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2003 American action moving picture directed past Andrzej Bartkowiak

Cradle 2 the Grave
Theatrical release poster
Directed past	Andrzej Bartkowiak
Screenplay by	John O'Brien Channing Gibson
Story by	John O'Brien
Produced by	Joel Silvery
Starring	Jet Li DMX Anthony Anderson Kelly Hu Tom Arnold Marker Dacascos Gabrielle Union
Cinematography	Daryn Okada
Edited by	Derek Brechin
Music by	John Frizzell Damon "Grease" Blackman
Production visitor	Silver Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	February 28, 2003 (2003-02-28)
Running fourth dimension	101 minutes
Country	United states
Languages	English Mandarin Korean
Budget	$25 million
Box role	$56 million

Cradle 2 the Grave is a 2003 American action moving-picture show directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak and starring Jet Li and DMX. The motion picture was released in the United States on February 28, 2003.

Plot [edit]

Anthony Fait and his crew of thieves attempts to steal diamonds for a Frenchman named Christophe, who serves every bit the middleman for a mysterious employer. When Fait contacts Christophe, a Taiwanese intelligence agent named Su intercepts the conversation and attempts to place the criminals.

While the crew gathers up equally many diamonds as they can, including a bag of black diamonds, Agent Su calls Fait and demands that he and his crew leave the diamonds in the vault, warning him that the police are on the way. Even so, Fait ignores this alarm, and the criminals attempt a daring escape past a SWAT team blockade. While Fait, and his coiffure members Daria and Tommy, all manage to escape, Agent Su captures Miles and recovers Miles' share of the diamonds. Su is disappointed to find that Miles does non accept the black diamonds though. Meanwhile, Fait asks his friend Archie to appraise the black diamonds he had stolen. Arriving at the San Francisco International Airport, Christophe's mysterious employer, Ling, is informed by his assistant Sona, that Christophe has been attacked and that Fait and his gang have taken the blackness diamonds.

Later that night, Fait runs into Su. During this inadvertent meeting, Fait receives a phone phone call from Ling, who demands that Fait paw over the blackness diamonds. Fait refuses and is subsequently attacked past two of Ling's henchman. With Su'south help, he defeats them and escapes. After the fight, Archie tells Fait that some gangsters came to his workshop and demanded the black diamonds besides. After some hesitation, Archie admits that he gave the stones to the gangsters to spare his own life. Fait also receives some other phone call from Ling, who has kidnapped Fait'southward girl, Vanessa, to persuade Fait to give up the diamonds. Now with a common enemy, Fait and Su team up to recover the diamonds from the gangsters and rescue Vanessa from Ling.

Fait visits jailed crime lord "Bound" Chambers, most probable the employer of the gangsters who had robbed Archie. When Chambers refuses to cooperate, Fait goes to Chambers' nighttime club, hoping to discover the stones somewhere in his office. The plan goes amiss, and Fait and the gang accept to leave empty-handed. Meanwhile, Su and Archie become to an underground club to attempt to find the gangsters who attacked Archie. Because the club does not allow guests, Su is forced to enter as a fighter in the order'southward fighting band. During Su'southward fight, Archie sees the human being they are looking for, recognizing the human'southward band. Through this informant, they learn that the diamonds are hidden in the chimera bath in Bedroom's office. When they return to the nightclub to recollect the diamonds, they find that Ling's men have already taken the stones. Meanwhile, while locked in a van, the leap and gagged Vanessa frees herself, and finds a cell phone to telephone call her male parent. Merely before the phone's battery runs out, Vanessa gives some clues as to her location. With these clues, the gang surmises that Vanessa is existence held in an airport hangar.

Realizing that Ling will desire to auction off the stones, which are actually weapons of mass destruction, the grouping searches flight schedules to find an airport where a big number of private flights will be landing that night. Finding the correct airport, the group races to the hangar, where Ling's auction is already starting. A fight ensues, and Fait and his crew take out members of Ling's team, while Su battles Ling in a one on one fight. Eventually, Vanessa is rescued and Ling is killed after Su forces him to swallow a sheathing of synthetic plutonium and and so breaks the sheathing lodged in his neck. When the law go far, Fait promises to finish his criminal career in order to lead a prophylactic and happy life with Vanessa.

Cast [edit]

Jet Li as Su Duncan
Earl Simmons equally Anthony Fait
Gabrielle Wedlock as Daria
Mark Dacascos as Ling
Kelly Hu as Sona
Melvin Smalls as Miles
Anthony Anderson as Tommy
Tom Arnold as Archie
Paige Hurd every bit Vanessa Fait
Paolo Seganti equally Christophe
Michael Jace as Odion
Ron Yuan as Laser Tech
Chi McBride equally "Jump" Chambers
Sean Cory every bit Willy "Chickens"
Lester Speight every bit Bedroom'due south Lodge Doorman
Randy Couture as Fight Club Fighter #8
Martin Klebba as Fight Gild Announcer
Woon Young Park as Bald Enforcer
Johnny Trí Nguyễn as Ling's Hitman #i
Marcus Young every bit Ling'due south Hitman #2
Doug Spearman equally African Arms Dealer
Hani Naimi equally Egyptian Artillery Dealer
Julie du Page as French Arms Dealer
Hari Dhillon as Pakistani Arms Dealer
Peter J. Lucas every bit Russian Arms Dealer
Tito Ortiz equally Cage Fighter
Héctor Echavarría as Cage Fighter
Chuck Liddell as Cage Fighter
Arnold Chon as Cage Fighter
Garrett Warren as Cage Fighter
Larry Joshua as Cop In Vault
William L. Johnson every bit Black Diamond Carrier Armored Commuter (uncredited)
Kevin Grevioux as Prison Baby-sit (uncredited)
Nikki Martin as Band Girl #one (uncredited)
Ungenita Prevost every bit Band Daughter #2 (uncredited)
Natasha Yi as Social club Daughter (uncredited)

Daniel Dae Kim also appears, consult every bit the Visiting Expert. The moving-picture show reunites actors Jet Li, Earl Simmons and Anthony Anderson with Polish film director Andrzej Bartkowiak, who they outset worked together in the 2000 film Romeo Must Dice, and aslope Melvin Smalls and Tom Arnold in the 2001 film Exit Wounds.

Reception [edit]

The movie received mixed reviews. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 26% blessing rating from critics, based on 125 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "Dumb and past-the-numbers, merely serviceable."^[1] Metacritic gives the film a rating of 36 out of 100, based on 26 reviews.^[two]

Box office [edit]

The flick debuted at number one at the North American box role, grossing $xvi,521,468 in its opening weekend.^[3] ^[4] All the same, this accounted for a hefty 47.vi% of its full $34,712,347 gross. The film's worldwide gross stands at $56,489,558, making the moving-picture show a pocket-sized success.

Soundtrack [edit]

Year	Album	Superlative nautical chart positions		Certifications
Year	Album	U.S.	U.S. R&B	Certifications
2003	Cradle 2 the Grave Released: February 18, 2003 Label: Def Jam	6	3	RIAA: Gilded^[5] MC: Gold

References [edit]

^ "Cradle ii the Grave (2003)". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved April 8, 2021.
^ "Cradle 2 the Grave Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved April 8, 2021.
^ "No. 1: Hip-hop martial arts thriller "Cradle 2 the Grave..." Chicago Tribune. March three, 2003. Retrieved September ten, 2010.
^ Karger, Dave (March 3, 2003). "Cradle Rocks". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved December fifteen, 2010.
^ "RIAA – Searchable Database: Drag-On". Recording Manufacture Association of America. Retrieved April 28, 2012.