Simple premise: 8 assassins wake up in a room and are ordered to kill each other or be killed.
Okay, so with a story that has all the makings of a kick-arse B-flick, a beautiful woman for the boys to drool over and some skilled martial artists to boot, why not a higher score?
Because:
But it's not all bad - I've certainly seen worse - and it's true to what it claims to be: 90 minutes or so of full-on action.
Oh, and the final fight is actually pretty cool... but with so many other decent M.A./action films out there, I'd have a hard job recommending this.
Okay, so with a story that has all the makings of a kick-arse B-flick, a beautiful woman for the boys to drool over and some skilled martial artists to boot, why not a higher score?
Because:
- The two lead Americans are s-l-o-w, painfully so, and their fights scenes are horrible - it was as if their opponents had to stop and wait for the ensuing move to come.
- The fight choreography gave absolutely nothing new. Maybe this wouldn't have been a problem with more story and less action, but with fights constantly throughout the 90 minutes, watching this became repetitive.
- The villains' plan was absurd. "I'm a killer but I hate all other killers"? Seriously?
- Bad English. At first, I was thinking that the film was dubbed, and the voice over given by the female lead come the ending is hard to take.
But it's not all bad - I've certainly seen worse - and it's true to what it claims to be: 90 minutes or so of full-on action.
Oh, and the final fight is actually pretty cool... but with so many other decent M.A./action films out there, I'd have a hard job recommending this.