We wtched The Island (2023) for one reason: Michael Jai White. Also, Ms. Spenser needed to work, so I put on sonething where she didn't have to pay attention to.
It starts on The Island - an unnamed Caribbean island, played by St. Kitts and Nevis. A lovely singer is auditioning for club owner Edoardo Costa. He tells her she's hired, and acts very suave, until a wiater spills some wine on her. Then he stabs the waiter in the neck, and tells her she works for him now.
Cut to LA: Two undercover cops, White and Jackson Rathbone, are doing a drug deal. White is quiet and serious, Rathbone a motor-mouthed goofball. Things go wrong, but they handle it easily (at least White does). Then White gets a call - his brother, the waiter, is dead.
He heads for the island and starts investigating. He also meets up with his ex-wife Gillian White (his real-life wife). She teaches martial arts to kids. Think she'll get taken by the bad guys as a hostage? Think she'll get out of it? Will Rathbone show up to help out? You probably don't need to watch to find out.
White is a fine martial artist, although he might be starting to age out. He doesn't have a lot of long fights here. When he does, he is very fast, and his high kicks are flawless. I really wish we had more movies with him really working out. But even when he isn't fighting, he has a great presence and a deep, smooth voice. This movie wasn't anything special, but he made it worth it.
In conclusion, we've been watching a lot of Death In Paradise lately. If you haven't seen it, it's a BBC TV show set on a Caribbean island, where a series of eccentric British police detectives solve a series of seemingly impossible murders. Due to the setting of this movie, I kept getting confused about when the detective would show up.
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