|
|
Two typical American brothers, one, Danny, is in still in high school and the other, Brad, graduated 2 or 3 years ago and has his own auto repair shop / painting business that's small scale, but he's happy with what he does.
The two brothers' personalities are different: the older brother is pretty serious and works hard at his business while the younger brother listens to heavy metal music all day and wears ripped jeans and a black leather jacket with metal studs and a drawing of a skull on the back. Despite their personality differences, the two brothers actually get along really well.
One day, in an attempt to take his tough guy image to the next level, Danny joins the "Vipers", the toughest gang in school that seems to have something sinister going on underneath the surface. As Danny gets more involved with the Vipers, he gains enough trust to meet the big boss. They take him to an abandoned warehouse or a luxurious mansion with red velvet couches, marble tables, zebra-skin rugs and black leopard statues where the big boss is sitting at a desk, but we can't see his face because it's covered in shadows. There, we find out that the vipers are only one branch of a huge crime syndicate involved in distributing drugs to high-school kids. They then ask him if he's loyal enough to be trusted with all these secrets. Danny says yes, and then they say something like "Good, because this is what we do with traitors," and they bring out a bloody guy who's tied up, throw him in front of Danny, and proceed to beat him to death.
Danny, realizing he's in over his head, tries to escape, but is quickly caught by one of the Vipers who says, "Maybe Danny boy here doesn't have the right stuff after all!." Then they punch him in the stomach and start beating him while the camera focuses on the big boss, who's laughing in satisfaction.
After a couple days, the brothers' mom calls up Brad, hysterical, saying that Danny never came back from his friends house where he said he was spending the night, and now nobody knows where he is. Brad decides to investigate by himself, and finds out through one of Danny's more straight-laced friends about the Vipers.
Brad then catches up to the Vipers one night and demands to know where his brother is, and is of course met with contempt as the vipers close in around him. Brad then displays his full black-belt karate skills, easily knocking away the various switchblades and chains he's attacked with, and makes quick work of the Vipers with his roundhouse and front kicks, sweeps, and straight punches. They all run away, except for one who Brad grabs and forces to tell where the big boss is hiding out. His girlfriend, who's been watching in the background astonished, asks where on earth Brad ever learned to fight like that.
Brad then brings her back to his garage, where there's a back room that's traditional Japanese tatami, shoji, and has a Buddhist shrine. There Brad explains to his girlfriend, Christy, about how he lived for 10 years in Japan in his youth training under a great karate master and has been secretly practicing ever since coming back. Then he starts to break down over his brother and she comforts him, then they kiss and a ballad called "All for the power of love" starts playing.
The next day, Brad puts on his action gear: t-shirt with horizontal blue stripes, tight blue jeans, white sneakers and brown members-only jacket, fixes his 80s mullet and starts out to find Danny despite the protests of Christy.
When he arrives at the big boss' hideout (which is definitely a warehouse), the doors close behind him as he enters the room, where the big boss is still sitting in the shadows behind his desk as the Vipers, bruised and bloodied from the previous fight, stand beside him, glowering angrily. Danny's there, tied up and bloodied, being held by one of them.
"Danny!" Brad shouts.
"Brad!! Get outta here!" Danny pleads.
"I've been expecting you, Brad. And as such I've prepared a little entertainment," the big boss says as 9 or 10 ninjas jump out from the shadows or drop down from above.
Brad skillfully avoids the Chinese stars, nunchucks, and katanas and knocks all the ninjas (who are sure to attack him one at a time) out with his skillful karate. The vipers look at each other and flee, leaving only Brad and the big boss. The big boss then pulls Danny beside him and puts a gun to his head.
"Very impressive, but it seems I have the last laugh!" he says.
Brad, trying to figure out what to do, looks above the boss' head, where there's a hook attached to a chain, which is in turn hooked on to a beam next to where Brad is standing. As the big boss is laughing, Brad kicks the chain, dropping the hook as the camera switches to the hook's point of view, showing the big boss' panicked face as the cigar drops from his mouth. Danny jumps out of the way just in time just as the hook drops on the boss' head, killing him. The two brothers then embrace.
In the final scene we find Brad and Danny working together on a car (or painting job). Danny's appearance has changed and he's wearing the same tank top and jeans that his brother's wearing. The straight-laced friend from before comes up with Danny's old jacket and says "Hey Danny, I found this near the school. Thought you might want it back," and tosses the jacket to him. Danny looks at it, then tosses it back and says "No way, man. I'd rather wear this," as he puts on a members only jacket just like his brother's. Then the two brothers high-five each other saying "YEAH!" as the shot freezes and the credits start rolling while a hard rock song called "Fighting power of the tiger" starts playing.