“Order: Kill” (“Kill Order”, 2017)
"Order: Kill" is a low-budget science fiction action movie with quite a lot of action scenes. At the center of the film is a teenager, around whom storylines revolve about experiments on people, an alter ego concealing superpowers, secret organizations with people in black glasses and, as usual, the main Japanese, and so on.
There are quite a lot of unnecessary and undisclosed characters in the film and many more answers than questions. The special effects are quite simple and unsophisticated, but we must admit that there are exactly as many of them as needed. It’s the same with fighting scenes: there are a lot of them, they have good timing and are clearly filmed (both from the point of view of editing and from the point of view of camera work), the main character twirls amplitude blows and jumps, hits guy kicks, showing us an arsenal of possibilities, True, it won’t be able to surprise you with anything. His skill is exactly the same as any basic tricker-kicker has now, and the choreography is very smooth, correct and with a touch of sterility.
Perceive "Order: Kill", as a full-fledged mature feature film, it’s not worth it, sci-fi fans will have nothing to profit from, but as a presentation Chris Mark (main character) and James Mark (director and screenwriter) he works well enough. There is a small battle scene, performed without editing, in some places there is good music, although the voice acting of noises and impacts is somewhat disappointing, and in short episodes you can see Brian Ho and a newly minted “kickboxer” Alena Mussi.
“Plan B: Screw Plan A” (“Plan B - Sheiss Auf Plan A”, 2017)
"Plan b" from the team "Reel Deal Action" somewhat reminiscent of "Unlucky Stars" It is ironic and self-ironic, the plot in it is fussy, situational and locational (the heroes, as in the game, carry out tasks in various locations and get into trouble), there is a clear bias towards retro, and the style and choreography of the fights is “Hong Kong style version 2.0”. There are a lot of main and minor characters in which you can get a little confused, and the main trinity is just another type of “random heroes” who were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The guys tried to fill the film with good casting in the person Gideon Burchard и Julia Dietze, and also assembled a very strong team of extras, including Heidi Moneymaker (John Wick 2»"War of the Wolves 2") and Mike Moeller (“One million k(l)iks”, "Final Judgment").
If you go galloping through the choreography, everything is extremely technical, dynamic, with a high tempo, but at the same time, with the exception, perhaps, Kana Eidina, the characters are slightly different from each other in style (both enemies and main characters), and the fights are perceived as a kaleidoscope of movements without any dramatic convolutions. Despite the fact that everything is executed professionally, accurately and in a good picture, you either don’t have time to taste the dish itself, or, after chewing, you don’t feel the aftertaste.
The guys have a lot of energy and combat erudition, they try to add visual gloss and look more expensive than they are. We see almost frame-by-frame tributes to one film or another, but so far it’s all a cute but vaudeville action movie.
"The Liberator" (2017)
"Liberator" - long-term construction by Ben Lettieri (starring actor, screenwriter and director), who was announced all the way back in 2014, and which You can watch it only with correction and a clear understanding that this is an uncompromisingly amateur film, shot on a slipper in your backyard and in your dad’s garage.
At the center of the plot we have an awkward and extremely undignified protagonist (Ben Lettieri), who carries out private tasks: to free the kidnapped girls or find the missing vase, around which the main events ultimately develop. In short, husband for an hour. Carrying out serious analytics of camera work, editing or music in this case is like looking for a black cat in a dark room. Everything is better with acting: people try, and the main villain (Daniel Jordan) in some places betrays Joker-Waltzian passions. The fight choreography is done on the verge of charming, inept clumsiness and old school, which either fails in black, then the next second shamelessly copies fragments from "Double strike"With JCVD.
The only scenes that stand out from this skit are the fights involving Martina Van, in particular his fight with Jim Kay (both from the stunt team SG Action UK). This is already a full-fledged combat choreography of people practicing martial arts, which, with a stretch, can be called competitive with respect to other amateur fighting movies.
"Liberator" reminds a lot of people «Kamikaze" Marcus Shakescheffа. I think they should join their formidable efforts and remove "Kamikaze Liberator".
"The Danger Element" (2017)
"Dangerous Element" - closest relative "Liberator". Main character (John Suarez), as well as Ben Lettieri, a one-man orchestra: he is a screenwriter, an editor, and a director. They even have a similar picture with “Liberator”. The plot is either post-apocalyptic, or a parallel universe, or a science-fiction action movie. Visually - “there is no money, but you are holding on.”
In the center of events is a certain Battle Jitney, a representative of a secret order, a hero with retro motorcycle glasses on his head and an Indiana Jones jacket, who, together with his sister, is looking for a mysterious “dangerous element” that develops speed, compresses time and creates a bunch of other miracles, almost It doesn’t massage eggs (I won’t be me if I don’t mention eggs in the review). In parallel with the search, the main character struggles with his demons. He is prevented from combining searches and attacks of schizophrenia by gangs, an evil scientist (who miraculously wormed his way here Doug Jones), a ridiculous secret agent and many others who are also hunting for this element.
The film has a lot of not very funny humor, a bunch of different grotesque characters and fights that are filmed with such shaking that your eyes will inevitably hurt. This makes it very difficult to make out many details, but it can be noted that everything is fast and fussy, from time to time people perform intelligible blows, the voice acting of the blows is very bad, and the main character moves worse than the extras (as, by the way, in “The Liberator”).
If you were doing some references, it came to mind "Six-String Samurai" with Jeffrey Falcon. There's still something from "Double Dragon" early Florentine films and a bunch of others, but Suarez didn’t want to eat just short bread, so what happened was what happened, although the director of the same “Samurai” Lance Mangia There was also a catastrophic lack of money.
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Tags: Kill Order, Plan B - Sheiss Auf Plan A, Reel Deal Action, The Danger Element, The Liberator, Alain Moussi, Ben Lettieri, Brian Ho, Gideon Burkhard, Doug Jones, Can Aydin, James Mark, John Suarez, Chris Mark, Mike Moeller, Martin Wang, Heidi Moneymaker, Julia Dietze
Tags: Kill Order, Plan B - Sheiss Auf Plan A, Reel Deal Action, The Danger Element, The Liberator, Alain Moussi, Ben Lettieri, Brian Ho, Gideon Burkhard, Doug Jones, Can Aydin, James Mark, John Suarez, Chris Mark, Mike Moeller, Martin Wang, Heidi Moneymaker, Julia Dietze
“Order to kill” - there are a ton of logical holes in the script and in what is happening, too, like how stormtroopers first destroy a room with machine guns, and then throw tear gas into it, or how they first fight at speeds sane for a person, and then switch to super acceleration, like this right away couldn't be done. But otherwise the film looks more expensive than it actually is. And the choreography, although nothing surprising, is better than many more expensive films. And despite the script, I somehow lost the hour and minutes that this film runs.
“Dangerous element”, on the contrary, looks cheaper than it is. Some kind of incomprehensible nonsense and well, screw it.
I haven’t watched Plan B yet, I’ve only seen the beginning, but judging by it, it’s a great tribute to old Hong Kong comedies. In this regard, it’s just excellent and I advise those who are nostalgic for such films to watch it.
SG Action showreels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX7PDxL49OM