Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
jonny-riggs
If anyone reads this just know i only got 30mins into this god awful movie before i fell asleep. no, i was not tired, it just bored me to tears is all! the ghostly camera work at the start is ugly. an opening sequence of city shots layered on top of each other? tony Scott did it better! slowing down and speeding up the film? tony Scott did it better! in fact this movie just steals from every other movie and has no originality. the creepy music is out of place and snipes looks bored and desperate for any acting job.in fact the whole cast is rubbish and cant act! why bother tell this story? its not worth telling..i have no idea why they bother
patrick-sapper
Cons: No gun is reloaded in the whole movie! They shoot about 100 bullets... it's almost like they are playing GTA with infinite ammo cheat! Too much killing. For people that used to work for the CIA you'd think they would have a conscience. I'd have to say they shot every person they came into contact with! Only like 2 characters survive.The main character... wow
You'd think that after someone innocent is shot he would show some kind of emotion? I count about 5 innocent people shot right beside him and he acts like nothing happened... i thought he was CIA??!? The hand to hand combat scenes are corny and dumb. They speed up the motions making the characters move their hands at some ridiculously unrealistic speed.The end fight scene... the main character just happens to run out of ammo? The first gun in the WHOLE movie to run out of ammo.NO CLOSURE. The movie just ends basically. The main baddies are taken out except for a few? Do they really expect a sequel? Effects imported from Windows Movie Maker?MOST IMPORTANT: NOTHING ORIGINAL. Seen it before in 100 other wannabe famous action movies. The ONLY thing that makes a movie is originality. It's like in music: when someone makes a cover it is NEVER as popular or good as the original.The list just keeps on going, however, I'll stop there before i bore you. Summary: If you're bored on a long school holiday and have seen every rental in the video store, maybe consider it. Don't expect anything special or original. Be prepared for over the top killing, swearing and emotionless characters. Finally, when the movie ends, Don't expect closure. To be honest, I've seen better movie talent on YouTube.
Hellmant
'GAME OF DEATH': Three Stars (Out of Five) Another direct to video Wesley Snipes action film (although it was released theatrically in Japan last November, 2010). In this one Snipes plays a CIA agent who's double crossed by his team on assignment in Detroit. Most of the action takes place in a hospital where Snipes dukes it out with a team of crooked CIA assailants. The film co-stars Zoe Bell, Robert Davi, Ernie Hudson and Gary Daniels (who also played one of the main evil goons in 'THE EXPENDABLES'). It was directed by Giorgio Serafini and written by Jim Agnew and Megan Brown. The film is pretty standard direct to video action fare for the most part but it does have some pretty well done fight scenes and is slightly more entertaining than most, I'd say.The bulk of the film is played out in movie flashbacks as CIA agent Marcus Jones (Snipes) explains the events of his last assignment to a Catholic priest (Hudson) in a church one afternoon. Jones tells how he was posing as the body guard for an arms dealer named Frank Smith (Davi) when his former CIA team double crossed him and his mentor in an attempt to steal $100,000,000 from Smith and his partner John Redvale (Quinn Duffy). They attack Jones and Smith in the car they're traveling in when Smith has a heart attack and Jones takes him to a nearby hospital. The crooked CIA agents then ascend on the hospital in attempt to capture Smith when Jones takes them on one by one.The film is somewhat predictable and pretty routine. The directing is stylized and kind of cool at times but not so impressive at others. The martial arts fight scenes are all well done though and Snipes once again makes a cool 'badass' action hero. Hopefully he can get back to doing some more A list work when he gets out of prison in three years (for tax evasion) but these B action films aren't a bad way for him to show his skills either. They definitely make him and other comparable action stars decent money so you can't feel too sorry for Mr. Snipes paying his dues for trying to rip everyone off. Daniels and Bell are good action movie villains as well and the movie as a whole is just about what you'd expect from something like this. Like I said the film is about average, I'd say it's a little better than the usual but not much.Watch our review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU_O9yN8W_E
tmfs25
Besides the cool fight scenes where he always seems to break their necks everything else about the movie was splotchy and missing detail like how there was random rock music when there wasn't anything going on, and during not all but some of the fight scenes the colors changed to black and white or rainbow something stupid. The part of the movie that infuriated me the most was the fact that he had taken one of the supposed bags of money and went to a church with it ??? and the feds and popo are searching for this guy?? i mean they aren't just gonna let him go gta style he killed what half a dozen CIA and they have absolutely no idea if he killed the other ppl besides the one witness but even with that he is still guilty of stealing the money no matter how righteous the cause if you noticed in the end he left the bag there full of money and the humble pasture listing to him didn't even think to try to stop him to give his bag back it was payment to god for his dammed soul which btw Wesley your still going to hell you stole that moola buddy XD but anyhow he was also walking through the ghetto where most cops bust ppl like crazy you would think someone would notice him ? if i could rate it lower than a 0 i would cause it almost made me throw up XP