03-08-2023, 10:34 AM
This has been in my queue since, well 2020. It's a Scott Adkins flick that I have no idea who the target audience is. Maybe just me?
A teen girl falls into a videogame Tron-style, only this vid is one of those 24 bit games like in the 80s. In the game, the characters come alive and Scott plays Max, the captain of a space ship who is caricaturically macho. Their world looks like an 80s sci-fi, something Golan-Globus might have ground out back in those days. On one level, this is a kids' flick if you can overlook a few curse words. On another, it's a retro flick for people that lived through the 80s. And then there's the fights. It struggles to make its self mocking quirkiness into something cult cinema worthy. Plus it's a father-daughter tale.
Scott does his best videogame fighter impersonation and it's spot on. He fights ninjas. Textbook straight snap kicks always off the same leg. And gloriously violent. He threw a gruesome move where he stabs a ninja in the shoulder and then runs the knife down the arm like filleting a fish - that earned a patented DMD00Mchuckle. He shanks another ninja with an uppercut strike to the jaw, sticking his head to the ceiling, which was worth a patented DMD00Msmirk. Honestly I only watched this for the fights. And they were okay. Needed more...like a sword fight maybe.
The film fails horribly. Little bits are amusing, but it never decides what its doing or what the point of it all is.
Not D00M recommended at all.
Seen on Hoopla
A teen girl falls into a videogame Tron-style, only this vid is one of those 24 bit games like in the 80s. In the game, the characters come alive and Scott plays Max, the captain of a space ship who is caricaturically macho. Their world looks like an 80s sci-fi, something Golan-Globus might have ground out back in those days. On one level, this is a kids' flick if you can overlook a few curse words. On another, it's a retro flick for people that lived through the 80s. And then there's the fights. It struggles to make its self mocking quirkiness into something cult cinema worthy. Plus it's a father-daughter tale.
Scott does his best videogame fighter impersonation and it's spot on. He fights ninjas. Textbook straight snap kicks always off the same leg. And gloriously violent. He threw a gruesome move where he stabs a ninja in the shoulder and then runs the knife down the arm like filleting a fish - that earned a patented DMD00Mchuckle. He shanks another ninja with an uppercut strike to the jaw, sticking his head to the ceiling, which was worth a patented DMD00Msmirk. Honestly I only watched this for the fights. And they were okay. Needed more...like a sword fight maybe.
The film fails horribly. Little bits are amusing, but it never decides what its doing or what the point of it all is.
Not D00M recommended at all.
Seen on Hoopla
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