by alex.sp89 on 18 Apr 2019, 03:48
"Another film came out called “Showdown in Little Tokyo” with Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee (deceased son of Bruce Lee), which also used Little Tokyo as a backdrop; it would have been more watchable if the story and acting had been better"
The author of this article is not the greatest critic in the world !!! Both - acting and plot of SILT were fine !!! That was a standard concept of action movies back in late '80s- early '90 s ! Do u think Out for Justice (1991), Double Impact (1991), The Perfect Weapon (1991), Stone Cold (1991) from the same year have a better plot or acting ? They all are the same and became cult classic !!! It is truth some of them worked better at the box office, some not but time show us that these movies stocked in people hearts and still do good in DVD and blu ray sales !
And one more common characteristic for all of them - like SILT they had problems during post-production. Year of 1991 was a trouble year for a lot of companies and MPAA was doing everything possible to put obstacles in every single release:
1. Showdown in Little Tokyo - re-edited from 90 minutes to 78,5 minutes ! We all know the entire story of it already !!! With nowadays standards u even can not call SILT a full length motion picture - it is considered a full length a movie with a duration no less than 80 minutes.
2. Double Impact (1991)- also re-edited many times during post-prod. ! All magazines, news papers advertised this movie with a duration of 118 minutes, but released only with 110 minutes ! This May, after 2 delays, MVD Rewind Collection will release a special edition of DI with 54 minutes of extended /deleted scenes as a special feature ! Originally they announced that they will include two different workprints provided by Sheldon Lettich, but MGM didn't allow them to do that !
3.Out for Justice (1991) - re-edited by studio, Seagal himself and MPAA requests !!! it says that originally movie was 30 minutes longer (rumor or workprint)! To my understanding they deleted 18- 19 minutes from it with initial runtime between 108-110 minutes ! TV version of this flick include two deleted scenes and alternate shots but cut the violence and some parts ! The total runtime of TV version is 93 minutes, but additional two scenes are about seven minutes long ! So 91 minutes theatrical cut plus 7 minutes of those two deleted scenes would be about 98 minutes total.
4. The Perfect Weapon (1991) - also re-edited several times for violence, pace and more screens during the day !!! Theatrical cut of this flick Starring Jeff Speakman is 85 minutes, TV version 90 minutes !!! TV version contain several deleted scenes , most notable are scenes with M. Hargitay who doesn't say a word in theatrical cut, left more like a furniture
5. Stone Cold (1991) - re-edited ans production problems !!! First of all original Director Bruce Malmuth got fired, 4 weeks of work went into trash can, script re-write and over budget !!! After finished movie was ready MPAA demanded cuts for violence (u can see those cuts very easily sometimes when u watch it)
6. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)- the biggest hit of that year also re-edited !!! Movie was kind of too tong and Cameron cut it down to 137 minutes for it's theatrical run !!! After that we got was other cuts - 154 minutes (sometimes "wrong" called director's cut) and 156 minutes Skynet Edition with alternate ending !