Before we got Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in "Rush Hour," we got Mark Dacascos and Kadeem Hardison in "Drive." The similarities between them were more than the differences.
"Drive" was good but it was no "Rush Hour." It lacked the budget, the script, and most of all, it lacked Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
"Drive" starts off on a dock in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your immediate thoughts will be, "What is going on?" There's a man trying to evade these armed Chinese gangsters who are shooting at his feet! Why in the world would they be shooting at his feet with automatic weapons instead of just shooting him?
Not too much later, after we learn that this man is Toby Wong (Dacascos), we learn that he has a bio engine implanted in his body. It is a biological energy module which a Chinese firm developed and they want it back. This bio engine gives Toby super strength and speed. A corporation in L.A. wants to buy the implant for $5M and China wants to stop it. Malik Brody (Hardison) is trying to help Toby get to L.A.
The movie got better as it went along. I didn't know what to make of it at first hence my apprehensiveness in taking a liking to it. But like Tucker (just not as good), Hardison was funny and like Chan, Dacascos was athletic and skilled in kung-fu. I think had I seen this in 1997 before seeing "Rush Hour" I would've had a greater appreciation for it.
"Drive" was good but it was no "Rush Hour." It lacked the budget, the script, and most of all, it lacked Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
"Drive" starts off on a dock in the San Francisco Bay Area. Your immediate thoughts will be, "What is going on?" There's a man trying to evade these armed Chinese gangsters who are shooting at his feet! Why in the world would they be shooting at his feet with automatic weapons instead of just shooting him?
Not too much later, after we learn that this man is Toby Wong (Dacascos), we learn that he has a bio engine implanted in his body. It is a biological energy module which a Chinese firm developed and they want it back. This bio engine gives Toby super strength and speed. A corporation in L.A. wants to buy the implant for $5M and China wants to stop it. Malik Brody (Hardison) is trying to help Toby get to L.A.
The movie got better as it went along. I didn't know what to make of it at first hence my apprehensiveness in taking a liking to it. But like Tucker (just not as good), Hardison was funny and like Chan, Dacascos was athletic and skilled in kung-fu. I think had I seen this in 1997 before seeing "Rush Hour" I would've had a greater appreciation for it.