Cradle 2 the Grave

Pros: some nice action scenes, Jet Li's choreography, a few funny scenes
Cons: the acting, the realism of the plot, the end sequences

If you are a fan of action movies, and happened to catch the Steven Seagal vehicle Exit Wounds, you may feel I am reviewing it, as I talk about Cradle 2 The Grave. The reason for that being, that nearly ever actor in this film was also in ...

Pros: Gabrielle Union's striptease.
Cons: I bet this film's makers couldn't tell you what this is all about.

There are two ways you can clash Chinese and Afro-American culture in cinema: The entertaining way and the stupid way. While Brett Ratner, director of Rush Hour, chose the entertaining way, Andrzej Bartkowiak, director of newly released Cradle...

Pros: the few Jet Li fighting scenes
Cons: the plot, everything else

Su (Jet Li) is a Taiwanese special agent. Fait (DMX) is a jewel thief. Tommy (Anthony Anderson) is Fait's accomplice, and so is Daria (Gabrielle Union). Su and Fait don't like each other whenever they bump heads, but their common enemy will bring them...

Pros: decent action flick
Cons: not too original, illogical shifts in plot

I'm developing a real knack at setting expectations for Hollywood action flicks like Andrzej Bartkowiak's latest: the stupidly titled Cradle 2 The Grave. When it comes to movies like this, you can expect a predictable plot coupled with inane...

Pros: a dumb, delirious nearly-overarching Woo-like numbness.
Cons: DMX not in touch with inner or outer dumbness of the whole shbang.

Where "Tears of the Sun," the latest Bruce Willis war offering huffed and hemmed and strained to wring handkerchiefs full of oh-the-inhumanity-of-violence, tried to pack as many visual and war-storytelling influences it possibly could into every single...

Pros: The comic relief was quite funny, and the fight scenes showed inventive promise.
Cons: Very predicatable and full of tired ideas, quite over-the-top at times.

CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE is a Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, rated R for violence, language an ...

Pros: Umm...I'm thinking, I'm thinking...
Cons: No plot, chopped up action, bad comedy

I didn't go into this preview with many expectations. I'd seen the commercial a couple of times and it looked like it had some nice action, but I had no idea what the plot was about. It looks like the writers were about in the same situation.
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Pros: Exciting action, carchases, some good jokes...
Cons: unoriginal, the ending fight scene has been done before.

You know what you get; that´s what I could simply say about ´Cradle 2 the grave´. The third film from Polish director Andrzej Bartkowiak. The man has prooved himself to be one of today´s best action directors. This film follows up his earlier work ´Romeo ...

Pros: Jet Li, DMX.
Cons: Action scenes are well-done, but the movie needed 1-2 more.

"Cradle 2 The Grave" is simply what it is. It's a ridiculous martial arts/action movie. It has no ...

Pros: Non stop action for martial arts fans.
Cons: A touch more story wouldn't hurt.

With the passing of Bruce Lee so long ago, martial arts fans have been begging for a replacement. Ma ...

Pros: Jet Li and Tom Arnold
Cons: story, acting, and well, pretty much everyone

Summary: (Think 'Rush Hour' but not funny.) Tony Fait (DMX) is some sort of thief for hire. He is hired to steal what appear to be black diamonds but turn out to be a synthetic uranium replacement that can be turned into a really big bomb. Su (Jet ...

Pros: Fight scenes worth the admission.
Cons: Con men with a conscience?

As a martial artist, this movie is one of the kinds that make you want to get back to the dojo (or dojang, for the TKD people out there). The action is great, which serves to counteract the storyline's rather weak premise. But let's face it, we...

Pros: The action and the stunts
Cons: The acting on the part of most of the actors, including Jet Li and DMX

The Plot: The DMX Character Tony Fait is hired to pull off a high tech robbery of a Diamond Exchange to steal what appears to be some rare black diamonds, but which turns out to be something more(If you want to know what they really are go see the...

Pros: The Pros of this movie was the catchy beginning and humorous characters.
Cons: The major con of was the difficulty in following the plot.

The beginning of this movie started out with slight sex appeal and what looked like to be a fairly interesting movie. Things became slightly confusing after the heist and the several oriental fighting men. Their was definitely some catchy humor...

Pros: Something like action
Cons: Something of a joke

I am primarily glad I went to the preview, paying nothing. It was sad none of my friends came, but after the fact, wish I was one of them.

While the storyline had value, how it was interpreted into a movie lacked vision, cohesion and purpose....