It's not the best action movie or one of the top movies of the 90's or anything like that but hey, its a fun flick starring the macho Dolph Lundgren and the late great Brandon Lee.

They basically play two LA cops working on a case in LA's Little Tokyo involving Drug Lords that were linked to Lundgren's past. Dolph and Brandon give great kung fu performances as they utilize their martial arts skills and beat some serious crap outta the drug lords. Especially with the sword fight at the end end between Lundgren and the head drug lord.

The script is pretty cheesy though and the story not very original and I could name a bunch of things that aren't too realistic about this picture but the fun never lets up and their are some good one liners. Just as long as you don't take it serious its a good old fashion B-Movie martial arts flick.

Mark Lester knows exactly what you want and gives it to you. Let me set a scene in this film for you: Brandon Lee, dressed in a natty suit, joins Dolph Lungren - who is dressed as if he walked straight off the set of a Data East beat 'em up - to walk into a bar where old men are eating sushi off of nude models while two slightly less nude women fight sumo style atop tables. Meanwhile, on a stage that looks like the Fortress of Solitude, Tia Carrere sings "Slow Hand."

To top that off, there's a scene where evil Iron Claw Yakuza boss Funekei Yoshida (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) kills Angel by cutting her head off while engaging in foreplay as his underlings watch. And when they find her headless body? Yep. That's the church from Prince of Darkness.

No movie has had meaner bad guys more worthy of being killed by two cooler cops. You have Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren), an American raised in Japan, teaming with Japanese/America Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee). While they hate one another at first, they soon become great partners and murder everyone who gets in their way to solve the case.

There's also a bonkers scene where Kenner rescues Tia's character from committing seppuku by tackling her through a plate glass window. There is no subtlety here.

Somehow, the Iron Claw has united the Crips, the Mexican gangs and the Hell's Angels. And if you wondered, where is Professor Toru Tanaka? He's right here.

This is a movie self-aware enough to have Brandon Lee's character say, "You have the biggest dick I've ever seen on a man," while also having the most over the top action sequences to ever be released straight to the shelves of your local video store and a body count of 58.

After being disappointed by Warner Brothers taking over this film and cutting eleven minutes, Lester started to finance and sell his movies himself to keep control over them. Good for him.

Showdown In Little Tokyo might be the campiest, most hilarious classic eighties/early nineties buddy cop film I've ever seen. I mean in all reality the movie is god awful!! The story is weak, the acting is campy, even the action scenes are done in such a cheap manner and some of the lines in the film are just downright laughable. So why is this one of the best movies I've seen in weeks?? For me it became an instant eighties/early nineties classic. Some of the greatest most memorable one-liners and scenes, an absolutely stoned faced and at the same time hilarious Dolph Lundgren, blatant nudity and bad language and violence, it's a rip roaring good time and I mean it!!

Would be action super-star Dolph Lundgren plays Sgt. Chris Kenner. I say would be because despite his attempts and his typical action oriented look he never really struck big screen gold. Despite some high profile roles as Rocky's brutal Russian adversary in Rocky IV and Marvel's The Punisher he never really caught on but you'd never know it from this role because he is amazing. Yes the role is campy, don't get me wrong, there is a million things wrong with this role but Kenner is a stone faced samurai out for vengeance against the man who killed his parents and Lundgren is terrific. The man fills a screen like Schwarzeneggar and is just as tough. He tips over cars, blasts away with machine guns and saves the girl all in one swoop. Brandon Lee is Lundgren's sidekick, Johnny Murata. I say sidekick and not partner because Lee is really there strictly to support, idolize and play funny guy to Dolph Lundgren. I liked Lee's character alright but he just wasn't there much, didn't do a whole lot and even what was supposed to funny wise cracks weren't really. Although he does deliver the classic "You have the right to remain dead" line which still cracks me up. Him and Lundgren have decent chemistry and as some reviewers have pointed out a rather odd...perhaps slightly ambiguous relationship. Some remarks Lee make do indeed hint that perhaps Lee's character might like Kenner a little too much but I think the writers were just trying to be funny and establish a bond between them. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is a terrific bad guy as he plays evil Japanese drug dealer Yoshida. This guy has no morals at all and hacks and chops his way through anyone. I remember him best as the bad guy Tsang-Tsung in Mortal Kombat but he is even more evil in this. A young and slightly pre-Wayne's World Tia Carrere plays Kenner's love interest Minako who he saves from the clutches of the bad guys. She doesn't get many lines and she is more or less there to be eye candy and strip naked (sorry boys it's a body double) when necessary but her and Lundgren actually fit together pretty well.

Some might think in reading this review that I am being completely sarcastic and hated this film but that simply is not the case. I really truly enjoyed watching this but I guess I just can't explain why exactly?? Everything is in place for this to be a real crappy but somehow it makes you love every minute of it. The film is really short and the story is so simplistic that any action that does happen is just gratuitous violence and blowing things up. But hey guys or fans of action will just love the campy one liners and the hilarious action scenes. I think this is an absolute must see and for the few Dolph Lundgren fans out there this is the reason why he should be a star!! It's only too bad there was no sequel!! 9/10