The Art of War III: Retribution
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| Directed by | Gerry Lively |
| Produced by | Philip B. Goldfine Dan Lyon Ari Newman |
| Written by | Joe Halpin |
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Treach Warren Derosa Sung-Hi Lee Janet Carroll Leo Lee |
| Music by | Louis Castle James Bairian |
| Cinematography | Suki Medencevic |
| Edited by | Randy Carter |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States South Korea |
| Language | English |
The Art of War III: Retribution is a 2009 direct-to-DVD action film starring Treach, Warren Derosa, Sung-Hi Lee and Leo Lee. It is the second sequel to the 2000 action film The Art of War, though was the first sequel to that film to be produced.
Agent Neil Shaw (Treach), who has returned to working for the United Nations, assassinates an arms dealer in downtown Los Angeles and also kills a suicide bomber who was there as part of an unrelated plot, but is reprimanded by his superior, Gaines, for his indiscreetness in doing so. Shaw is nonetheless sent on a mission to South Korea, which is a few days away from a peaceful reunion with North Korea, though the process is threatened by North Korean separatists who are rumored to be buying a nuclear weapon from Russian arms dealers. The mission quickly goes wrong when one of the two agents under Shaw's command is spotted and shot dead by a sniper, resulting in a firefight in which Shaw finds a woman named Sun Yi (Sung-Hi Lee) with the arms dealers; he considers her to be out of place, and captures her in order to get answers out of her, though the second agent under Shaw's command is also killed as they leave the scene.
Shaw and his remaining agent, Jason (Warren Derosa) attempt to interrogate Sun Yi, but find that she knows nothing of importance. Shaw then tries to contact Gaines, who has just arrived in South Korea, but men working for the arms dealer intercept and kill Gaines, and plant evidence to frame Shaw for his murder. Shortly afterwards, Kim (Leo Lee), one of the men at the earlier meeting, arrives with several men under his command, leading to a firefight in which Shaw kills two of Kim's men before he, Jason and Sun Yi escape the scene. After getting to a hotel in the local red light district, Shaw concludes, over Jason's objections, that the best course of action is to break into Seoul's United Nations branch and personally appeal to the Secretary-General. That night Shaw and Sun Yi make love, but are interrupted by the arrival of more armed men, who Shaw is forced to kill.
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