Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

mkaide This feels like a collage movie. There are so many scenes that seem to be drawn from other movies, it makes it impossible to get immersed in the 'story'(such as there is one). The effect is jarring, like experiencing a sequence of superficial deja vus that bring to mind the superior films they were channeling. Particularly notable is Peter Weller's horribly camp cartoon villain which stood out as a very poor impersonation of Christopher Walken's Vincenzo Coccotti (from True Romance).Overall, a really poorly written film. Even after an hour and a half, you don't feel as though you've come away with an understanding of any of the characters, including, problematically with the protagonist,Hong (played by Le) who basically spends the duration of the movie in an ambiguous pursuit for redemption, acting out vaguely motivated duties for the pleasure of his mentor Tiano (Van Damme). Hong clearly shouldn't be the brains of any operation because the culminating tone of 90 minutes of his machinations is akin to walking out of room filled with your significant others trumpeting an especially tempestuous fart. Having said that, Cung Le wasn't bad, struck me as an interesting presence deserving to be in a better movie, reminding me of a more youthful Bolo Yeung.As for Van Damme, it seems that they only had him for afternoon or so. He's just basically there to phone in the role of a generic fight coach/zen master. In any case, its always good to see that guy, though not at the cost of watching this movie again.One to miss.

sydewynder033 Just plain god awful, Im a big JCVD fan and this was very misleading as he did nothing to add anything to this film. Story was plain stupid, the scenes were confusing and murky, Wasted an hour and half of my life watching this, would have turned it off halfway thru but kept thinking it would get better. NOPE!!!! The acting was stilted, the lines were cheesy, it was like a 7th grade attempt at a homemade video for drama club. The music score was also nothing but rap crap, not even good rap, like there is such a thing , but this was bad!!!! I can only say this, JCVD, see my boy Stallone, he can show you how to make a comeback. I will admit the main Character, Cung Le is pretty decent martial arts actor, just needs better writers and producers my friend.

J D This film is entertaining.The bias we hold coming into a film will always steer our opinions of it. Mine was the foregone conclusion this would be boring and low budget and I was wrong! Well, I was wrong about boring.Most people on here seem to rip the story line and the main actor's demeanor but I don't watch fight films for character development. Does anyone really do that? The fight scenes are pretty cool and at times sweet. I enjoyed the use of camera angles throughout the film and wasn't ever bored.In the end it was entertaining and that is what I look for with fight films.

Bene Cumb The director of two newer Universal Soldier movies, John Hyams, has apparently wanted to move onto the martial arts level with similar elements and ideas. Unfortunately, the screenwriter Tim Tori is not up to scratch, thus the outcome is complex mix of gang violence, martial fights, looking back in the form of flashbacks and unrealistic cases such as fully corrupt US police unit. As for the cast, then the only decent performances were provided by Peter Weller Mr. V and Jean-Claude Van Damme as Tiano, all the others seemed to derive from non-decent amateur theaters. Van Damme's part is strangely short and dull, although it was evident that he is still well fit.Although its length was 1 hour and 20 minutes only, it was dumb to watch at times. Even for brain-switch-off entertainment, there are much better options. On the other hand, it is no worst-movie ever or similar overstatement.