Another delightfully cheesy action movie from the guy who brought us COMMANDO and CLASS OF 1999. SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO is full of clichés from start to finish, contains an incredibly poor script, bad acting, and tons of gratuitous sex and violence. It's the classic action B-movie, absolutely hilarious in places without meaning to be, and a lot of fun with it because it's just so bad. There is no plot to this film. Lundgren and Lee are two nominal policeman, partnered up in a fight against a Japanese drug lord. The whole film consists of them battling the Japanese in one way or another. There is no police presence in this film, no other characters apart from the bad guys, the good guys, and the love interest. The script is full of dumb, occasionally offensive one-liners which nevertheless add up to make this an entertaining experience.Lester goes out of his way to deliver as much adult entertainment as he possibly can. Thus we get naked hookers being beheaded, tons of naked women around at every possible moment, Tia Carrera's body double being brought out at every opportunity. The violence is just as extreme, with people getting impaled, slashed, stabbed, gutted, having their little finger cut off, plus tons of shooting and the like. The destruction level is high. Buildings explode and burn to the ground, people are thrown through tables and windows. There's a ton of heavy weaponry and plenty of exciting martial arts fight sequences, with all the violent neck-breaking you could ever want.One of the fun things about this film is watching all the mistakes and inconsistencies play out. My favourite scenes are the dummy in the car crusher and the fight at the end, where Lundgren gets shot through the heart and shrugs off the bullet. Acting-wise, Lundgren and Lee put in extremely poor performances. Yet they kick a lot of ass all the way through the film, which is the main thing. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has a ball as the slimy, reptilian villain Yoshida – in fact he did so well in it he spent a career copying this character in many straight-to-video movies throughout the '90s. Tia Carrera is hopeless in her debut. Generally, this film is a lot of fun, despite it being shallow, brainless, clichéd, and unsurprising. Yet once in a while it's nice to sit back and chill out in front of a guy film like this.

I mean, what? Dolph Lundgren is in it, or at least on the box that the film comes in. I think I've seen this but, alcohol, so I don't know.The other guy on the box has a cool name and once played a dead bird in another movie.I thought Tokyo was a big city, but I guess it's rather little if I am to believe the title of this film.Anyway, I should see this movie again and so should you. This Saturday, your place. I will order a pizza and then when it comes, be like, "Whoa person, I don't live here, I'm not paying for this pizza that I *didn't* order." Then I'll wink at the pizza delivery man or woman (I'm PCU now) and he or she will be like, "I'm a MAN. Stop winking at me." Then, free pizza!107/10

This film here was the first Brandon Lee American movie. He had done some limited TV spots and a film in Hong Kong prior to Showdown in Little Tokyo though. For a low-budget film, it's sure to keep both Lee and Lundgren fans enthralled. The fight scenes are well choreographed, and the banter between Lee and Lundgren adds some humor as well. A young Tia Carrere (age 24 at time of filming) is a knockout. The hot tub scene where she climbs in with Dolph is memorable. As with all sword play films, there are some very gruesome scenes but overall not too graphic. In some ways this was your standard white samurai/ninja story and really I usually hate those movies but somehow having Dolph Lundgren as the white samurai it made it OK.This movie is filled with cheesy moments so bad you'll die laughing. I enjoyed this film's badness because it seemed so serious in what it was trying to produce. My favorite part was when Lundgren jumps over the convertible. He must be about eight feet in the air! Michael Jordon couldn't do such a stunt without scraping his feet on the car. "Showdown in Little Tokyo" needs to be seen to be believed. Is it tons of fun? You bet. Is is also very ridiculous? Of course! Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

There are spectacular parts to this hopeless piece of film making. Like spectacularly bad delivery of the awful dialogue. Like a plot with no firm parts to hold together the holes. Like characters getting shot "straight through" the lung and just keep fighting on. Like policemen having no regards for police work, the law, civilization. Like characters picking up "samurai swords" from parade actors and use them for a life and dead fight.When I feel like watching terribly bad action movies with crazy plots, and wooden acting leads, constantly looking for an excuse to lose their shirt, I prefer the works of Andy Sidaris where at least the constantly topless leads are female and rather nice looking Playboy models (with less plastic surgery than Dolph Lundgreen)