Pre Vis Action (2016) User Reviews

A decent but not very impressive short film by Gareth Evans

[andrasulthan · 6/10 · 7 April 2023]

I watched Pre Vis Action on Youtube and it was decent. It's a short film by Gareth Evans, who made The Raid movies. He also wrote and filmed it. It has three people fighting in a forest with swords and knives. They are Yayan Ruhian, Cecep Arif Rahman and Hannah Al Rashid. They are skilled fighters and actors.

The film is in black and white and there is no talking, only music and sounds. The music is fine and suits the mood. The sounds are loud and realistic. The film is humorous sometimes, like when the fighters look at the camera or smile. It makes me smile.

The film is not a real movie, it's just a test for a bigger movie maybe. It's not very impressive, it's just for fun. But it's not very fun either. The fights are fast and hard, and the camera moves a lot. The fighters do amazing things like jumping and rolling and kicking. They look like they are really hurting each other.

Pre Vis Action is a short film for people who like action and martial arts. It shows how Gareth Evans can make action scenes. I didn't enjoy it much, because it was too short and not very deep. The story is lacking depth and explanation. I don't know why they are fighting or who they are. I would give it 6.5 out of 10 stars.

5 minutes of sword fighting

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 8 December 2016]

"Pre Vis Action" is a live action short film from this year (2016) and in the months since its release on Youtube, it actually managed to gain a whole lot of clicks on the world's biggest video website. The reason may be that the writer and director of this black-and-white film is Gareth Evans from Wales, a man who has made several fairly successful films over the last decade, some of them similar to this one in style and subject. The lead actress here is Hannah Al Rashid and we see her go up against several assassins. It is probably not too surprising that there is no character development or anything other than the fighting because it is such a short movie. I myself still would have liked to know who the main character is in order to cheer for her. She could always be one of the bad guys you know. I guess the unfair battle system (2 vs. 1) is supposed to tell us she is a good character and we should hope she wins. But honestly, I never really did as much as I would have liked. I think this film is a bit of style over substance. It may work as part of a film, but as a film itself, it is not a success. Thumbs-down. Not recommended.