I've been a fan of Donnie Yen since _Ip Man_ and he was fine here in _Flash Point_ …but the rest of the film just wasn't very good. If you're watching this for the fight scenes, most of them are worth watching, but be warned: with a runtime of 1:27, you'll have to wait the first 59 minutes before you get any fighting action. That's not my biggest complaint, though: the story was just hard to follow and - in my opinion - seemed really vague, not put together very well at all. There's a couple scenes near the beginning of the movie where some Asians are in a bar discussing some kind of "deal" where they're moving "stuff" (nothing specific is ever mentioned but it's worth $80M) to some Vietnamese clients, etc etc but you never really know WHAT, exactly, is happening. You find out that one of the guys is an undercover cop, whose cover eventually gets blown. Now (among other things) here's something I _still_ can't figure out: As the movie progresses, you find out this guy (the undercover cop) is apparently a "devoted family man"… yet at one point in the movie, because it's his birthday, he "has plans" but he calls however many girls - apparently in an attempt to get laid on his birthday - before he finally calls one chick who agrees that when she gets off work, she'll drop by...and wishes him "Happy Birthday". This one chick - the ONLY one that didn't turn him down - turns out to be his wife (?) whom he's dearly devoted to, and who basically turns this whole story into one great _"They've pushed it too far this time"_ story. But I'm sitting here wondering - after calling scores of other chicks (apparently for hours, judging by the switch from late afternoon, when he starts making phone calls, to the wee hours of the night when he's STILL trying to get someone to come keep him company on his birthday) - why did he finally call this chick who's his "wife"?? Was there a time lapse in there that we didn't get screen prompts for? (There _is_ one place where it plainly reads, _Three months later_ ) Anyhoo, the whole film was just difficult to follow; the bit with the 80-year old mother, etc. Lots of loose ends and sub-plots that went nowhere and didn't add to the story.

I enjoy a good Asian film - in fact, let me advise if you're interested in watching this - watch the version on Amazon Prime, which is in Mandarin with English subtitles; the version on Peacock is 100% English-dubbed and it far more difficult to follow (again, IMO). Since watching _Ip Man_ in Mandarin (with English subs) I much prefer to hear the actors speak in their native tongue; overdubbing with an English voice just totally ruins a foreign film as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy a good foreign film, including Asian films, but this one was just sort of thrown into a blender and the results weren't all that great. Not "bad", per se, but just not .... it didn't make for a riveting movie, IMO. The fight scenes were good - albeit a couple of them were really eyeroll-worthy - but the story was difficult to follow, very vague, and while this certainly wasn't the worst, this definitely wasn't the BEST movie I've ever watched. Not even the best foreign film.

I did enjoy the conclusion/closing scene though; way to wrap it up nicely.