Hawk's Vengeance

Hawk's Vengeance is a 1996 Canadian action film directed by Marc F. Voizard, starring Gary Daniels, Jayne Heitmeyer, Cass Magda and George Chiang.

Hawk meets Lipo, a young member of the Ba Wang, an ethnic Chinese gang, who informs him that Soldier was killed while investigating a rival skinhead group, the Death Skulls.

As part of the official investigation, Hampton is called to the morgue, where a badly mutilated body has been delivered: several organs are missing and she recognizes the Ba Wang's tattoo on one arm.

[1] Hawk's Vengeance was the second actioner in quick succession for Quebec director Marc F. Voizard, who had made the Roddy Piper vehicle Marked Man over the summer, and previously specialized in dramatic television.

Writing for the Knight Ridder family of newspapers, Randy Myers thought that while "Daniels [was] good", Hawk's Vengeance displayed "all-time insipidness" and was "downright stupid".

"[16] While acknowledging that "youthful members of the martial-arts crowd will probably appreciate the fight scenes", Alan Levine of The Arizona Republic was critical of Gary Daniels and Cass Magda's "bad acting" and the film's "predictable stereotypes".

[19] More positive was Gerard Fratley in his book A Century of Canadian Cinema; calling the film "not bad", he found it "interesting to see the criminal scene through the eyes of 'a copper' from 'over there'".

[20] The BBC's RadioTimes was perhaps most positive, calling it "another proficient straight-to-video thriller from Gary Daniels", but noted that he was "almost overshadowed by newcomer Cass Magda, who provides a masterclass in sword and stick fighting".