Also his use of cartoony sound effects for every movement, no matter how small, become tiresome in previous flicks. Bridge Of Dragon's for example was a pretty bog standard kind of fairy tale action movie.
Similarly Florentine's previous films tended have bizarre mixes of time periods, costumes etc, to create non descript worlds, which just came out as strange on film. Similarly his films never really look too polished, unable to look beyond their clearly meagre budgets. Anyway director Isaac Florentine has always shown a knack for filming fight scenes, without ever really getting the rest particularly right. He's not playing the Wesley Snipes character as we might have assumed, considering White has been rumoured to be replacement Blade for Snipes, and after all Snipes and White are both martial arts demon's. Michael Jai White stars as George "the Ice Man" Chambers, played in the original by Ving Rhames. Now surely there must be more to the plot? Well no, it is essentially an excuse to have some downright superb fight scenes.
A definite adrenaline-pumper!īizarrely a sequel to a film no one saw, about boxing, only this time it's about kickboxing. This is no Jackie Chan hit-em-with-a-broomstick fest. There's a no-nonsense brutality to the fighting that you don't often see these days. The last reviewer made a good point about this film having an 80's action feel to it. Michael Jai plays George Chambers with all the hubris and latent anger you could want, but also with an undertone of humor not present in Ving Rhames' portrayal of the character. Scott Adkins is also an incredibly adept martial arts performer and comes off as an appropriately menacing villain. Michael Jai had a hand in much of the production and his attention to detail in these scenes in particular shows.
Things were slowed down and sped up to catch Michael Jai White's amazing choreography. They were filmed at a very high speed, so there was a hyper-real crispness to them and interesting time changes throughout. I attended the premiere at Paramount Studios and have to say I was impressed by the breathtaking fight scenes.
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