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Directed by | Philip G. Atwell |
Written by | Lee Anthony Smith Gregory J. Bradley |
Produced by | Steve Chasman Christopher Petzel Jim Thompson |
Starring | Jet Li Jason Statham John Lone Devon Aoki Luis Guzmán Saul Rubinek Ryo Ishibashi Sung Kang Mathew St. Patrick Nadine Velazquez |
Cinematography | Pierre Morel |
Edited by | Scott Richter |
Music by | Brian Tyler |
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Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Cantonese Japanese Mandarin |
Budget | $25 million[1] |
Box office | $40.7 million[1] |
War is a 2007 American action film directed by Philip G. Atwell in his directorial debut and featuring stage combat choreographed by Corey Yuen. The film stars Jet Li and Jason Statham. The film was released in the United States on August 24, 2007. War features the second collaboration between Jet Li and Jason Statham, reuniting them for the first time since 2001 film The One. Jason Statham plays an FBI agent determined to take down a mysterious assassin known as Rogue (played by Jet Li), after his partner is murdered.
War's working title was Rogue, it was changed to avoid conflict with another film with the same name. It was re-titled as Rogue Assassin in New Zealand,[2] Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, Australia, the Philippines and several European countries.