Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

United States of America

Action, Crime, Drama, Hollywood Movies Hindi Dubbed, Hindi Dubbed Movies, Dual Audio, Hollywood Movies, English Movies

Silver Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

Jet Li, DMX, Kelly Hu, Anthony Anderson, Tom Arnold, Mark Dacascos

Andrzej Bartkowiak

John O'Brien, Channing Gibson

Taglines: Born 2 the life. True 2 the code. Bad 2 the bone.

robbery, diamond, intelligence, bank robber, thief, bank robbery, financial transactions, hoodlum

Gang leader Tony pulls off a major diamond heist with his crew, but cop-turned-criminal Ling knows who has the loot and responds by kidnapping Tony's daughter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, Tony's lost the diamonds as well. As he frantically searches for his daughter and the jewels, Tony pairs with a high-kicking government agent who once worked with Ling and seeks revenge on him.

Reviews:

Author: John Chard
High on action, low on grey matter. I guess when push comes to shove it’s an action film that delivers the requisite supply of biff, bam and kerpow action sequences. Yet even allowing for the old “leave the brain at the door” requirement for such action comic malarkey, the script is too poor, the acting equally so, while the choreography is weak. The latter of which a big misstep when you have Jet Li and Mark Dacascos fronting the good guy/bad guy axis of the story. Plot pitches Li’s ass kicking detective with DMX’s urban thief together as an unlikely buddy buddy combo trailing missing diamonds and DMX’s kidnapped daughter, and that’s pretty much it. There’s no attempts to expand the characters or add some emotional depth to what is meant to be a pretty critical situation. It often feels tired, like a recycling of so many other film’s of similar ilk, originality is out the window here, hell they even get Tom Arnold in to reprise a watered down version of his character from True Lies. Gabrielle Union and Kelly Hu are on hand to add the sexy sizzle in thankless roles, while Dacascos barely registers as an uber villain. Lazy and redundant, all told, a waste of time for cast and viewers alike. 4/10