Touches You

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

first of all this movie is very underrated, very fun to watch a lot of kicking martial arts Scott Adkins is best lead role ever ! i would highly recommend for Action fans to watch this movie if you guys love Scott Adkins and Isaac Florentine you should check this out this is one of Very Non Stop Action Movies Scott Adkins kicked a lot of ass, a lot of martial arts moves fights a lot of them just goes Non Stop completely Storyline there is but short one because movie goes for 1h,20 min. Plot is A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight (Scott Adkins) Colton MacReady went to place and All Cartels are kick's Mexican Cartel ass to get his niece back after been kidnapped buy them, Colton killed Victor Garcia (Ray Diaz) Cartel Boss of Son father founds out guy who was in EX Special Forces Marines from Sheriff Jasper Calloway corrupt sheriff (Nick Chinlund) told him that Colton killed his son father Fernando Garcia (Tony Perez)all cartel's and one of dirty cops coming after family Angela Reynolds, Hailey Reynolds are his family his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter. are in danger he is has to product them while he is doing that the killed a lot of ass in movie camera movement is very interesting movement in one single fight with one shot no cut to cut scenes very well made no fake staff Scott Adkins got new moves for fight scenes movie went on and on with action very short movie, with big action to it Scott Adkins is just badass in movie full on range with action. Scott Adkins was great in such badass roles like Undisputed 2 & 3 A lot of new Martial Arts and Action Projects like Hard Target 2 witch has noting to do with Jean Claude Van Damme film or the new Undisputed IV movie witch it looks mad in my opinion Scott Adkins is great actor honesty if you guys are action go and check this movie out !

In the Bubble of DTV Action Movies Director Isaac Florentine and Kick-Ass Specialist Scott Adkins are Bonafide Stars. This Cheapie chips away at every Trope available to the makers of this sort of Stuff. The most Impressive thing in this thing is the way the Camera Lingers on the Martial Arts for the Viewer to be Awed and made aware that these Guys have Skills. Compare that to its Big Budget Betters and the Cheat of Shaky Cameras and Quick Cuts that leave the Audience with Incomprehensible Scenes that contain absolutely nothing in the "What is Actually Happening?" Department.Here stands an Appreciation for the Skill Involved and a Respect for the Fans delivering what They Paid for. Sure, the Story is Thin and the Director makes some rather Questionable Decisions that Detract from the Film.First, whose Brain-Dead Decision decided to include Actual Scenes from the Movie in the OPENING CREDITS. Imagine the Production Meeting (if there ever was such a thing) and someone said..."You know what would be Really-Cool...Let's take some of the Scenes in the Movie and show them in the Credits before they actually occur". Sheesh!Sergio Leone notwithstanding, that rarely is anything but Artistic. It's just Plain Bad Filmmaking. How about the lengthy Scene in the Car when Characters are Introduced with Nicknames on Screen. Just Plain Dumb and Unforgivable unless You are Tarantino. This Guy is no Leone or Tarantino. The Ending is a Homage it seems with a Protracted and Embarrassing contrived Suspense Builder that does nothing but draw attention to its "Hipness", or lack thereof.Overall, despite its Corny Conceits and Endless Bullet Bouncing, the Martial Arts Scenes make it Worth a Watch.

Something you might not expect of reading, with a low budget movie like this, but I really liked the stunt and camera work, which go hand in hand in this one. I won't waste too much time on "story". In this case this has nothing to do with spoiling it, because the story itself is not really exciting or anything extraordinary. But you wouldn't expect that anyway.Still very low and some of the acting to say the least does not help the movie either. But the stunt scenes are really well thought of, as are the camera angles and moves. I especially love the longer takes or the in your face (or hand) approach it takes. Again, this is small/low budget, so it's not like there is other things that are amazing (like locations, set design, even some of the "blood" effects seem more than cheap), but it can still work - and I think it does in some ways

They had about 60 minutes worth of story, and padded it out with long shootouts.And more long shootouts through what looked like drywall.Which should have ended the "standoff" in about 3 minutes, with the folks on the other side of the drywall dead.Then they padded some more, by (tiniest of SPOILER) giving us an interminable (and terribly acted) scene full of meaningful glares in a moving vehicle. Stretching the scene out, even more, with freeze frames and supplying us with the names of the disposable bad guys. Names that had no importance or meaning to the rest of the film. At all. Which is too bad, really, as I have a suspicion that Scott Adkins might actually be able to pull off a good leading role if he had an actual script to work with. And perhaps an actual director who wasn't trying to channel Sergio Leone meets Shaw Brothers.Had the potential to be a decent, gut-bucket B-movie, but the delusions of being better than it was defeated everyone involved.