie for some laughable moments like a fight in the pool of milk. Other than that the script takes itself very seriously and there's no humor. There is no interesting villain either.The plot is silly and full of holes. The writers weren't even trying . The story is an excuse for action.The acting is lame and there is no chemistry between the characters. Lundgren tries hard , but there are serious moments when he is truly bad.The action feels uninspired. Woo is on autopilot here and If I didn't knew it was his movie , I could swear it was directed by some John Woo wannabe. The motorbike stunts are decent , but that's it. The movie was made by 10 mln of $. Where all this money go ? The whole movie feels made on very small scale.Not one of Woo's or Lundgren's finest moments. I give it 1/10.

How can I describe Blackjack in one sentence? Blackjack is The Bodyguard directed by John Woo. As such it leaves The Bodyguard (and Bodyguard from Beijing) for dead. It is far more than a chick flick, rather it is a movie in which each of the characters are flawed and are struggling with themselves and each other to come to terms with their weaknesses. As in other Woo movies, the characters do not bask in their strengths, but the struggle through their weaknesses, and Jack (Dolph Lundgrun) seems to get more and more of them. At first he develops a phobia to the colour white, and then finds that he has become a father and he must slowly come to terms with this new development.Cinder was a southern waitress but was discovered by a modelling agent who brought her to New York and she is stunning the crowds. The problem is that she is being pursued by an obsessed fan who wants to kill or, or he seems to be an obsessed fan. I will be revealing much of the details of this movie, so if you don't want it to be spoiled, then stop reading now. The details are important to the studies of the main characters because it is their flaws that make them strong.Cinder and Jack are the main characters, everybody else supports them. The little girl is cool, but once again she is only a support. We know that she is intelligent, and also know that she can count cards, but this is not developed in the movie. The girl the a burden that Jack must deal with, and though the girl is burdened with the death of her parents, her development is left behind to focus on the development of Jack and Cinder, the two important characters.Jack has a problem with white, and this is used extensively during the movie. We believe that this problem developed when he was temporarily blinded by a flash grenade (and here the little girl helps him through), but soon we learn that his father used to drive a white Cadillac. His father was a card counter and would work the casinos, and while doing that he would have a code to prepare a quick escape. Unfortunately one day his lighter did not work (he flicked his light twice to tell is son to get the car) and the mob grabbed him and killed him.White is the traditional symbol of goodness and purity, but this causes Jack to constantly turn away. This seems to reflect an aspect of Christianity where the purity of God forces us, sinners, to turn away. Jack cannot get over the white himself, yet the movie falls down here as he struggles to overcome it, and when he does he is able to save the girl. Yet we are never actually told that he has overcome it, rather he struggles through his weakness so that Cinder might survive.Cinder is an even more interesting character because more and more is revealed about her. At first we know of her as a model, but soon we learn that she is a drug addict and it is because of pain that was inflicted upon her by a car accident earlier in her life. She has a great pain, but tries to cover it up with drugs. This does not work for not only does it keep coming back, but she hallucinates and at one stage tries to throw herself off of a balcony. By looking at her character we realise that she has a lot of problems and as such needs somebody to help her through.This is where the obsessed fan comes in. At first with think it is a fan, but when we hear his voice, something clicks. He has a southern accent and she, we know, is from the south. As such we start to think that he is more than just a fan but has a stronger relationship with her. Sure enough, we learn that he was at one stage her husband, and he is obsessed not with a model but with a wife that he lost and wants back. He claims that she needs him, but this desire to protect her is mixed with an anger and a desire to see her dead.Blackjack is not one of Woo's best movies, but it still has a lot of his style. In my opinion his movies have become much worse since he moved to the United States, but this is a man who moved to the US because in Hollywood he could spend more time with his family. His movies are still a higher quality than most, but generally are less outstanding that his Hong Kong efforts.

Dolph Lundgren plays Jack Devlin a mercenary suffering from the fear of the color white, who must protect a supermodel (Kam Heskin) from a skilled assassin who is her ex-husband (Phillip Mackenzie) John Woo certainly knows how to do pile on some excellent actionscenes, however the story is far too slow and ridiculous to be taken seriously. Not a bad effort (especially considering it's a TV movie) but John Woo can do better, although surprisingly hasn't lately with suckfests as Windtalkers and M.I.2.