Blood Money

I read a lot of the past reviews and yes there are areas in this movie that are at times confusing and yes we can not clearly understand every word our hero is saying and heck yes some of the special effects are very badly done. The plot was not exactly clear either. However that all being said, I must say that when I sat down to watch this I wasn't expecting an academy award winning, Oscar taking movie, no I was simply expecting the old style martial arts movies from the old days,and yes, even a Bruce Lee style movie, and for me that is exactly what I got. I have yet to sit down to a martial arts movie and expect an Oscar, no I expect great fight scenes and this movie has that for sure. We don't get a choppy fight scene where the screen cuts from one angle to another after every punch to hide the fact that the stunt person is actually doing it, no this movie lets you see a continuous flow of action during the fights and not close up on the face or arm or leg but on the whole body in motion. The main actor here might not have been a Bruce Lee cause there will never be another Bruce but as far as his fighting style on screen he would make Bruce proud. Visual physical poetry in motion. It's true I give this movie a 5 which is good, and thats just because of the great fight scenes.

I got this movie at full price, 20$ new, which is something i rarely do. I took this one cause it had a french track on it, kudos to them for making it, as the other 2 movies i hesitated with didn't had it... I just hate English dubs, and those other movies where Asian. I can stand french dubs cause i was raised watching those, but English dubs... no. So i got to watch them in cantonese with subtitles and well... anyway.

So i got this one and well... let me say that its a very sloppy movie. The story is hard to follow, as some pointed out, there is not much explaining who is who and does what, its one of those movie that could had use a voice over with a freeze frame on the major players explaining who they where.

Then the special effects... I'm sorry but computer blood and fire explosions that seem like they where made by an university student for a movie project... no thanks... Damn they are bad.

Martial Arts? Well the only saving grace of this movie... some are actually well done and pretty good, but sadly sometimes it got to be stained by that usual wired crap that its just screaming obvious in your face.

In the end, a very forgettable movie that i should had got for 5$ in the bargain bin, not at full retail price...

I understand were all different. We all see things in a unique perspective-our own.

Having said that, I cant believe for one second that someone sat through this whole movie and thought to themselves, 'wow!'. I cant believe it.

I wanted this to be good 'cos I was bored and hoping it would sit nicely. I was wrong. Its very confusing and feels like its trying too hard to be something its not-exciting and plot-driven.

Im sorry. There is no way someone thought this movie was above a 5, let alone an 8!

The ratings at IMDb cannot be trusted. Come here to get the plot idea about the movie but put no faith in the ratings. They are garbage. Either that, or the site has nothing but 12yr old 'pitbull' fans posting their reviews.

Don't get excited like I did and mistake this for some kick-ass Hong Kong actioner. It's actually an Australian cheapie which just so happens to be shot in Hong Kong. It stars the unknown actor Zheng Liu as a fighter who gets involved in a battle against the usual drug runners. I know little about Liu, except that he trained at the real-life Shaolin Temple, but his acting is woefully bad and any martial talents he possesses are hidden by poor choreography which all too often employs the unwanted shaky-cam. The plot is cookie cutter stuff, Gordon Liu's cameo is wasted, and the CGI explosions take bad FX to the next level. It's pretty tiresome, if I'm honest.

With all the world's economic and recessional real life trailers hitting our screens of reality costing people their whole existences,to be able to have some story of a supernatural way to conquer the real hard moments we are all in is much required. To draw upon unique and profound powers of the personality to beat the odds at all costs is what people wish to learn to know...maybe, just maybe we can all do this feat...a better world by focusing within and applying this power outwards in our lives for a better change for our human race...well done Bloodmoney on a small budget getting a big message out..go back to the basics and work the power. The world has been bleeding profusely because of the manipulated world economics. Maybe we can all understand the sublime messages coming through from Bloodmoney...I can.