monodactylus Review of Kill Zone

Kill Zone (2005)

OK, action, poor dialog, nice concept until I realized...

[3/10 · 14 March 2009]

Perhaps something was lost in the English translation, but the dialog for the movie was terrible. Character developments were weak at best. The beginning of the movie attempts to produce too much of a background too quickly. Either this movie should have been longer or stuff should have been left out. The scenes regarding Simon's cancer looked forced. Then you jump from the hospital to a cop ramming the back of a gangsters car? Are you serious? There's gotta be a better way to show animosity and hatred between the two characters than to just all of a sudden jumping to one guy ramming the other. Also, when Simon yanks his goddaughter away from Sammo in the hospital it was with force. She was silent. Seeing kids yanked like that before especially girls there'd be some kind of noise. The concept for the movie was interesting at first until I realized it looked similar to Training Day and The Corrupter which were both made earlier. The action is probably slightly better than I've seen in some recent martial arts movies. It was amusing to see Donnie attempt to look like he was an eskrimador with the baton. It's been a long time since I've seen Sammo in a movie. Definitely a different roll for him from what I've seen of him. Although I haven't seen him in a movie in at least 20 years.