An Eye For An Eye (1981) starring Chuck Norris
Saturday, 1. April 2006, 13:16:06
According to The Assassin's Handbook 2, Warren Murphy regrets not letting Chuck Norris make a Destroyer movie. Chuck Norris may not have been quite right to play Remo but it would have been interesting.Which is why AN EYE FOR AN EYE is such an interesting movie, it stars Chuck Norris as Sean Kane, a San Francisco narcotics officer, who is thrown off the force after his partner is killed during an undercover operation. Kane is then contected by his partner's widow who has uncovered the leader of the drug gang who murdered her husband, she is then also murdered.
Sean has to see her father and his karate teacher, James Chan (played by Mako). Kane and Chan then team up to take down the drug lord played by Christopher Lee.
Kane and Chan work together for the second half of the movie. Chan is constantly berating Kane, that his stance is wrong and that Kane is not centred enough. The relationship between Kane and Chan is very much like that of Remo and Chuin.
This is an enjoyable film in it's own right but it is interesting as it shows how Chuck Norris may have handled the role of Remo Williams with Mako as Chuin. (although one wonders could James Chan be the older version of Jimmy Chan, son of Charlie Chan as played by Victor Sen Yung in the Charlie Chan movies)
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