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has permeated the pop-culture atmosphere that just about everything feels classic.
The climactic Mexican standoff hits like the chorus to a song you never realized youve only heard covered.
But the English-language bits felt stilted and unnatural, and his once-healthy box-office returns had started to slip.
For better and occasionally for worse, it is a pure, unadulterated JCVD performance.
Again, Lam was at his best when testing the limits of the professionals placed in his charge.
Bring him in for a fly-by-night franchise assignment, and thats what youll get.
With each new film, he calibrated a bit more finely, learning and adjusting from the last.
Lam was always learning, moving onward, asking more of himself and of us.
