GREAT MARTIAL ARTS AND ACTION ALL THE WAY
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One of van damme's early films 1988, not his best performance, w...orth getting if your making a van damme collection, you will only watch it once or twice, its an average martial arts film for its time. The film takes place with the summoning of a Japanese martial artist Ken Tami (Sho Kosugi) (code name the BLACK EAGLE), assigned on a US Governmental mission to retrieve a top secret laser tracking device that was on board a shot down F-11 Tiger jet. Ken Tami along with the assistance of his brave two young sons and his female CIA aide Patricia Parker (Doran Clark) must track down the tracking device before all ends, as Ken inevitably comes face to face with an unknown skilled enemy in the form of a KGB team leader named Andrei (Jean-Claude Van Damme).
Codename Black Eagle (Kosugi) is summoned to Malta to... thwart KGB plans to steal a sunken laser device. And, barring sundry explosions, killings, a subplot in which his two children are kidnapped, and a car chase (visibly at 33 mph) through the streets of Malta, that's about it. Directed without flair, this is a movie that defies easy classification: it's either a spy thriller without glamour, gadgets, or twists, or a martial arts movie with only two real fights; and if the script ever had a good line, it's fumbled somewhere between the Russian and Japanese accents. The only difference between this and countless other low-budget action movies is that the hero is not macho: he's thin, doesn't screw around, and even fails to defeat the KGB's balletic kung-fu king (Van Damme). In fact, he does nothing of any interest at all: refile under codename Black Turkey.
i like black eagle because i am buildin a van damm coll and did... not have that one. no dislikes about it.
Very good
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