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Blackjack | 
| Studio: Manga Entertainment
Category: Video
Buy New: £5.99
New (2) Used (3) from £2.74
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 40639
Format: Animated, Dubbed, Pal, Widescreen
Language: Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 1.2
EAN: 5022366120449
ASIN: B00004CX4Z
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Release Date: January 11, 1999
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The director and action-magician John Woo (Face/Off) can always be counted on to create spectacular violent set pieces, with bodies and broken glass gracefully airborne in slow motion. But everything else in this feature-length TV pilot is grindingly conventional. Woo managed to rise above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, but there's not much he can do with Dolph Lundgren's Jack Devlin, a kick-boxing former U.S. Marshall turned bodyguard, assigned to guard the body of a drug-addicted supermodel (Kam Heskin, from TV's Sunset Beach). Between shootouts, the elements of the future series are wheeled creakingly into place: a spacious Ikea deluxe apartment with a built-in armoury, a caustic eye-patched sidekick (Saul Rubinek), and even a precocious freckle-faced girl (Padraigin Murphy) who becomes Devlin's stepdaughter, when his best buddy is rubbed out. The gorgeous showdown scene between Devlin and the psycho-stalker bad guy (Phillip MacKenzie) takes place in a milk-bottling plant, with the white stuff splashing all over--but this is TV fare, so there's no red stuff mixed in. Action addicts are advised to stick with the world-class gunplay films of Woo's Hong Kong period, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. --David Chute
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| Customer Reviews:
 WELL ANIMATED DRAMA March 26, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie well animated.
its about a talented doctor who fights aginst a company that manufacture a drug that makes human super abillies but then kills them.
The movie is quite a drama thats for sure and its worth looking.
 Styled violence December 21, 2000
Cassio A Francisco (São Paulo, Brazil)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Even in minor productions, such as this made-for-TV movie, chinese director John Woo shows his talent as the contemporary master of slow-motion camera. "Blackjack" tells the story of an FBI agent (Dolph Lundgren) who must protect a model, after his colleague has been wounded in a gunshot. This film has all the essential elements of Woo's works: styled violence (less than we are used to see in the theaters, since it is a TV feature), breathtaking action and a kind of poetic view of present-day life.
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