![]() ![]() Martial arts, by the way, are copious and choreographed with typical excellence by Tim Man. We’re used to thrill at the perfection of his martial arts delivery, but now he can make us laugh too? The former in particular is on very fine form here, displaying heretofore unsuspected comedic skills: he’s always been fine at deadpan and punchlines, but to see him wandering wild-eyed around Saigon, creeping out passers-by by angrily stuttering at them, or repeatedly slapping himself while trying to explain his plight to a doctor, is a novel and welcome sight. Adkins and On’s low-key but sturdy chemistry is one of them: the two of them are among the finest screen fighters working today, and both growing as actors. Yet for all its limited means and ambitions, it’s a solidly entertaining little thriller that keeps scoring minor victories. With its unpolished screenplay, cheap locations (downtown Saigon and some abandoned warehouses), inconsistent cinematography, cheesy CGI and brazen use of bright green hues to signify the otherworldly, Abduction has the unmistakable – and oddly comforting – feel of an early-2000s straight-to-DVD. To find his daughter, he teams up with Conner (Andy On), a soldier turned enforcer whose wife was just abducted by the same beings, and with Anna (Truong Ngoc Anh), a doctor who’s the only one to believe them. It follows Quinn (Scott Adkins) a man who following the kidnapping of his daughter in 1985, wakes up in 2018 Saigon, having not aged one bit, and with vague recollections of fighting inter-dimensional beings. Fortunately, Abduction falls into the latter category. Behind the camera is Ernie Barbarash, whose output includes the bad (Cuba Gooding Jr vehicle Hardwired), the middling (Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicles Assassination Games and Pound of Flesh) and the solid (Michael Jai White vehicle Falcon Rising and another JCVD, Six Bullets). The firearm specifications include having a weapon while the crime was taking place, which could add one year to his sentence if convicted, and brandishing the weapon or otherwise indicating to an alleged victim that Barr had or would use it, which would add three years to his sentence.17 years after they co-starred – at the very beginning of their respective careers – in one of the worst films of all time, Tsui Hark’s Black Mask 2: City of Masks, Scott Adkins and Andy On are back together, this time in a Chinese straight-to-vod executive-produced by Roger Corman, no less. ![]() The first-degree misdemeanor carries a sentence of six months. The first-degree felonies carry a potential sentence of three to 11 years in prison, and the third-degree felonies a sentence of three years. Should he post bond, Barr was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim. These are first-degree felony aggravated robbery with a firearms specification, first-degree felony kidnapping with two firearms specifications, third-degree felony tampering with evidence with a firearms specification, third-degree felony having weapons under disability with a firearm specification, and first-degree misdemeanor theft.īelmont County Common Pleas Judge John Vavra set Barr’s plea agreement deadline for March 13, and his trial was set for March 28. On Thursday, Charles Barr, 22, of Township Road 242, Toronto, was arraigned and pleaded innocent to five charges. ![]()
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