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Buy This Item Blackjack by Walt Disney Video  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 9-21-2008     The director and action-magician John Woo (<I>Face Off</I>) can always be counted on to create spectacular violent set pieces, with bodies and broken glass gracefully airborne in slow motion. But everything else in this feature-length TV pilot is grindingly conventional. Woo managed to rise above Jean-Claude Van Damme in <I>Hard Target</I>, but there's not much he can do with Dolph Lundgren's Jack Devlin, a kick-boxing former U.S. Marshall turned bodyguard, assigned to guard the body of a drug-addicted supermodel (Kam Heskin, from TV's <I>Sunset Beach</I>). Between shootouts, the elements of the future series are wheeled creakingly into place: a spacious Ikea deluxe apartment with a built-in armory, a caustic eye-patched sidekick (Saul Rubinek), and even a precocious freckle-faced girl (Padraigin Murphy) who becomes Devlin's stepdaughter, when his best buddy is rubbed out. The gorgeous showdown scene between Devlin and the psycho-stalker bad guy (Phillip MacKenzie) takes place in a milk-bottling plant, with the white stuff splashing all over---but this is TV fare, so there's no red stuff mixed in. Action addicts are advised to stick with the world-class gunplay films of Woo's Hong Kong period, <I>A Better Tomorrow</I>, <I>The Killer</I>, and <I>Hard Boiled</I>. <I>--David Chute</I> Reader Reviews John Woo delivers an exciting action movie starring Dolph Lungren and Kate Vernon. Lungren's character has a fear of the color white. An obssessed fan of a supermodel tries to use Lungren's color phobia to kill him! This movie has subplots within plots. It also contains explosions, car and motorcycle chases. Of course, it has some martial arts action as well. I rate Blackjack a 5 star movie. Don't miss it!

Blackjack Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 9-21-2008.

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