More than one year ago, Paramount decided to distribute more cheaper than they do movies by reviving in their owning rights Republic Pictures, a company existed from 1935 to 1967 which specialized on making low-budget films and it was killed by popularization of television. Every flick’s trailer appearing with current using of this logo exposed it’s two-bitness, lifeless and simplicity. Video of Art of Eight Limbs optioned on positive. No that plot has repercussions of Bruce Lee’s classic Enter the Dragon. I was more confident I shouldn’t expect something alike to Michelangelo in sculpturing and I relied on get good entertainment.
Art of Eight Limbs is one of four upcoming in the nearest weeks martial arts movies made by new studio Tiger Style Media. Trailers tantalized for naïve on these movies “from producers” which one was on Tarantino’s works and other was involved in two in Halloween series (as well as great Highlander: Endgame from myself.). Certainly, no big meaningfulness here (and usually in such cases.) in that their names were put on something known or popular. One of them, whose name H. Daniel Gross, decided also to become a scriptwriter. He is an author of all four arriving flicks.
I watched a first one. A low-budget shows itself with Word printed credits while a film has solid acting of unknown cast (in which I heard name Vithaya Pansringarm whereas Nicholas Hammond was familiar and I revealed he was a first actor who performed Spider-Man whose movies I didn’t courage to watch.), filigree staging of fights has correct using of slow motion and I believed in confrontations, dialogs are beautiful by that villains don’t show themselves as pure bad guys and behave as authentic people in reality and a storyline evaded stereotypes and moved more aside from Enter the Dragon. Personally, Sahajak Boonthanakit does magnificent presentation of general.
A narration was going well. I had interest to script and had pleasure to rumbles. I didn’t and I wouldn’t care at all on relocation of characters in rude editing work which was few times. I relaxed when heroes were dry after they out of the water. Of course, if CIA appoints the whitest man in the world in Myanmar, he and his club will be under suspicion and I’ll say it will initially. I have a second movie in this year doing such mistake. However, when the whitest man in the world (played by Nicholas Hammond) begins to commit folly acts with a local agent (who is a daughter of undercover agent in general’s organization.) in tracking truck, I accepted for real unprofessionalism. It doesn’t look fantastic after many wrongdoings of Secret Service through years. But the script became weak in the last dozen minutes. A lead hero and the whitest man in the world weren’t so tied for be incapable to resist to Asian doctor who wanted to inject his poison and, unfortunately, the last will do the most racist thing in the world which is killing of the whitest man in the world. No doubt, I was offended.
An Asian female agent demonstrates incredible fighting skills, but she will be grabbed by Arab who doesn’t known any martial arts and had no interest to watch tournament in beginning. The last is very strange for definition because it contained only four contenders. A protagonist, who will come on safe trapped Asian agent and her father, will offer a strange deal in front of advanced in quantity villains. I can’t understand why the general agreed on combat of his champion with a main personage for release… but all three writers didn’t aspire, I think, to resolve how better to make there. The lead hero had fight with champion before in which he defeated hardly while their another meeting became impossible to believe beating of a bad man ended in far-fetched final where the protagonist pushed him with general stayed on a way to chamber whereas it’s illogical for lead antagonist to be there. “Why didn’t henchmen come on help to boss?” is question in the end.
I guess, I will not try luck with other three pictures.
