Black Panther, a cold-blooded killer, has managed to allude the cops for his whole unsavory career but a special team has been formed to ensure the criminal is brought to justice. The fabulous fivesome get to work, donning leather jackets and wandering around some sleazy locations looking for information. Black Panther learns the special unit is closing in and decides his best course of action is to murder the unit head’s wife and children. Inspector Jiu is called by his wife (forced at gunpoint) and comes home in time to see his family bite it. He and his squad manage to take out most of the baddies and chase Black Panther into a nearby temple. Cornered, Black Panther elects to throw himself off the temple instead of giving Jiu the satisfaction of bringing him down himself. Not one to be denied his vengeance, he has his partner set him up with a mystic master to send him to Hell. He has seven days to track the bastard down if he wants to get back to this plane of existence but there’s plenty of evil things waiting on the other side to complicate his journey. He makes it through some zombies, ghost warriors and Dracula(?) then finds the entrance to the afterlife is more like Disneyworld than anything else. A bribe gets him through and he eventually crosses paths with one of Black Panther’s victims... a lovely young lady whose case he was working on before everything went to shit. As it goes, the girl is Black Panther’s illegitimate daughter and there’s a chance he may be able to rescue her as she’s not completely dead yet. Conveniently, she’s able to clue Jiu in on the whereabouts of her father. Inconveniently, he is now serving the super powerful Ghost King and his ninjas in Hell’s Army. He teams up with one of Hell’s security officers, says a goodbye to his family as they head to Heaven and brings the fight to the Ghost King himself. Surprisingly, the more grounded opening act is better the the fantasy-themed back portion. It almost seems to lose focus as it jumps into the afterlife. It’s still pretty fun, it just feels like too many ideas weren’t given enough room to breathe.
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