Worldofgrim

I really really really enjoyed this movie. It carried an emotional & self effacing quality to it. From his love for his tragic brother to his meager attempts at heroic acts. This story tells a literally realistic way, in a comic book style of course, how one could be become a comic book vigilante. There were many levels & details to this film, his comical attempt to design his costume (with homage doodles) and the build up of the final design by his institutional brother's own nightmarish drawings that then ascend to the dream of a hero. I mean the intensity of it really worked for me. I fell for the feelings, the tragedy, the loss and hope.

And it was funny! He had to stop, pull of his mask, and wipe the fog off the lenses! Subtle but awesome! Realistic setup as opposed to over written contrived setup comedy, you know, the kind you laugh it because it makes sense, not because it was setup via caricatures and over acted 2ndary characters.

If not Tony Jaa, then gosh darn close! I could easily go from Tony to Marko and enjoy both thoroughly. And I'd take both over big Hollywood comic book heroes! Though I'd enjoy all just the same.

I'm personally tired of and generally ignore the CG monster horror flicks that premiere on the SyFy Channel. I read that this was one of them. Well this one was done great! The jerk hero was actually likable in his purposely annoying way, very funny, and the story happens quickly, so you are in the bug infestation, what the heck is going on, just after the main guys humorful intro.

The other survivors are decent, the story paces along well, no argument lasts too long and no character however annoying, steals the show. There's that used dad-son expectation loss thing but it works well and lots of good natured character humor. The CG was done rather well, even though I still felt it was composited, it was at least fast paced.

This was a grand ole good movie. I like rating things 10 since there are so many bad films, ones that are 7 and above should just get a 10. It had a nice simple story, 30 assassins get together and kill each other off till there is 1. The story gets right into it! The action is constant throughout! Great impact martial arts, hot Chinese femme fatale with great MMA moves! Lots of gun fire with great impacts, some really bad assassins killing wanton, and blasting gore.

There's a lot of great street car chases with MMA body work, car crashes, car collisions, truck blasts, epic, big, I mean, this felt like a BIG MOVIE! I'm actually shocked it didn't go on the big screen? At least in digital projected theatres!? Carlyle plays his role great as the drunken fallen priest who unknowingly drinks an assassin's locater that the assassin cheatingly removed. So there's more to it then just shootem up, there's the fallen drunken disparate priest affecting the Chinese femme fatale. So nice stuff... good stuff. ENJOYED.