White Tiger (1996 film)

White Tiger is a 1996 Canadian-American action film directed by Richard Martin, starring Gary Daniels, Julia Nickson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, George Cheung and Lisa Langlois.

Daniels stars as a disenfranchised DEA agent looking to eliminate the triad boss (Tagawa) responsible for the death of his partner, while succumbing to the charms of a mysterious woman (Nickson) who may be a killer herself.

While some actors from the first version were apparently left under the impression that filming might resume with them,[2] it was found more practical to discard all of the Hong Kong material and redo the movie from scratch, keeping the outline of Logan's script.

[1] As it had previously done in the past, KeyStone partnered with Den Pictures, the California-based company founded by Japanese expatriate J. Max Kirishima (who has a minor role in the film).

The villain's main henchman was played by Ron Yuan, whom he asked the production to bring over from Los Angeles, as the two had remained friends following their first experience working together on Ring of Fire.

[8]: 48:12 Villain Victor Chow's lair was located aboard the SS Prince George, a passenger ship turned floating hotel docked in Britannia Beach while waiting to be sold.

[9] Although spectacular, the fiery explosions rocking the deck during the film's finale were not meant to damage its structure, and the ship remained afloat in the shoot's immediate aftermath.

The magazine added that while "Daniels might be capable in the martial arts", he suffered from a "bland personality" and "somnambulistic acting", concluding that "[a]s with most films of this type, more imagination has gone into the stunts than the script.

"[17] British reference book Elliot's Guide to Home Entertainment was no more enthusiastic, writing that it "ha[d] nothing original to offer " and was "not exactly helped by a weak and lifeless performance from Daniels".

[18] The BBC's Radio Times was more amenable to the film as a whole, calling it "an efficient crime thriller", but it, too, found fault with Daniels' performance, writing that he "lacks the charisma to carry the action between the fight sequences.