death machine take a fairly decent premise for an action movie ( unstoppable martial art kill machine send out to eliminate a crime bos opponent ) and turn it into an unwatchable mess . i have rarely see such a breath take combination of tiny budget and bad acting and incoherent script release a a so called movie . it easily the bad martial art or action orient movie i have see in year and eclipse even ninja holocaust ( which at least have some good energetic fight scene ) . the actual star of the movie be the white death machine and ( it basically his vehicle ) so he be feature prominently in many more scene than his two cohort . he in good shape and and he not bad look and but a an actor he barely there think chuck norris in the octagon and only without any energy or emotion . this be obviously a deliberate choice on the part of the actor and director . but you have to be arnold to pull this kind of thing off and and this guy be no arnold . the movie ( and the director ) can not seem to find the time ( or the budget ) to film the scene that would have answer the basic question that it originally pose and like represent who be the shadowy figure give the marble mouthed asian lady her order . how do the gang war end . why do the mush mouth asian lady decide to have her zombie assassins kill . and what the heck happen that leave her assistant dead and her wield a katana like a broom stick . it do and however and find the time to film a completely extraneous bar fight in which a sailor ( well and he look like popeye ) destroy a bar because the juke box do not work . it only relate to the rest of the film because in the process he also k. o. the movie hero and a bartender or karate student who be a victim of the death machine first major assignment ( he get his hand chop off while they be kill his teacher ) . it follow this up with one of the most un call for love scene between the hero and his girlfriend i have ever watch . the segue make no sense at the end of the bar fight and she grimace over his splayed limp body and and the next thing they be in a tasteful shadow montage of sex and love that look like it come from a hallmark card . btw and we never see the sailor again . and wait until you see the showdown between the homicide detective and his captain it play a if the director and screenwriter never actually saw a movie scene place inside a police station and but have hear of them second hand and decide to include some without really know how they work . the movie be a textbook case of poor casting and community theater level actor flounder without decent direction . the three death machine come across a clod while the hero know his line but can not carry the movie and give that his character be an ineffective wimp while his girlfriend be a charisma vacuum while and all the other minor part be barely watchable . all this make for a fairly poor movie but the dragon lady do more to drag the movie into subterranean stinker territory than anyone or anything else . she look ridiculous while her tiny and inexpressive face be overpower by her ton o hair skyscraper wig and she wear her red silk dress like a bathrobe and and she talk with a terrible mush mouth delivery that scream needed time with a dialog coach . poor lady she be obviously way out of her element and and as far a i know and never appear in a film again . add to this a low budget one synthesizer soundtrack that never shut up and never play anything appropriate or interesting while crappy film stock and light while fight choreography that be strictly from hunger while and a general all around dreariness and lack of energy in the blocking and the stage business . and you have one lame movie . i get this a part of a 50 movie dvd compilation and so it probably cost me about 50 cent to watch it . it wasn not worth it . feh .