War (or Rogue the assassin, the much better title chosen by many countries)

There are Jet Li and Jason Statham, which for me is a good thing .-D I would have liked this film more with a different finale, I didn't like it very much. Anyway it's not bad. A bit of plot? Two FBI agents are in trouble, and Tom saves his partner John's life. In the following days the two families were supposed to meet, but before John gets there a misterious assassin has already burned the house after having killed Tom's wife and little daughter in front of his eyes. John arrives to find the three bodies and is convinced that is all Rogue's fault, and become obsessed with him and his want of revenge.
Three years later arrives Jet Li, slaying yakuza men in a club. The rest of the plot including the finale? Coming right up. :-) We find out that he's double crossing them in order to set up a war between the chinese Triad and the Japanese Yakuza. Both Yanagawa and Chang think he's working for them, but actually he wants them all dead, and he gets his wish. They start doing a pretty good job themself killing each other, then he kills those that are still alive. First Chang and his clan, but leaves his wife and little daughter alive, and instead helps them get away safely. Then it's Yanagawa's turn. Again, he kills everyone but Yanagawa's daughter. Before killing old boss Yanagawa, Rogue reveals his true identity: he's Tom, and three years ago he killed Rogue and took his identity to seek revenge, and then he's told that he was betrayed by his friend John who was working for him. Rogue calls John setting up a meeting, and John brings a sniper along. Everything is revealed, John says he was lied to, that he was told they wanted Tom's address to beat him up, not to kill, and that then he became obsessed with killing Rogue to set things right. Well, not exactly right, but he was full of remorse and pain for the loss of his friend's life. Tom cannot forgive him, but John still saves Tom from the sniper's shot, and dies.
A cool thing is that Rogue had sent Chang's widow one antique gold horse and the message "Make a new life", and we understand she will for her daughter's sake; then he sends the same message to Yanagawa's daughter, who up to now had followed on her father's steps, but inside the cage there isn't the other horse, instead she sees her father's head.
Now that it's all over, and all the people that caused his family's death have died, Rogue just goes away, driving out of town, maybe to make a new life for himself as well. All nice and good fun, but the bit I didn't like was that it wasn't clear if he was going to live as Tom or as Rogue. I mean, he couldn't forgive John, he still wanted him dead, so that makes you think there's too much of Rogue in him now, but so what, he's going to keep killing people for money or not?? Just a little detail, otherwise I liked the film, mainly I admit because I like Jet Li a lot :-D

2007

Jet Li is Rogue/Tom

Jason Statham is John

Also, there’s Sung Kang, John Lone, Devon Aoki, Luis Guzman.