At first I was excited to see this! As the first fight popped up, I was pumped. Then I watched it and it was truly a fail. I kept on watching and realize how the acting felt like a YouTube video... The camera moves more than it should, it closes up so much. It gets you dizzy and makes you take medicine. The fighting scenes were a big disappointment, even children of Asia could do better. It is truly the worst fighter movies I have seen. Hate all you want, but on the range of movies I watched. None can get worse than this. Even martial art videos chereograped on YouTube are way more entertaining than this. Fights on this are so slow and truly a laugh. I am big fan of fights and this one made me lose that pride. Also, the ladies on this movie have butter faces and they can't even make me happy because their acting is literally worser than a middle schoolers drama class. This is truly your fail movie.
... View MoreAfter following the progress of Action Director James Richard i finally acquired a copy of Among Dead Men who is now widely distributed in the united states by Amazon.com and Walmart superstores.I have watched and watched this film over 4 times now and thought to myself.what a incredible display of talents.The directing is exquisite and the Camera work spot on.The actors performances are actually good and I have enjoyed the lesser characters equally to the leads.This is a great little independent production that has been well promoted and sold by phase4films over the united states and Canada.The ethnic diversity of the casts is making this film a real melting pot of cultures taking the viewers from Hawaii to the Gold Coast of Australia in a blink of a eyes.The music is also a important factor of this martial art stunner with is full steam feature of style ranging from Kick Boxing,wing chun Kung Fu and Chinese boxing.all scores will be settled in this game of death.
... View MoreAccording to Filmtreat.com this film Have already returned is budget several times.Low Budget Films with a budget under 1.000.000 USD are in General and most of the time of poor Quality standards in matter of production Values and actions sequences.This 7000 AUD Feature Film Has more Grunt and Humanity then most of The Newly Fantasized UFC Fever MMA Pseudo Martial Art Flick.This no Budget little film managed to win a Award for is Fights in 2008 International Action On Film Festival relying only on the strength and Talent of is Actors, Director and writers.What a amazing achievement on is own,of course we can pick many faults due to low end equipment and some can also pin point the quality of the Audio recording of the Voice Over but at the end of the day Nobody can ignore that this guys got Talent and are to be watched closely when they would manage to get another project under a proper financial scheme.I have found the real strength of this Film to be the underlying message that the main Character was more of a victim of is own making that only redemption would take him out of this deadly Game, Very touching and very Human.
... View MoreAccording to the box office link, this film cost $7000 to make. If true then the film makers should be applauded. Putting that to one side, this film becomes one of extremes. It goes from good to bad then back again which makes the overall viewing experience a frustrating one. Some of the acting is very good but this is overshadowed by several poor performances. The sidekick character is one noticeable culprit, as is the love interest. The fights also suffer from extremes. The first brawl and the villain's back alley fight against three toughs are fast and exciting, but unfortunately when it really counts, the standard is sub par. The fight where the leading man kills his opponent and his final confrontation with the villain are exceptionally weak and these are the fights which should have been the strongest. Overall, the film is a mish mash of ideas that lack consistency. The bizarre narration is poorly written and leaves the viewer scratching his head while many of the confrontational scenes work quite well. The leading man is physically awesome but one dimensional, the bad guys are good as are some of the smaller character parts. Where this film stands out though is in the camera direction and editing. With such a low budget, maybe my criticism is too harsh because there are big budget films out there that don't match up to this one. To wrap up, this film is good on a technical level but it's a shame that some of the on screen talent just weren't up to scratch.
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