EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Wizard-8 Gary Daniels has made a number of B-grade martial arts movies that I have enjoyed. Unfortunately, this early effort with him is not among his gems. I am sure he himself is embarrassed by this movie for a number of reasons. Here, he has a haircut (or rather, lack of a haircut) that is unintentionally funny, and he (as well as many of the other actors) have looped their dialogue in the recording studio with voices that often don't match with the mouth movements and body movements of what's on screen. Movie is hastily shot, with very little on screen that you would identify with "American". As for the fights, they are nothing exciting at all. You can safely skip this one.

sveknu After the total disaster whose name was "Capital Punishment", every person with a tiny bit of sense in his/her mind should think that Gary Daniels would actually try to make a better movie this time. But no! This is nearly as bad. The only thing that's better here is the story. Although it was really bad, it still was progress from the total lack of plot in "Capital Punishment". Here, you could at least understand what was going on. Anyway, when a martial arts movie has a bad story (as they usually do), you focus on the fight scenes. There are lots and lots of them, but unfortunately they all just stink. It had been better if they had come up with ONE decent fight instead of about 15-20 extremely bad ones, but I guess the people behind this movie thought that quantity was the key.Well....it wasn't!!

dasa108 OK. If you like martial arts movies, this is the kind of movies when you only want to see kicks and punches. But sometimes, the story is important. And then, this movie fails. And fails a lot. If you are a rich men living in Hong Kong, with a hard past, and a family living in USsa. All months they receive a check from you. You are manteining them. And your brother is a kind of monkey without intelligence... only fighting with his traumas. You, looking for help, leaves your work and start fight with wild mans, and even you become hurt... Of course, this is only a part of the story. But has problems of continuity, has problems with a lot of points. The fights are fine. Gary Daniels is a bad actor, but better than Van Damme. I hope to see better films from him.

kryzstov Not a bad film considering the budget that they probably had to work with. It appears that all departments had minimal experience given the various mistakes throughout the film. I especially noticed the poor sense of lighting and camerawork displayed in the film. Another very good example of a new director that should have chosen an experienced Cameraman.