Fistful of Vengeance

I opted out of Wu assassins (despite wanting to support fellow asian actor from my home country) and stumbled into this movie. Didn't know it was related to that series.

I guess you can call it campy? It felt very b grade movie. Maybe they are looking for that old school Hong Kong movie vibe, but it's not working that much for me.

I also hope one of these days Lewis Tan can star in a movie that I can actually watch in repeat.

I really wanted to give this a rave review, I loved the Wu Assassin TV Show but this is a pale imitation.

I felt bad for scoring it so low

The story is poor, it's as if they rushed to out a movie together so that people would remember the Wu Assassin existed , they should not have bothered, the story is disjointed with no character development, characters appear with no real addition to the storyline, the bad guys wear black leather jackets with metal studs and the hood guys wear normal street clothes that's the level this is working at

Poor editing and production make for a film that had potential to come across as poor and Ill-conceived, I'm not if Katheryn Winnick could have rescued this?

The good points are the fight scenes with Uwais and Tan kicking but, they are well choreographed as you would expect from something with Iko Uwais starring

Watch it if you like long decent choreographed martial arts sequences, just turn your brain all the way down to not caring what you watch mode and you'll be ok.

It feels as if a few actors said to each other," I know a guy who does weddings part time, we can hire him to do a movie and I have a story that came to me in a lucid dream when I was drunk, and my 12 years old sister told me she can write a script for it as she studies drama in school, let's all put our savings and make this great movie... 1. Bad , bad fight scenes. They look so bad, it is stunning how they managed to make them bad as it would be hard 2. Cinematography/camerawork is absolutely horrible. One of the worst I've seen this year. Shaky camera, weird angles, bad cuts (too hide poor fight scenes), bad use of extas 3. Script is boring. Story makes no sense and the script is extremely poorly written.

To be honest I could not finish. Gave up midway as there was no sense continuing after a 45 minute torture of amateurish nonsense. Anyone giving this movie a higher than 4-5 rating would be lying. I have no idea how Netflix was involved in this "craftmanship"

This was a convoluted, incoherent, incohesive and sloppily written screenplay. The scene editing in the cutting room was blender-worthy. Things just happen out of mid-air, other times scenes are missing important factors. Having seen the TV series, there was still too much confusion in this story, so I can imagine how lost most viewers who haven't seen the series would've felt. Even with the usually comfortable 94 min runtime and decent pacing, this felt too long and dragged out with all filler and fight scenes, and hardly any real storyline. And it's a shame, because Iko Uwais' amazing fighting skills even got boring with the same long dragged out and pointless fight scenes. There's a point when even too much of a great thing becomes boring and stale, and this was the case with all the action - pretty much 50% of the entire film, the rest just a cloudy misguided and lazy story, if you can even call it a story. It's also a shame the writing was so bad because of how great the casting and performances were. Even Pearl Thusi's intimate scene displaying her breathtaking and bodacious tatas was hot. The set locations and scenery were outstanding, and the cinematography was on point. But the best part of this film, was the soundtrack. I haven't heard that many great songs in one film for a very long time. I'll be definitely searching out for that soundtrack. Nevertheless, I'm still giving this a very generous 6/10 (2 stars go strictly to Thusi's lovely pair), and it could've been much higher had the writers and director fixed the terrible writing.

Loved Wu Assassin .. wished they had made a second series... this is supposed to be a follow on movie?? Storyline is hard to follow as it does not explain itself very well .. half the time you dont know whats going on .. and such a weak story as well... shame really.