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An unheralded shootout at a diner leaves escaped convict Sonny (Jason
Cavalier) and reporter Ross (Kevin Woodhouse) making a hasty getaway in
the same car - and with them they've got the Sword of Destiny, a
sword that's said to be forged out of the spear that pierced Jesus's side
and that's supposed to give unspeakable power to whoever touches it.
Somehow Ross has picked it up form a dying man at the diner, and now he
and Sonny decide to return it to its rightful owner - for a reward of
course. Now all of this sounds pretty ... well, I don't know exactly how
that sounds, but there's something that complicates matters: crime kingpin
Mr Park (Hyung Chul Kim) wants the sword, so he sends his son Tommy
(Harrison Chan) to get it, and Tommy hires pretty much everybody in the
neighbourhood, including three hot gun-wielding tough-as-nails chicks
(Melantha Blackthorne, Danielle Dubois, Isabelle Stephen), a cowardly but
resourceful stripclub owner (David Findlay) and a mean debt collector (Tim
Walker) to help him get it. For some reason, all of these people have
advanced kung fu skills, and so do Sonny and Ross. Oh, and there's another
problem, Sonny has just spent 6 years in jail, so he falls for every nice
female piece of ass that happens to come along his way ... and Tommy sends
plenty. After many a chase and fight, Mr Park gets the sword and Sonny
and Ross both end up dead ... but there's a good Samaritan (Dean Leslie)
who apparently has learned the Lazarus-trick from Jesus, and he brings
Sonny back to life to retrieve the sword and bring it to its rightful
owner. Sonny does so by taking out Park and his entire army pretty much
single-handedly, then he drops off the sword where it belongs to - the
city museum ... I cannot deny one thing: Order of One
doesn't make a lot of sense ... and for a change that's a good thing,
because Order of One is a film that's not to be taken too
seriously, it's something you're supposed to have fun watching. Basically,
writer/director Kevin Woodhouse has made up the story of his film from
grindhouse clichées, re-arranged them in a loving manner, then added
irony to the mix to create something enjoyably over-the-top. As a
consequence, he has created a world that couldn't be further removed from
realism but makes sense all in itself, a world where everybody knows
martial arts, where a crime kingpin wants a magic sword (though the sword
really doesn't do very much other than bring back bad memories), a world
where female assassins wear sexy outfits in garish colours, and where the
best kung fu blows are accompanied by onscreen inserts giving them crazy
names. In a word, this is FUN!!!
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