in 1999, he appeared in isaac florentine's "bridge of dragons" as a "human killing machine" mercenary named warchikj alongside cary-hiroyuki tagawa, who lundgren had previously worked with in the 1991 film "showdown in little tokyo", valerie chow, gary hudson, john bennett and scott l. schwartz. he then starred in "storm catcher" alongside mystro clark and robert miano under director anthony hickox, portraying a military pilot who is falsely accused of treason in a plot to overthrow the us government. he is blackmailed into plotting an attack in which he would bomb washington with a new jet called the "storm catcher" by a renegade general (miano). "film review" dismissed the film and lundgren's performance as "more lundgren lunacy". finally he starred in hickox's next picture, "jill rips", based on a 1987 novel by scottish writer frederic lindsay. he portrays matt sorenson, a former boxer and san francisco cop who avenges the brutal death of his younger brother, michael. intent on finding his brother's killer, sorenson infiltrates the powerful inner world of politics, business intrigue and casual sex and sadomasochism. his obsession to discover the killer's identity mounts as a series of other men are found murdered in a similar fashion, and he loses all objectivity and becomes a vigilante. the dvd and video guide to 2005 said, "not very believable but, as usual, it's fun to watch dolph lundgren in action." "film review" "shuddered" at the concept of the film and remarked that lundgren "should be a long-forgotten action-star."