Ernie Reyes Jr.

Beck (Dwayne Johnson) is a "retrieval expert", a bounty hunter who collects debts for a man named Billy Walker (William Lucking). He is dispatched to a nightclub to retrieve a championship ring from a football player, and after doing so is assaulted by one of Walker's other collectors. Angry, he confronts Walker and tells him that he wants out of the business. Walker talks him into one last bounty - retrieve Walker's son Travis (Seann William Scott) from a small mining town in Brazil and Walker will give him enough money to open his own restaurant. Beck accepts and leaves for Brazil. When Beck arrives in the town of El Dorado he meets with the man running the mining operation, Cornelius Hatcher (Christopher Walken). Hatcher gives Beck his blessing to grab Travis, but reneges when he finds out that Travis has discovered a missing golden artifact called "El Gato De Diablo". Beck confronts Hatcher and his men in the local bar and leaves with Travis. On the way back to the airfield, Travis forces their Jeep off the road and into the jungle. There he tries to escape but is re-captured by Beck. After an unfortunate encounter with some local monkeys, the two find themselves in the camp of the local resistance movement. At the resistance encampment, Travis convinces the rebels that Beck works for Hatcher and was sent to kill them all. After a prolonged fight, Beck gains the upper hand before the rebel leader Mariana (Rosario Dawson) intervenes. She wants Travis, as the Gato can be used to ensure the locals can free themselves from Hatcher. Hatcher suddenly attacks the camp, killing many rebels. Beck, Travis, and Mariana escape the camp and Beck makes Mariana a deal: she helps him get Travis to the airfield in exchange for the Gato. After some searching, Travis leads them to a cave behind a waterfall where the Gato is located. They retrieve it and begin the journey back. On the way back, Mariana chastises Travis for wanting to sell the artifact, but Travis argues that he actually did want to give it to a museum. Mariana gives the two men Konlobos, a toxic fruit that temporarily paralyzes the eater. As she tells Beck which direction the airfield is, she leaves them with the fire to keep the animals away. After waking up able to move, Beck hauls Travis to the airfield. The local pilot, Declan (Ewen Bremner), tells Beck that Mariana was captured earlier by Hatcher and will probably be killed. Travis pleads with Beck to help, and the two head into town to rescue her. Using a cow stampede for cover, the two begin their assault on Hatcher's goons. Travis becomes trapped by gunfire in a bus, and Beck saves him before the bus explodes. Hatcher tells his brother to take Mariana and the Gato and flee, but they are stopped by Travis. Hatcher confronts Beck, who offers him the chance to leave town, which Hatcher initially refuses. After he is shot by the townspeople, Hatcher agrees to leave town, but eventually dies from his gunshot wounds. Travis gives the Gato to Mariana before leaving with Beck, who tells him that despite all they've been through he must still return Travis to the United States. Travis is delivered to his dad who begins to verbally and physically abuse him. Beck asks to celebrate with them and gives Walker and his men Konlobos. As they are paralyzed, Beck removes the cuffs from Travis and the duo leave together, with Travis continuing to jokingly annoy Beck.

In New York City, young martial artist Bruce "Leroy" Green (Taimak) trains with his teacher, who shoots arrows at him. When Leroy catches a blue arrow in midair, the teacher says that the student has successfully completed his training and is now ready to go out into the world. Leroy disagrees because he has not yet achieved "the Glow"; which is when a warrior's body glows because he has become the best fighter in the world. The teacher gives Leroy a gold medallion and tells him to seek out Master Sum Dum Goy, who will help him achieve "the Glow." Sum Dum Goy will provide training in exchange for the medallion. Later, Leroy watches a film by his idol, Bruce Lee, but a rival marital artist, Sho'nuff (Julius J. Carry III), known as the "Shogun of Harlem", comes to the theater looking for a fight. Sho'nuff believes Leroy is his only competitor for supremacy and wants to fight one-on-one, but Leroy does not believe in fighting unless it is necessary. When Leroy ignores Sho'nuff's challenge, audience members attack Sho'nuff, but he beats them as Leroy sneaks out the emergency exit. Sho'nuff vows to destroy Leroy. Meanwhile, Eddie Arkadian (Chris Murney), a successful video game producer, wants to get into the music business by managing singer Angela Viracco (Faith Prince), and tries to get her video on the popular music show, "7th Heaven." However, the show's host and VJ, Laura Charles (Vanity), is picky about the music she plays. Arkadian sends henchmen to kidnap Laura, so he can force her to watch Angela's video. As Laura leaves the studio and steps into her limousine, Leroy walks by. Just then, Laura realizes her driver is an impostor and attempts to escape. As Arkadian's men overpower Laura, Leroy saves her. After the fight, Leroy flags down a taxicab for Laura, then leaves before she can get his name. Laura finds Leroy's gold medallion on the ground and takes it with her. Arkadian's men return, claiming that Laura's bodyguards attacked them. Later, Leroy retreats to the scene, looking for his medallion. The next day, Leroy teaches a marital arts class, where he tells his students not to fight unless necessary. Just then, Sho'nuff disrupts the class with his gang, demanding Leroy to kiss his feet and declare him "the Master." When Leroy refuses, Sho'nuff's men threaten to harm Leroy's best friend, Johnny Yu (Glen Eaton). As Leroy kneels, Sho'nuff kicks him, proclaiming they will battle one day soon. The next day, Leroy has breakfast with his family, including his younger brother, Richie (Leo O'Brien), who has a crush on Laura Charles. Richie plans on winning the "7th Heaven" dance contest because the prize is a date with the hostess. When a commercial for the show appears on the television, Leroy recognizes Laura. He assumes she has his medallion, and begs Richie to take him to the television studio. Richie believes Leroy is also infatuated with Laura, and teases his brother about his sexual inexperience. However, Richie reluctantly agrees to escort Leroy, but asks him to conceal the fact that they are brothers. Upon arriving at the studio, Richie leaves Leroy alone at the back entrance while he seeks out a secret entryway. There, Leroy witnesses one of Arkadian's henchmen, "Rock," (Mike Starr) forcing Laura into a van. While driving away, Rock accidentally drops a folder labeled "Eddie Arkadian Productions." Later, at Arkadian's studio, Laura is forced to watch Angela's video, and ordered to promote the singer on her show. When Laura refuses, Arkadian's men attack, but Leroy comes to the rescue. Arkadian vows revenge against Leroy, who then brings Laura back to her apartment, introduces himself, and asks for his medallion. Laura returns the item and attempts to flirt with Leroy, but he leaves. The next day, Leroy heads to Chinatown to track down Master Sum Dum Goy, which turns out to be a fortune cookie factory. Outside, he runs into brothers Hu, Lu, and Du Yi, who refuse Leroy entry. Meanwhile in Harlem, Sho'nuff and his men arrive at Leroy's family-owned restaurant, "Daddy Green's Pizza." When Leroy's parents refuse to divulge their son's location, Sho'nuff destroys the restaurant. Moments later, Leroy returns and Richie calls him a coward for not fighting Sho'nuff, prompting Leroy to train harder. One day, Laura shows up at Leroy's studio, asking him to be her bodyguard. Leroy declines, claiming that he must continue training to become "the Master." Back at Arkadian's studio, fighters train to get revenge against Leroy. Angela laments that they will never convince Laura to play her music, and when Arkadian promises to "get rid of" Leroy, she quits. The next day, Arkadian offers Sho'nuff money to fight Leroy, but Sho'nuff agrees to fight for free as long as Arkadian sets a trap. Meanwhile, Leroy returns to Laura's apartment and apologizes. On the way to her studio, Leroy asks her how to seduce a woman, and she offers herself as a teacher. At the studio, Laura plays Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury on the stage's video screen, thrilling Leroy. Moments later, Richie sneaks into the studio, finds Laura and Leroy kissing, and storms away. When Leroy sees a scene in which Bruce Lee disguises himself to get into the villain's lair, he abruptly leaves and Richie returns inside. There, Arkadian kidnaps both Laura and Richie. Back at the Sum Dum Goy factory, Leroy pretends to be a pizza delivery man, gets inside, and demands to see its owner, but the brothers confess to making up the person, "Sum Dum Goy," to sell cookies. When Leroy later confronts his teacher about the lie, he learns that the mastery he is looking for already resides within himself. Meanwhile, Angela tells Johnny about Arkadian's plan to kill Leroy, and Johnny later tells his friend. Leroy gathers his weapons and prepares to fight. When Johnny insists on coming with him, Leroy locks him in a closet, but one of the younger students lets him out. When Leroy walks into his studio, Arkadian's fighters attack, but Johnny and Leroy's other students arrive to join in the fight and even the odds. During the battle, Arkadian and Rock take Laura to another location, and Leroy follows. Richie breaks free of his confinement and follows. In an abandoned building, Sho'nuff finally battles Leroy and gets the upper hand, dunking Leroy's head into a vat of water and demanding that Leroy proclaim him "the Master." While underwater, Leroy realizes his own mastery, and his body glows. Leroy breaks free and defeats Sho'nuff. Unhappy with the outcome, Arkadian shoots Leroy, but Leroy catches the bullet with his teeth. Leroy ties up Arkadian and leaves him to be arrested by the police. Later that evening, Laura tapes her television show, and Leroy arrives with flowers. As they kiss, Richie proudly announces that Leroy is both his brother and "the Master."

The fearless warrior Red Sonja sets out to avenge her family's murder and rid her kingdom from the tyrannical rule of evil Queen Gedren. The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She attacks and kills the keepers of a powerful talisman just before it is destroyed. Gedren then uses the power of the talisman in her raid of the city Hablac. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren. The talisman's master Kalidor follows to protect her. Of course they fall in love - however Red Sonja's power bases on the oath to never give herself to any man... —Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> After her family is murdered a young woman named Red Sonja becomes a master of the sword and seeks revenge on the evil queen responsible for the mayhem that has befallen her. Also, it seems the queen has stolen a powerful, carefully guarded, glowing orb right before it was meant to be destroyed, one that has powers of its' own, allowing for the possessor to control elemental forces and call down storms and earthquakes, if they so wish. Kalidor, one of the individuals in place to oversee the destruction of the orb, joins forces with Red Sonja, as their paths may differ, but they ultimately lead to the same place. An impudent, young prince named Tarn and his guard/manservant Falkon, whose kingdom was unceremoniously wiped out by Gerden as a test for her newfound powers, soon joins them. —Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}