Sometimes bad acting can be considerably entertaining. However, there are times when the acting is sooooo bad it antagonizes the thoughts virulently and viewers will find themselves banging their heads against a wall, hoping to die. Of course, it wouldn't hurt to turn off the f!@#in' movie, but that's your problem. My reactions to this film's abysmal acting were insane. I wanted to sodomize the DVD of "Blood Heat", but if I snapped the bitch in half, I couldn't sell it back to a recycled DVD store, so sexual assault was more rational, but I didn't follow through. ALMOST, I guarantee it. :)

I'm sorry to those who liked this film's action and so forth, but the horrid acting overshadows the film, I'm afraid. I mean, I wanted this film to end with everyone being mutilated to death, especially the ass who played the Sewer Rat leader. HE PISSED ME OFF! "We are the Sewer Rats and we are retarded. Now we blow up your arena. (Ground explodes.) Whooo-hooo! Yeah! Uhhhh!" SHUT UP!!!!!!

The conception was nice, but unfortunately the story was poorly told and the horrid acting that goes along with it just made the film seem rather bleak.

If, however, you don't have conflicts with any personalities, annoying or otherwise, because it's more than likely you are annoying in your nature, this film does have great action. But I've said this before and I'll proudly say it a million times more: GREAT ACTION ALONE DOES NOT MAKE A GREAT MOVIE.

Not recommended unless you like being violated by a pogo sick.

U.S. Navy Seal Joe Jinno (Kane Kosugi) is released from an American military detention center to the decrepit Tokyo of 2009 as an agent recruited by the Japanese government to bust drug traffickers. The most popular drug is an extrmely addictive steroid known as Blood Heat. Drug lords, hiding out in the worst parts of Tokyo, push their products while running a no-rules combat circuit where fighters, high on Blood Heat battle to the death. Joe's partner Aguri Katsuragi (Sho Aikawa) is captured by drug lord Kenji Rai (Masaya Kato)and forced to fight in the circuit against Blood Heat addict Lee Son-min (Ken Lo). He's brutally killed and Joe vows revenge. While Kenji attempts to force a scientist to manufacture more Blood Heat, Joe allies himself with Aguri's daughter and a group of orphaned children known as "Sewer Rats" and they declare war on the drug lord and his operation.

Let me just say that I, for one, am glad that drug dealers have finally made a name for a drug that can be an apprpriate action movie tittle. Kane has some of the fastest moves put on film.

He seems to always be attacking his opponents from every direction, and is able to deliver more punches in a split second than you can possibly count.

Several matches are worthy some karate oscar award. The hallway fight, which begins with Kane turning a corner and hurling two knives down the hall, is mind-blowing, and may be the the only scene since the original POLICE STORY to shatter so much glass. Kane's lenghty cage match with Ken Lo, who is aging but nevertheless can kick with the best of them, provides some of the best action. Kane's aggression in this scene is unparalled by any other fight in BLOOD HEAT.

The final match between Kane and Masaya Kato, of DRIVE fame, is also well done, and, to quote kungfucinema.com, "may be the first time in film history that two screen fighters duel with sledgehammers."

BLOOD HEAT ranks up with other great Japanese martial arts movies as THE PRINCESS BLADE and is fully worthy of repeated viewing. Kane's stepping out from his father's shadow mirrors Brandon Lee stepping out of Bruce's shadow and making a few great movies of his own before his tragic death (RAPID FIRE being the best one.) Kane may be new to having the lead in a martial arts movie, but if BLOOD HEAT is an indication of anything, it's of Kane's ability to carry an action movie.