Synopsis: A vice cop investigates the kidnapping of the teenage daughter of a Japanese executive working in Los Angeles. The kidnapper is a pimp who uses underage girls.
Appraisal: Mostly routine B-film that exaggerates on the stereotypes. It is not completely negligible, as it analyses some more complex situations. One of them is the cop's issue with his own daughter's emerging sexuality and how this issue relates to his xenophobia; another one is the Japanese executive's confused approach to sex, which gets even more confused when he is transplanted to a society that is different from his own. In the action department, it also has some interesting bits, particularly a sequence with a junkyard crane. All that being said, I must take points from my rating because the film relies too much on nastiness, which is done not because it is required in order to tell the story but with the intention to pander to the audience's baser instincts.
Rating: 35
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