Bones is released from prison, but he promised his friend inside that he would protect his wife and child. He seeks lodging from what appears to be from a totally different film and ends up at some strange fight club/disco, ran by the leader of the lost boys from Hook.
Unbeknown to everyone, he is a genius at martial arts, and it isn't long before he gets the attention of the scarily sounding James, who just as it happens, has his friends wife as his girlfriend (forcibly by the looks of it).
So Bone goes from fight to fight, making money, and vexing the crime lords, and all the while Julian Sands is hamming it up as the films über bad guy. We know he is because he sits across the street in a car, and sits in his garden with all his friends.
Ignore the plot, it isn't really much, and admire the wonderful fight choreography that this film has. Jai-White may be a hulking presence, but his skills are almost balletic, and if he continues to make films like this, and Black Dynamite, he, along with Scott Adkins could be the future of Direct to DVD action movies.
The film harks back to the eighties, and is very reminiscent of the Van Danme movie A.W.O.L (or Lionhearted if your outside the UK), and with each opponent, it becomes more and more difficult, until Bones finally reaches the end of game boss.
So for action fans, its a step up from martial arts films of recent memory, for the casual film watcher, it won't be anything special for you.
And for people who grew up in the eighties, and loved films with the words American, Kickboxer, Eagle, China, and Ninja in their titles, this is a wonderful hybrid of Bloodsport, AWOL, Game of Death, with a hint of Fast and Furious thrown in for good measure.
And it has the best reference to Enter The Dragon ever featured in a movie.
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