After "The Art of Eight Limbs" i noticed there is a few more Martial Arts movies coming from the same company in a short ammount of time.
I was really interested in this one because not only is it about prison fights (huge Boyka fan here) but it also star Caity Lotz wich i really enjoyed in the Arrowverse.
Well this movie do a few things right, and a few things wrong. There is a decent ammount of time spent on the siblings and the love and care they have for each others. The story with their father is layout quick and he is immediately presented as a selfish POS.
You can see in the trailer he litterally get his own kids in prison because it will serve his interest. So right away you supose to hate the guy. The movie didn't spend enough time to develope his story either before or after this. And the other vilains are mostly token vilains.
The fights themselves are very decent (without being exeptional either), but the emotional aspect didn't got me engaged enough for them to serve their part. I would say especially in the third act, the movie had me scatching my head a bit.
Basically the very structure of the movie needed some tweaking to get me invested more. I can't really talk about all the issues i had with the script because it would involve spoilers and i want to keep this review spoiler free.
I will say it was a bit better than The Art of Eight Limbs mostly because of the leads being more likable, but it did suffer on the same issues when it comes to the Martial Arts aspects. Basically choreographies well done, but lacking emotions and engagement in the story around them.
The next release by this company will be a Cynthia Rothrock movie, and she has not done one like that in ages, having only small parts and cameos in her recent movie appearance. So im very curious to know how it turn out and will surely review it.
I do apreciate this company putting out martial art flicks wich are not release that often these days, but they really need to refine their scripts in my opinion before filming. Otherwise they do decent stuff with something that seem like a small budget. This movie is good enough for a one time rental but thats about it.
