Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon
Max Havoc Curse of The Dragon is a straighttoDVD action film directed by Albert Pyun and Isaac Florentine on the island of Guam in 2004. Swiss actor Mickey Hardt plays Max Havoc, an exkickboxer turned sports photographer. Max has to help an art dealer and her sister, played by Joanna Krupa and Tawney Sabley, flee from a yakuza clan trying to retrieve a valuable jade dragon statue. Aimed at the European market, the film was planned to kickstart a franchise, which would have included a sequel and a syndicated television series in the United States, but these plans did not materialize. A sequel, Max Havoc Ring of Fire, was eventually shot in Canada.
The story centers around Max Havoc Mickey Hardt, an exkickboxing champion known as Mad Max, turned globetrotting sports photographer. Max quit kickboxing after accidentally killing a fellow boxer during an unlikely comeback in the ring, but still suffers from flashbacks to the fight. After a bar scuffle over a biker girl Nikki Ziering, his agent Diego Walraff sends him to Guam for a publicity photo shoot. There, Max encounters Tahsi Richard Roundtree, his former kickboxing coach, now an antiques dealer, and promises to catch up with him later. While photographing an outrigger canoe race from a jet ski, Max rescues Christy Goody Tawney Sablan, a vacationer who was about to be unwittingly run over by the canoes. In the process, he knocks over one of the canoes, earning the wrath its head rower, Moko Pyun veteran Vincent Klyn. He is also admonished by Jane Joanna Krupa, Christys sister, for his brazen driving. However, she later apologizes and agrees to a dinner date.In the meantime, Tahsi is approached by a thief Danielle Burgio, who has fled to Guam with a stolen rare jade dragon and wants to pawn it, promising to return inhours. Tahsi agrees, but does not promise not to sell it. Indeed, Jane Goody, who turns out to be a friend of his, visits his shop and buys the dragon, despite Tahsis reluctance. She later has it appraised, learning it is worth many times more than she paid for it, heightening her hopes of paying the tuition for her sisters medical degree. Later, an enforcer Arnold Chon for the yakuza group Black Dragons, the original owners of the jade dragon, appears in Tahsis shop with the thief in a headlock, demanding the figurines return. Tahsi refuses to reveal Janes identity and is killed along with the thief. ........
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