No Surrender

I really like Scott Adkins and last week i watched Avengement on Netflix and it was amazing. This week i decided to rent "No Surrender" as its call here at the local video store wich had released a few weeks ago.

The front cover got Scott Adkins on it, the back cover also has Scott Adkins with his name in big capital letters. Everything make you beleive this is a Scott Adkins movie. In the end his role is super small. Thats pretty much an extended cameo at best. Very disapointing.

The story is not bad, i actually liked the main guy and if it was not for the terrible VVS french dubbing (they obviously had Team B on this one, the same guys who do all the DTV releases) i think it would be a fairly decent movie. The problem is i watched it on my Beer Friday Night, where i drink a lot and get in the mood for a big action movie, usually martial arts. So i was very disapointed and kept saying "where is Scott ... cmon !!"

So my enjoyement of the movie was sadly affected by this. As the title says i felt like i was deceived by the producers who put Scott face all over the promo material only for him to be barely in the movie. He is more in Expendables 2 than this, thats saying something.

So i would say if you know what to expect its an alright movie, its not bad at all, but know that Scott is a very minor character.

Short and sweet: If you're looking for an action packed Adkins flick. This ain't it. Fast forward 3/4 of the movie to see Scott fight. Choreography was good enough. Skip the rest.

Bad acting from the most actors and actresses and the scenario was pretty low, despite M Hemida acting was original except when he uses that lame words to make fun of someone. Ps "worst scenario for a good story"

The story is good however the acting is bad there are some good actors like Adam Frank and the crazy one and the Egyptian side in general I wish that they didn't try to make it funny because it isn't funny the music is bad they are the worst, and they keep changing them so rapidly and so abruptly you don't have much time to feel what you suppose to feel the sound effect is bad it is the same sound in the entire movie there is a scene I wish they muted the sound effect and just keep the music going but no they didn't mute the grisly sound effect and the scene converted the worst scene or the second worst scene in the entire movie

Well, this movie is hard to see. It has a nice story, and a well balanced pace... but... First of all, forget Adkins... here, he is only a secondary character, a decoy. The actors aren't great, but I've seen a lot worst in Hollywood, so... The audio, oh man... The accents are awful... For me that's the major let down on this movie, the awful accents... Why didn't they keep this in their native language?

Still, the first time I saw it, I was disappointed... I saw because of Adkins and the awesome trailer, but he only shows hopoe for a couple of minutes... The second time, I forced myself to rewatch it, with low expectations, and I was entertained.

That's it... not good, but way better than the first Hulk movie (2003), and many others after that...