Two Tigers

By Cyril Pearl -- Video Business, 11/3/2008

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Street: Nov. 25
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> Disappointing Asian-styled action flick delivers lovely leading ladies—and not much else.

The lives of a high-class call girl from China (Selena Khoo) and a professional killer from Hungary (Andrea Osvárt) intertwine in Shanghai in this surprisingly low-octane thriller, which doesn’t contain the heavy doses of action, intrigue and sexuality that genre audiences have come to expect. With its Italian director and screenwriter, Asian and Hungarian leading ladies (both lovely!) and Shanghai locale, Two Tigers is indeed an unusual little cocktail, but save for a shootout and seduction scene or two, there simply isn’t enough going on in the story or its rather uninspired telling to keep one interested for more than a half-hour.

Shelf Talk: There is little in Two Tigers that fans of Asian-flavored shoot-’em-ups and sex stories haven’t already seen to better effect in dozens of other titles. The titular tigers might drum up some interest, as they’re known in international circles, particularly Osvárt, who has been a regular presence in Hungarian and Italian cinema and TV for nearly a decade.

Action, color, NR (violence, nudity, sexual situations), DVD $26.98
Extras: none
Director: Sandro Checco
First Run: Italian TV, 2007