This one was a tough one to score... on paper it has everything to tick the right boxes but the poor execution of the fights was crucial to find itself in the mediocre range. Writer and director Yûdai Yamaguchi just chew a bite too big to swallow... so, at the end kept it in his mouth, I guess.

For Tak Sakaguchi's performance... I have to say: very poor... he is known to be skilled in Bajiquan, Shaolin Kenpo, boxing, kick boxing, and mixed martial arts, and what he demonstrated here was just a choreography the main character in this film was so much against. If you are criticizing somthing, please, do it better ... or at least different...

There is definitely a lot of action in this, and it's choreographed well. My main gripe is that it falls into the same old trope of guys coming one at a time to fight the hero. These are standard bad guy commandos you've seen in a million movies, but come on when there's 15 of them vs one guy with a flash light they can't handle him? I know it would hurt getting hit with a flashlight but if they even get tapped by it theyre on the ground writhing for the rest of the fight. For a movie trying to about REAL action it's ironic how not real any of this would be (I know it's just a movie, which is why I could still enjoy it). The final fight was a treat though and almost worth the movie alone. Gripes aside it's like a lesser version of The Raid. Still definitely worth a watch if your an action fan.