Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

LeonLouisRicci In the Bubble of DTV Action Movies Director Isaac Florentine and Kick-Ass Specialist Scott Adkins are Bonafide Stars. This Cheapie chips away at every Trope available to the makers of this sort of Stuff. The most Impressive thing in this thing is the way the Camera Lingers on the Martial Arts for the Viewer to be Awed and made aware that these Guys have Skills. Compare that to its Big Budget Betters and the Cheat of Shaky Cameras and Quick Cuts that leave the Audience with Incomprehensible Scenes that contain absolutely nothing in the "What is Actually Happening?" Department.Here stands an Appreciation for the Skill Involved and a Respect for the Fans delivering what They Paid for. Sure, the Story is Thin and the Director makes some rather Questionable Decisions that Detract from the Film.First, whose Brain-Dead Decision decided to include Actual Scenes from the Movie in the OPENING CREDITS. Imagine the Production Meeting (if there ever was such a thing) and someone said..."You know what would be Really-Cool...Let's take some of the Scenes in the Movie and show them in the Credits before they actually occur". Sheesh!Sergio Leone notwithstanding, that rarely is anything but Artistic. It's just Plain Bad Filmmaking. How about the lengthy Scene in the Car when Characters are Introduced with Nicknames on Screen. Just Plain Dumb and Unforgivable unless You are Tarantino. This Guy is no Leone or Tarantino. The Ending is a Homage it seems with a Protracted and Embarrassing contrived Suspense Builder that does nothing but draw attention to its "Hipness", or lack thereof.Overall, despite its Corny Conceits and Endless Bullet Bouncing, the Martial Arts Scenes make it Worth a Watch.

BratE9000 I'll start by saying that my 6 rating is not for anything lackluster in this movie. I just don't dole out high ratings for anything that isn't stellar, and action movies such as this rarely have all the pieces in place that would leave a person (me) emotionally blown away. An 8 would have me thinking about it for days and wanting to talk about it with everyone I know. A 9 would put me on my knees and deprive of me of sleep as it invaded my dreams. But this movie had me engaged and entertained from beginning to end. The opening is directed finely and trapped me right in. The rest isn't quite as artistic, but who cares, its action action action.This movie is precisely what you would expect and is a cut above your average action movie, on par with Jason Stratham films and comparable to his best.It is non-stop action and the hero is pretty good. As some others have commented, the acting is questionable, but I say it is good enough and my disbelief was thoroughly suspended throughout the movie (except maybe once for a second). Truth be told, there isn't time to think about it because the action is non stop. The Jujitsu, or whatever they use in the hand-to-hand fight scenes is pretty darn cool. The fight choreographers and stunt men put on a wicked show! Several times, I was thinking, "wow, that was a cool sequence." Mind you I watch MMA, not WWF or whatever they are calling All-Star Wrestling these days (and not to discredit myself, but I have been impressed by sequences on WWF where I have to wonder how many hours they practiced together to pull those moves off.) (Mickey Rourke - that was a 7 in my book, but not because of the "fighting" - never mind) Sorry for the multi-level digression. Yes, the fights are great. Dare I say Vikings and Game of Thrones might like these guys on their team.On the gun nerd front, I was elated that not everyone walked around holding their gun with their finger on the trigger (one of the sacred three gun safety rules). You see, there is plenty of time to put your finger on the trigger when the target is in sight. Next time watch where the soldiers have their fingers on CNN coverage (not that I watch that channel). Triple thumbs up on that. I should change my rating to 7 just because of that. On the other hand, our hero expends ammo unwisely. He is just blasting away. More of a pro would not pop off a round without a reasonable chance of connecting.I didn't hate the score like some others did. It wasn't Mozart or Eric Clapton (I still can't believe he said Prince was better than he), but I thought appropriate and not in any way distracting.If you like Jason Stratham movies, you will like this like I did.

John Monne The only reason I give it a 3 is because there are moments things are acceptable. Those are the moment the camera work and angles are on par and the scenery and colors are actually quite nice! Chunks of the fighting action can even be called decent as well.What ruins a movie for me is when things that shouldn't cost additional (or much more) budget money to make it much better. Things such bad scripting in which things are added in (at cost!!) that just puts down any form of IQ higher then 85.. When a movie starts zooming in on the faces with a 'shaky' effect added, it is time to start the 'i give this 2 minutes to get better' timer. Whom ever invented the notion that 'shaky' cam effect adds to a shot should actually be SHOT and so should the people who keep it going.Then you get (again at cost!) a completely USELESS intro of the Mexican cartel driving in three cars. I think like 8 people are being introduced, by very original nicknames i must add (sigh), as if we are about to watch a Quintin Tarantino master piece in which we need to get to know the characters...while in fact by the time you see the fourth face and name you already forgot about the previous ones.Bad scripting, dumb story, bad framing, bad directing and producing.I will stop my review here as it simply is not worth more effort. This is simply yet another movie of SO MANY nowadays that is just ruined by poor management of resources and by assuming the general population has the development of a 12 year old and the IQ of 85 or lower. They had the budget, they had decent actors, they had GORGEOUS scenery and they had GREAT equipment / camera / sound. You must simply suck at what you do to end up with a production such as this.

mikevonbach This is rare for me To see an Actors name on the Title and say This is going to be a bad film . But with Scott Adkins that's the way it is Really he must know someone very big to keep putting this guy in films. He has not had one big winner yet . HERCULES 3D was a total flop . I just dint buy this guy in movies Cheap video games are better choreographed than this movie. Unless you are 10 years old, don't even bother. I had to force myself to finish it. I'm racking my brain trying to come up with the minimum of 10 lines of text required for this review and all that I can think of is to beg you not to waste your time. Even the worse Steven Seagal movie ranks better. The plot is juvenile and the acting is as bad as in a low production, two o'clock in the morning SyFy Chanel flick. And the whistling at key action scenes is just annoying. Thumbs down all the way. If this is the kind of roles that Adkins is being cast on, I can only advise him to fire his agent.