Need for Speed: Undercover was saddled with a number of crippling technical issues--a shoddy frame rate and sheepish AI being its biggest--but it was Maggie Q (Live Free or Die Hard, Mission: Impossible III) and her monotone performance as a terse, deeply disinterested FBI agent in the game's live-action cutscenes that really sunk the experience for me. It's not like I was expecting Citizen Kane here, but there's a big difference between hilariously bad and just plain boring.
I will admit that she's a good-looking lady, which, apparently, some people seem to think is more than enough for the video-game crowd. Variety reported yesterday that Ms. Q will be appearing in the upcoming King of Fighters motion picture alongside Sean Faris, Ray Park, Will Yun Lee, and David Leitch. Considering the high level of quality already established by previous fighting-game movie adaptations (Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Dead or Alive) I suppose they may have a point.
I will admit that she's a good-looking lady, which, apparently, some people seem to think is more than enough for the video-game crowd. Variety reported yesterday that Ms. Q will be appearing in the upcoming King of Fighters motion picture alongside Sean Faris, Ray Park, Will Yun Lee, and David Leitch. Considering the high level of quality already established by previous fighting-game movie adaptations (Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Dead or Alive) I suppose they may have a point.
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