Mike Corbeil I won't get into details and will just say that it's a worthwhile martial arts film; plenty of strong fighting that only people in truly top fitness, plus skill training, should ever consider being involved in or with. And, there's the warm family touch. Johnny is quite a young lad in this film, his fighting and courage choreography being I guess top-notch. I don't know filmmaking from experience, so based on this, I think this youth is amazing. At one point, he's attacked by bully kids at his school and he pins the main bully to a wall, with his leg nicely lifted up so that his foot is pressing against the bottom of the chin of the main bully. I don't have such flexibility. If I tried anything of the like, then I'd surely be leaning the back backwards a lot more than Johnny did, for he was almost perfectly upright, except for the leg used to pin the main bully against the wall. I don't have that kind of flexibility and imagine that this Johnny lad does; choreographed, or not.With that said, I think that anyone who likes martial arts films that have good morals against criminal ones, plus a touch of love, well, it's a worthwhile film.It's interesting, is thriller for sure, well choreographed, and action, plus the touch of love.Why this film has only 6.6/10 for average IMDb user rating is a little "beyond me". I'll give it 8/10 and am not sure that it shouldn't be more but 8/10 seems at least reasonable for a start, given that I'm not a film expert. One thing for sure is that I'd recommend this film to anyone I know to like martial arts with moral values and "a touch of love" or, if you prefer, romance.As I said at the start, I won't get into details, meaning technical kind. This review is just a general kind or a "rough" overview, say. Were any mistakes made in any parts of the film? I don't know and also don't care about it, for this is just entertainment, or as is said in French, "divertissement".

david-sarkies This movie is a little slow in parts but the fight scenes make it one of the most extraordinary movies that I have seen. This is one of the reasons that I generally like Hong Kong movies - not only do they have great fight scenes, but they also like to delve into human struggles, which is what American movies rarely do (at least on more than a superficial level).The focus of this movie is a deep undercover cop in China. He has a family and he tries to be a good father, but his work forces him to be very secretive. At first we think that he is a criminal, but the back cover of the video tells us that he is not. We soon learn that he is a Chinese cop, but nobody else really knows that.The problem arises when his wife dies of some disease and his son must go to Hong Kong with a Hong Kong police officer to try and find him. As such his son, who happens to be a martial arts expert, must brave the underlife of Hong Kong, and the police, to find his father. Not only that, but back at home he has to handle to taunts of his peers who all believe his father to be a criminal.The child is the real star of this movie as it focuses on his struggles in not only finding out the truth about his father, but also trying to find him. He is lost in a world were strangers claim to be relatives and where his father at times must deny him to protect himself. Yet deep down the child knows that his father loves him, and the struggle to show his love to his child is one of the most tortuous parts of this movie.There are two great fight scenes in this movie. The first is the shootup in the restaurant. I will not go into deep detail, without saying that it is phenomenal, and is what one should expect from the action capital of the world. If there is one thing the Chinese know how to do, that is to make a really good action movie that leaves its Hollywood counterparts for dead.The second cool action sequence is the end sequence where the father uses his kid as a weapon against the bad guys. We have seen previously how this kid is a really good martial artist, but we also know that together both of them make an almost unbeatable team. In fact, not only is the kid good at martial arts, be is also very cunning.I guess the title tells us everything - the kid learns that his father is a hero. This is not clear at the beginning, and everything seems to tell us that his father is a crook. The truth is that he is not. His father is out there to destroy the power of the cartels and he is willing to put himself into danger to stop the criminals.It is surprising that so much comes out of this movie, where as a typical Jackie Chan movie is generally quite shallow. But then we really don't watch a Jackie Chan movie for in-depth character development - we watch them to see Jackie Chan do absolutely stupid stunts so that he can maintain his fan base. Hey, he enjoys it so who am I to critise him.

sarastro7 (Sorry, a few spoilers here!)The Enforcer is a surprisingly great movie, esp. by Hong Kong standards. It deals with Jet Li being a deep undercover police-man from Beijing, who despite a sick wife and a son that needs him keeps being sent on long undercover missions. Here, he's sent to Hong Kong to infiltrate a crime syndicate. While helping them, he is caught on a photo by the Hong Kong police who doesn't know him, and Anita Mui, a highly placed Hong Kong police lieutenant, goes to Beijing to find out who he is. She finds his wife and son, and realizes that the crook she came to find may not in fact be a crook. Soon, the wife gets sicker, and eventually dies. The lieutenant then takes care of the son, and they go to Hong Kong to find the undercover cop. That's just half the movie. The other half involves the kid being in danger and even being beaten by his dad because the father has to act coldblooded in front of the mafia guys. Then there's some very good chemistry between Jet Li and Anita Mui's characters, and the final battle with the bad guys is good and rewarding.All in all, this movie is told incredibly well, and everything in it rings true and is very, very moving. Great story, very good acting, lots of cool kung fu (also from surprisingly supple Anita Mui!), *and* lots of great action scenes in general. Never a dull moment.The only thing wrong with the movie is that we're never really told who Jet Li's character really is. We know he's a good guy, and that he works for a police chief, but this chief denies knowing him as anything other than a crook, even when the Hong Kong police lieutenant shows up to inquire about him. But this is a minor thing that I am more than willing to ignore. This is a very satisfying movie in all ways.9 out of 10.

maitreg This is a very odd story and is hard to follow. Jet Li plays an undercover agent (police of some kind) who is assigned to infiltrate an organized crime gang headed by a ruthless martial arts master who is played by one of the worst actors I've ever seen. He is excellent in the fight scenes though and quite often surpasses Jet Li's skill.Jet Li's young son is also a junior kung fu master and longs for his father's return home from frequent trips. His mother has become very sick recently though, and this only makes it worse.This movie is worth seeing for the fantastic fight scenes, but the plot is too odd to even consider.