Cradle 2 the Grave could have been subtitled Return of Jet Li. This is the third flick in producer Joel Silver and director Andrzej Bartkowiak’s hip hop-meets-martial arts-chop-chop-mob-wars trilogy.

Not only is the Jet Li action vehicle Cradle 2 the Grave underrated, but it's also got a wildly stacked cast. Producer Joel Silver made his name on hits like the Lethal Weapon or Die Hard movies, but ...

His reps put out a statement after the news of his passing became public. “We are deeply saddened to announce today that our loved one, DMX, birth name of Earl Simmons, passed away at 50-years-old at ...

More bread and circuses from Joel Silver, the prolific producer of high-end thrillers like “The Matrix” and low-end junk like “Swordfish.” Into the latter category toss “Cradle 2 the Grave,” a noisy, ...

When his daughter is kidnapped and held in exchange for priceless diamonds, the leader of a crew of highly skilled urban thieves (DMX) forges an unlikely alliance with a Taiwanese Intelligence officer ...

On too many soundtracks, an impressive array of artists invariably will sound like bad, hollow versions of themselves, producing formulaic material that likely had previously been deemed unworthy of ...

The Matrix aside, there's something despairingly interchangeable about the rickety action vehicles Joel Silver has produced in the past few years. Cradle 2 The Grave is technically a new Jet Li/DMX ...

Give any hack screenwriter 10 minutes, a martini and a bar napkin and he can probably write a serviceable outline for a movie like "Cradle 2 the Grave." A grab-bag of kung-fu cliches, cardboard ...

Aside from his commanding presence and physique, what makes rapper DMX a credible action-movie star is attitude. As an actor, he's merely adequate -- something Steven Seagal will never be -- but his ...

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