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One show-stopping technique he brings on is a kind of hybrid axe and tornado kick combo where he swings his entire body horizontal to strike from above. He has clearly been influenced by Tony Jaa (not surprising, considering that he fought Tony in “Tom Yum Goong”) and blends a lot Muay Thai-style knee and elbow strikes with wushu aerial maneuvers. With his vast multi-disciplined background, Johnny Nguyen is by far the most airborne of the three leads and brings some remarkable versatility to the action sequences. In its first ten minutes, “The Rebel” sets itself up to be Vietnam’s answer to “Ong Bak” – no wires, no CGI, and plenty of those “ooooohhh” moments whenever someone takes a particularly painful looking hit and there are many of those! You don’t need the stunt men of the film to tell you that quite a few of these blows really are landing and don’t appear to be pulled back all that much either. Thuy dodges and returns a powerful roundhouse kick Thuy inflicts some Vovinam power on the rebellion Sy eventually uncovers Thuy’s escape and her alliance with Cuong, but the two manage to fight him off and head for Thuy’s village in the South to unite with the other rebels. Thuy later manages to escape, and finds an unlikely ally in Cuong, who has been forced to watch his ailing father succumb to opium addiction and has grown weary from the never-ending conflict in his homeland.
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Following a hit on a local government official, Cuong and Sy successfully capture Vo Than Thuy, the daughter of the leader of the resistance, but her iron will holds fast in the face of Sy’s efforts to pry her father’s whereabouts from her. Vietnamese agents Le Van Cuong and his superior Sy have been tasked with putting a stop to the rebellion against the French occupation of Vietnam, which has grown increasingly troublesome for the foreign occupiers. The role of the villain falls to former “21 Jump Street” star Dustin Nguyen (no relation to Johnny) in the role of Sy, Cuong’s fellow agent for the French occupation who proves to be quite literally an impenetrable enemy for our two heroes. For being paired up with a veteran martial artist and stunt performer like Johnny, Veronica really rises to the challenge of the handling the action sequences of the film despite being a novice to martial arts. His willingness to cooperate with the foreign occupiers is put to the test by Vo Than Thuy, the daughter of the rebellion’s leader played by Veronica Ngo. In addition to his duties as producer, co-writer and action director, veteran stunt man Johnny Tri Nguyen steps into his first lead as Le Van Cuong, a Vietnamese operative tasked with helping to quell the nation’s rebellion against the French occupation.
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Although lacking in any kind of comic relief and even a little unnecessarily somber in parts, “The Rebel” is a well-made historical drama that, in one fell swoop introduces the world to Vovinam, the national martial art of Vietnam provides a spectacular showcase for the talents of its three leads, and puts Vietnam on the martial arts movie map! Trailer If someone asks you what the first movie from Vietnam you ever saw was, the answer for many of us in the English-speaking world would be “The Rebel”.