For Jade who fits the characteristics of an animated character, everything unfolded as a nightmare in the US. Along with Brandon, her brother, Jade flew to Albuquerque after the barbaric slaying of her parents back in London. There is ambiguity regarding the killing and Jade has no idea how she got involved with a street gang and unintentionally took her brother’s life. Just like that so many questions lie unanswered. Be it anything, Jade has sworn to herself to never come anywhere close to holding a gun.
The audience is taken to a scene for a film in which Shaina West, who Plays the role of Rainbow and has also been viewed previously in black widow, and The Woman King gets a clearer insight into how Jade lives after the shooting which was accidental. Jade gets invited to her friend Layla’s house, however, it is clear that Layla’s pregnancy coupled with Jade’s betrayal has affected her deeply in such a way that she does not desire to show any sort of affection toward Jade.
On top of everything else, she is soon thrown into the position of the inadvertent possessor of a digital drive that a few men, thugs precisely, working for Tork, who otherwise is a businessman whom one would expect Mickey Rourke (Wrestler, Angel Heart) to portray, seeks. How dangerous are these guys? Well, these guys are pretty rough, at one point in time, they literally commence physically torturing someone to try and get the location of the drive, paper cuts for example. After some suitably comical and rather well-placed smacks on this poor sod’s knees, his face gets doused with some lemon juice! now tell me which dude would try and get away from all that pain, exactly that kind of pain all they send him.
In Air Force One Down James Bamford makes his feature film debut in Jade which was directed by him, however in turn it does not seem to be done. Inga’s approach to matters serves as one example considering his speech’s regularity and prominence. To elaborate, why would one use half a dozen insulting and offensive words when Gael is virtually guaranteed to be more ominous? But Bamford’s script as well as Lynn Colliar’s film which he co-wrote with Glenn Ennis has always had issues.
The veil is similar in appearance to the Scylla a modern variation of an old Greek legend. The style allows traffic to unconsciously merge With Nevada as the gaudy radio that once ruled in cars comes to disillusionment as a tune jangly airs. In the end, in a fight scene, Jade has cut one of her character actresses’ throats. Appearing as she fussed on the wall, decorative large letters began to spray blood and this quite startlingly changed to Fatality while her voice once again went into a macho mode.
Or, to take another example, a Spanish-speaking individual is shown a video of a wall with what they are saying displayed rather than the translated version on the bottom of the screen, accompanied by subtitles. And even, for those who enjoy watching and calculating, a participant’s statistical kill score is displayed on the upper border of the frame.
The same can be said of how the editing of the action sequences is integrated as well. Some of them are quite rather simple, so the fighter can showcase his or her moves, Some others, though, are utterly exaggerated and more like editing of clips from a video game. Some are also just plain ridiculous, such as Jade having to murder someone by throwing her Afros comb like shuriken at the person, for instance, when she’s met with someone.
It’s unfortunate as some of the fights, which Bamford directs, but does not try to exaggerate the stylization of, tend to be alright. West certainly has the performance skills that would allow him to construct a decent grappling sequence, and I don’t believe age has adversely affected actor Mark Dacascos (who voiced Wolf in ”Brotherhood of the Wolf and Blade of the 47 Ronin), who has a brief cameo role as Will’s father. He’s one of Jade’s parents’ friends, saying, “THE INTERPOL that Dad said you were running a fitness club?” but all his fight scenes were just carnival acts.
What is inside the hard disk? Bamford was infuriated with the audience when he exited the screen saying I shall never show it to the audience! or the over-concern about Jade’s brother’s death, which has been I guess otherwise exposed in other stories. This was to be cynical but rather it was just plain stupid.
In this way, Jade looks like a character who can be penned due to the fact that the storyline has sufficient confrontation and drama but it goes out of its intended budget by trying to inject more action sequences followed by the introduction of certain angled shots that seem out of place with the story.
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