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DEA agent Mike Ryan, played by Daniels is motivated by other activities and would prefer to go rock climbing with his special ops partner, John Grogan Craven. But instead, he gets roped into hunting down a group of Asian drug lords led by the superbly menacing Victor Chow played by Tagawa. Similar to the 1991 movie, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Tagawa and his henchmen plan on launching a brand new and powerful drug into the black market. When Mike Ryan’s friend is murdered by Cheng, there is something off about the entire process. As he tries to carry out revenge, he is left with an ethical dilemma. Who can he trust? There is Jade, Nickson, and the already gorgeous Detective Fong, Cheung. While starting the mission, Mike Ryan realizes that he has to do it himself. He has to go rogue and listen to his instincts. More importantly, he has to trust his martial arts skills on his mission to locate and capture Victor Chow.
In the movie White Tiger, Gary Daniels takes on the role of a likable character, while Tagawa portrays a villain. This movie has its shortcomings in terms of plot but makes up for it with its breathtaking fight scene and fast pacing. The story revolves around Bey Logan, who was also behind the superb releases from Dragon Dynasty label, so we can expect world class fights and stunts. Ironically, all this is underpinned with either modern day techno or 90s grunge. While the movie, or to be more specific, the setting is in Seattle, it was actually filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and the band “Pull” should feel ashamed. Graeme Coleman, during the 90s tried to set the martial arts movie into a new decade and take away the electronics, and while he did have good intentions, the execution fell short.
But the overall feel is that the filmmakers were trying to give a fresh twist to the direct-to-video action film by incorporating the above mentioned music, streamlined storytelling, and professionally crafted style to it. They are not using these items as stand ins for the action goods per, as is so common today. Gary Daniels is always great and this case is no different. In his non-action scenes he is quite charming, and in the action department he constantly seems to be trying out new things, or rather he is always pushing himself. Check some of his stellar takedowns. Tagawa and a few others are good, but White Tiger is a clear No Daniels No Movie case. He seems to carry the film as if it is no effort to him.
For an DTV beat ‘em up that is lacking in intellectual challenging but is improved than the normal fare, White Tiger will fit the bill perfectly.
His birthday is today so it seems fitting to revisit his flick White Tiger which tells the tale of a DEA agent (Daniels) trained in martial arts with a vengeance against a gang leader (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) who murdered his partner (Matt Craven).
White Tiger has to be one of my favorite Gary Daniels movies since Tagawa is a superb villain, and Chow is perhaps one of his best roles as he wanders off screen exploding. He is absolutely bonkers and willing to do everything it takes to kill anyone in his way.
Everything goes sideways when Mike Ryan, Daniels, and his partner John, Matt Craven, entered to thwart Chow. Unfortunately, John is instantly killed and in turn, Mike goes off the rails for revenge.
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