Blu-ray Review – Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects

For their final collaboration, actor Charles Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson (who passed away in 2002) head into the darkness with 1989's "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects," transporting their recipe for smashmouth filmmaking to the world of sexual exploitation. It's a difficult subject matter to explore with any type of lightness, but the pair give the topic a B-movie shakedown, delivering a strangely insensitive take on the death of innocence that favors scowling and xenophobia from the star, who takes on the role of a determined cop with the same lukewarm passion he brings to every role. As well-intentioned as "Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects" tries to be, it's missing a few great ideas and patience to truly understand the scourge of human trafficking, treating the topic with minimal interest in collateral damage. There's plenty of Bronson being irritable, smacking around baddies and sassing superiors, but what the picture needs is respect for the crime, not more breakaway glass. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com