Triple Threat

[Drunk Monk]

This was way overhyped. Jaa. Uwais. Chen. Adkins. Yanin. Jai White. Bisping. Some big names in fight choreo.  But in the end, it's a typical fight flick with a weak storyline and poorly developed characters like a throwback to a Golan Globus flick in the 80s.  Tony and Iko are interesting.  Tiger isn't up to par.  Adkins is funny as the leader of the evil gwailo (followed by the two Michaels). Jeeja has one good scene but it's too short. The fights are good but too far in between. It's the fights between the leads tho - the fights against the henchmen are very unimpressive. Lots of full auto gun play but not very well choreographed, just shooting and splattering.  My guess is that between the Mandarin, Thai, English & Indonesian, no one could really understand each other.  Kind of a fail.  Kind of a fast-forward-to-the-fight-scenes flick.  Not particularly DOOM worthy.

Strangely, I thought cf reviewed this here already. I knew he saw it but I don't know how I knew. cf - did you review it here and then delete that review?  DOOM is my notes so when you mess with them, it's like lobotomizing my memory.

[cranefly]

Yeah, I deleted my review.  Now I'm trying to delete yours.  Greg, could you give me permissions to do that?

Okay, no, I never posted a review.  I kept meaning to, but never did.  I got access to Triple Threat through Hoopla via the library.  (It's still a mystery to me how it became available there almost immediately.)  I mentioned it to you at the tournament, I think, and again when I handed off my photos/clips over lunch.

Adkins wasn't given much to do other than climb out of cars, jeeps, trucks, subway cars, whatever, ever in pursuit of the good guys.  Oh, and then fight whoever presented themselves.

Tony and Iko surprised me in that Tony always won in their melees, and also Iko got a beat-down or two from a villain.  I would expect Iko to be the bigger star, with Tony still paying for his bad boy days, but this movie seemed to present Tony as notably better than  Iko.

[Drunk Monk]

I remember talking to you about it at TCEC but I already knew you had seen it.  Maybe you posted in on that other forum - the one about amputee space suit porn?  Oh wait, I'm not a member of that.  Nope.  No idea how I knew.

I thought Adkins had some funny lines.  I can't remember what they were now.  

Tony got higher billing than Iko and he precedes him, but I feel Iko is on the verge of breaking out.  He's got both Stuber & Wu Assassins queued up for this year.  Tony's 'Hollywood' ventures were xXx & F&F, both of which he was outshined by the rest of the cast.  Iko was totally missing in Force Awakens, but he stole the show for Mile 22.  And I remain unimpressed by Tiger. He's not really done anything stand out. His wire work in this seemed almost caricature of mediocre PRC wire work.  But I agree, this film favored Tony more than it should have.  Iko's character was more interesting, which isn't saying that much as all the roles were one dimensional.  I would've been fine with that if there were more fight scenes and better ones at that.  These fights, while good, were uninspired - nothing that original really.

[cranefly]

It's possible I inadvertently mentioned seeing Triple Threat in a copyediting email.

Yeah, I don't have a good feel for the ongoing exposure of Iko and Tony.  I haven't seen any of the F&F films, or Mile 22.

[Greg]

This arrived while I await for Knives Out. About twenty minutes in, I fell asleep. To be fair, this was this middle of the day.

I'm not engaged enough to go back.

[Drunk Monk]

I'm not engaged enough to go back.

fair. the sets are lackluster.