Best Action Movie Ever -

[Julio Ceasar]

Am I getting old? Just look like shit to me. Randome action movie. Good fighting scenes, wow...I guess i have left the movie thing behind me...seem like every movie from Hollywood are made to please 15 years old children...

[Voice of Doom]

Great film.  This and Tony Jaa's stuff really show the rise of the Asian countries. 

[Megalodon]

'Joint Security Area' is a VERY GOOD Korean movie. It has action but the outstanding story is what's so compelling. You can get it on DVD.

[stuntmovie]

Saw it last weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the best action movies I've seen.

BUT .... I thought that the fight scenes were a little to long.... especially when the two bros took on the little guy. I felt that they should have called "Time Out" and taken a five minute break before getting back into it.

I agree that some foreign movies and/or independents are better than most of what Hollywood can produce.

I forget who produced ARENA but I thought that was also one hell of a great film. Check it out at Blockbuster

[Fortress]

Am I getting old? Just look like shit to me. Randome action movie. Good fighting scenes, wow...I guess i have left the movie thing behind me...seem like every movie from Hollywood are made to please 15 years old children...

Old, I don't know, but certainly misinformed. This ain't a Hollywood flick. Hell, it's subtitled. Made in Phillipines.

[stuntmovie]

FORT, Not sure ..... but I think it was made in Indonesia and not in the Philippines. Whomever made it did one hell of a great job though.

I was hoping at the end that  the brother who was the cop would turn and go back inside while the gate was almost completely closed to  somehow get his brother out.

I guess they are saving that for the sequel.

Anyone have any idea on how that second episode should be written?

Great film. Good to see that I wasn't the only one to like it.

[Fortress]

FORT, Not sure ..... but I think it was made in Indonesia and not in the Philippines. Whomever made it did one hell of a great job though.

I was hoping at the end that  the brother who was the cop would turn and go back inside while the gate was almost completely closed to  somehow get his brother out.

I guess they are saying that for the sequel.

Anyone have any idea on how that second episode should be written?

Great film. Good to see that I wasn't the only one to like it.

Okay, maybe wrong about where it was made, so ... Oops.

I like your idea of how they could have left it for a sequel.

[stuntmovie]

No, FORT, you could be correct about the Phillippines but I think Indonesia because I saw some mention of Indonesia during the closing credits.

Plus the lead actor (Iko Uwais) is from Indonesia.

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Iko Uwais has been learning Indonesian traditional martial art, Silat since he was 10 years old. National champion in 2005 in Silat Demonstration category, Iko's talent as a martial art actor was discovered by Welsh film Director, Gareth Evans who visited Iko's silat school for a documentary in 2007. Evans then asked Iko to quit his daytime job as a driver in a telecommunication company and join Evans' movie production company as the leading actor in his movies.

[stuntmovie]

Who the hell was the little guy who took on the two bros at the end? He loved to kill his opponents and that actor did a great job playing that role.

The casting of a little guy for that role was genius.

I'd like to nominate him for an Academy Award.

Hollywood could never do a film like this.

[stuntmovie]

I can now answer my own question ...... Yayan Ruhian

As far as I am concerned he took that picture over the top.

A real GetBigger ... a little guy who can beat up big guys.  But not over the internet.

2nd photo is Yayan the bad little guy
1st photo is the hero of the film

[Fortress]

No, FORT, you could be correct about the Phillippines but I think Indonesia because I saw some mention of Indonesia during the closing credits.

Plus the lead actor (Iko Uwais) is from Indonesia.

I do think you're correct, now that I think about it.

[Fortress]

As far as I am concerned he took that picture over the top ... a little guy who can beat up big guys.

Yeah, his character is cool, but one thing I kept thinking while watching (and talked about with my bud after it ended) ... The guy punches and kicks constantly but never really does any harm (except when he, like, finally twists some dude's bean 'til it breaks or whatever). And the fellas he's fighting are not much bigger than him, either.

Especially in the final fight with the brothers. He's putting out the intended hard but all of it is really not having much in the way of a crippling effect. Hell, both bros walk out of the room quite fine after they've finished him off, even, despite being punched, kicked and thrown into "oblivion".

Little badass has all the moves but no strength or power to make it all effective. I mean, how could they sell this dude squaring off against a Poundstone type?! In Raid, there's not one guy weighing over 165 pounds, tops.

This is my rant for now (ha, ha).

 

[seCrawler]

[stuntmovie]

GOOD RANT - Ho Ho.

A somewhat similar rant that I gotta express .....

What are all those other guys doing that allow the hero to fight each of them one on one .... and when he's done with one ..... another one appears on scene to continue the 'punch' until he does down and then another one immediately appears?

Are they all too busy making cell phone calls or what?

But there is another move that I understand is supposed to be somewhat similar.

I only saw a part of it in which the Karate hero fights 'thousands' of antagonists while running up the interior stair-case of a very big building. Anyone recall that one?