Right, when asked to review films you’re sent the blurbs by the PR people about how good the film is. These are usually dismissed as the sales talk, like a car sales person, trying to big up a weak engine and throwing stats at you like they really matter. For this film it was that Scarlett Johansson’s body double and personal stunt woman Amy Johnston and a team of female stunt people were playing the fighters, and that no other stunt people were used.
However, and this really got under my skin, the fight scenes were just plain terrible. I mean there was no shocks, the punches were tame, the kicks were laboured, and the tension was just nowhere to be seen.
How can a bunch of stunt people in a room fighting be dull?
I have little to say without going full bashing against the film, then we’d be 20 pages deep, if fighting films that are throwbacks to the 90’s or 80’s are your thing you’re going to see what is wrong with this film quicker than anyone else. As the finale ramps up I thought that we’d see the fury that was promised from the main character. But we don’t. My advice is that you use actors for acting and stunt people doing the amazing job that they do best. Also maybe make fight scenes with moves that don’t look like pie fights from the silent movie era. I personally would avoid this film again. But the choice is, as it always is, in your hands.
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Director:Â Miguel A. Ferrer
Writers: Anastazja Davis, Miguel A. Ferrer
Stars: Amy Johnston, Cortney Palm, Rey Goyos & more…See full cast & crew
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