Eye Candy #333 - "The Fifth Commandment"

The Fifth Commandment:  C-list actor Rick Yune (best known as Zao from “Die Another Day”) cranks the dial on the Way-Way-Back Machine to the mid-1990’s for his first screenwriting effort, the story of an Asian assassin fighting other nefarious Asian stereotypes in a film that looks like it was swiped from other films over 10 years old.  Chance Templeton (that names just SCREAMS 1994) is an orphaned youngster raised as an assassin by “Coolbreeze” (Keith David, proving again that he has yet to find the script that is not worth his time).  When he decides to square off against some other assassins to prevent them from killing a pop star in Thailand, he joins his former adoptive “brother” (Bokeem Woodbine) who was also raised by Coolbreeze.  As this film was produced by Rick Yune, written by Rick Yune, and featured Rick Yune, it has one major drawback…Rick Yune.  He has the acting depth of a large stone and sounds like he‘s trying his best Dirty Harry impression.  His script is tired cliché after tired cliché that we’ve all seen Chow Yun Fat do better.  The only thing he has going for him is that he happens to be an Asian guy that is 6 feet tall.  Woodchuck sez, “Pretty crappy.”