War (2007 film)
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| Directed by | Philip G. Atwell |
| Produced by | Steve Chasman Christopher Petzel Jim Thompson |
| Written by | Lee Anthony Smith Gregory J. Bradley |
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Jet Li Jason Statham |
| Music by | Brian Tyler |
| Cinematography | Pierre Morel |
| Edited by | Scott Richter |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Cantonese Japanese Mandarin |
| Budget | $25 million |
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$40,452,643 $27,507,988(Domestic DVD sales) $67.9 million(Net Gross) |
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| Released | August 21, 2007 |
| Length | 65:09 |
| Label | Lionsgate Records |
$40,452,643 $27,507,988(Domestic DVD sales)
War is a 2007 American action crime thriller film directed by Philip G. Atwell in his directorial debut and also featuring fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film stars Jet Li and Jason Statham. The film was released in the United States on August 24, 2007. War features a collaboration between Jet Li and Jason Statham, reuniting them for the first time since 2001's The One. Jason Statham plays an FBI agent determined to take down a mysterious assassin known as Rogue (played by Jet Li), after his partner is murdered.
War's working title was Rogue; it was changed to avoid conflict with another film with the same name. It was re-titled as Rogue Assassin in New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Australia, the Philippines, and several European countries.
During a shootout against Chinese Triads at a San Francisco dock warehouse, FBI agents John Crawford (Jason Statham) and Tom Lone (Terry Chen) stumble across the notorious assassin Rogue (Jet Li), a former CIA assassin who now works for the Japanese Yakuza. Rogue ambushes Crawford and is about to execute him when Lone appears and shoots Rogue in the face, causing him to fall into the water. Rogue's body was never found and he is presumed dead. However, Rogue survives and retaliates against Lone, his wife and his daughter. He kills them, burns down the house, and leaves their three corpses in the ashes of their home.
Three years later, Rogue re-appears, working under Chinese Triad boss Li Chang (John Lone). Rogue is assisting Chang against Chang's arch-enemy and Rogue's former employer, the leader of the Japanese Yakuza, Shiro Yanagawa (Ryo Ishibashi). Rogue first attacks a club run by the Yakuza by killing the gangsters and later on the runners in order to recover a pair of antique gold horses, family heirlooms of Chang. However, Rogue is secretly setting the Yakuza and the Triads against each other, in order to push the two factions toward all-out war.
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