Logan's War: Bound by Honor (1998)

this movies weird. good but weird. its been a while since i saw it but the one thing i remember is that near the end the heros about to be killed by some mafia goon sneaking up on him and chuck norris suddenly appears from a cupboard!! its like he was in narnia or something and got out at the best possible time.also he kicks a guy trough the windshield of his car which doesn't make much sense since the cars actually going to run him over PLUS the guy in the car dies which is impossible as far as i know but hey other than those weird little bits i remember it being a decent film and worth watching (especially to laugh at chuck appearing out of nowhere!!!)so if u have a bit of time to waste rent this out and have a laugh (hey its worth it for like 2 quid right?)

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsLogan's War is a film nobody could accuse of being misleading.You wanted a straight-forward Chuck Norris action film,you got it.Regular Norris director Michael Preece handles proceedings in an utterly standard fashion,with unremarkable dialogue,an obviously restricted budget, a predictable story and acting that seems to have been lifted from Disney's The Lion King ,with Eddie Cibrian in the role of the Simba character.Completely ordinary,but this is either a good or a bad thing ,depending on how you look at it.**

It's extraordinary that no one had the common sense to release Logan's War theatrically. This is perhaps one of the best action thrillers to emerge from America's film factory in quite some time. The storyline is touching, without being oversentimental, the acting is everything you can expect from America's finest and the director should be commended for his brilliantly handled action sequences. I predict that Logan's War: Bound by Honour will become a cult classic. I give it 9/10.By the way, I'm lying! The acting is terrible, Michael Preece can't direct his way out of a paperbag (here's just five examples - excessive use of dissolves, corny use of a colour filter, annoying flashbacks, pathetic zooming, and the "dramatic" slow motion deaths. He's NO John Woo!) and God, don't get me started on those stupid sub plots, particularly the (dammit, too late).. protagonist rescuing the boy and his mother from the abusive stepfather. How exactly does that serve the rest of the story... oh yes, to remind ourselves what a hero/nice guy Logan is!? I can say this for it - it's a masterpiece of implausibility. What's with that silly flying kick at the end.If any of you are have lost confidence in the America action film, may I heal you with past memories of Face Off, Terminator 2, The Matrix and Steven Spielberg's magnificent Raiders of the Lost Ark.

While this has all the elements of another story where a boy sees his family killed and waits till he's older to exact revenge, this is special because there is at least a pretty tight plot and some great fighting scenes, and the main actors, Chuck Norris and Eddie Cibrian as uncle and nephew, share a special sixth sense when it comes to danger. The fight scenes are well choreographed and shows why when Norris is involved, there is bound to be hands and feet (and bodies) flying.