I took the unfortunate displeasure of watching this film for three reasons back when it first came out:
Nicholas Cage
Frank Grillo
Tony Jaa
I didn't mind Alain Moussi being in the film as the lead (he was also the star of the new Kickboxer reboot that had JCVD as his trainer).
You would think with a cast like that a plot about a martial arts space hunter coming to earth to find the best fighter in a duel to the death would make for a rad low-budget B-movie, yet that's not what happened.
OP is spot on. This was the worst Nicholas Cage film by a long stretch.
It managed to be both boring and ridiculous all at once, and only had one good fight scene and that was with the guy with the staff (from what I can remember).
They somehow managed to get Nick Cage, Frank Grillo, Tony Jaa and Alain Moussi all in a movie together, and the only GOOD fight scene goes to the Predator-Power Ranger and some no-name guy with a staff? Talk about dropping the ball in the waste bin.
The plot is absolutely ridiculous and makes no sense at all, all of the characters die stupid deaths, and the ending was super lame.
The only thing I remember of Nick Cage in the film was that he tried to give a sort of low-rent Yoda meets hobo-Gandalf performance that didn't really land.
This is one of the few movies I think I gave a 1 or a 2 and deservedly so.
I took the unfortunate displeasure of watching this film for three reasons back when it first came out:
I didn't mind Alain Moussi being in the film as the lead (he was also the star of the new Kickboxer reboot that had JCVD as his trainer).
You would think with a cast like that a plot about a martial arts space hunter coming to earth to find the best fighter in a duel to the death would make for a rad low-budget B-movie, yet that's not what happened.
OP is spot on. This was the worst Nicholas Cage film by a long stretch.
It managed to be both boring and ridiculous all at once, and only had one good fight scene and that was with the guy with the staff (from what I can remember).
They somehow managed to get Nick Cage, Frank Grillo, Tony Jaa and Alain Moussi all in a movie together, and the only GOOD fight scene goes to the Predator-Power Ranger and some no-name guy with a staff? Talk about dropping the ball in the waste bin.
The plot is absolutely ridiculous and makes no sense at all, all of the characters die stupid deaths, and the ending was super lame.
The only thing I remember of Nick Cage in the film was that he tried to give a sort of low-rent Yoda meets hobo-Gandalf performance that didn't really land.
This is one of the few movies I think I gave a 1 or a 2 and deservedly so.