Having seen the first one, which I thought was an average film with some pretty sloppy editing in parts, this film came as a pleasant surprise.
PROS The H2H fighting scenes are good. Not an overabundance of jump cuts. The actions flows smoothly. The fighting moves look good. A few less high kicks would be good but it worked for me.
8/10
The humour. Somehow a lot of the humour in this actually landed for me. Scott made me chuckle in a few scenes with some fairly subtle delivery. No jokes but just reactions. Even the gang lady's son didn't bother me, and that character could definitely have been taken too far to the point of being incredibly annoying.
7/10
That one popped out eye. Wasn't really expecting Scott to pop out the eye of a lady he'd just been chatting it up with, even if she was trying to kill him. I couldn't help but laugh at the ridiculous amount of blood spray, too.
Funny/10
CONS Weapon-based combat. CGI blood splatters, a grenade going off in a guy's hands and just kind of knocking him back a bit. This was mostly rubbish. Totally made up for by the H2H stuff, though.
3/10
The special effects. The falling bathtub. The tasers to the neck? Anything like that looked awful. That final explosion. Oh no!
4/10
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN Characters. Scott's guy is cool in this. The son is fine. The girl who keeps trying to beat up Scott is all right. Actually, now that I think about it there were no characters in this that stood out as being particularly annoying or off-putting. So I'd put the characters closer to a PRO. Could have used a bit more Ayumi probably.
6/10
Story is fine. Nothing spectacular. Not that we expected anything spectacular. Ends satisfyingly enough.
6/10
CONCLUSION After reading some pretty negative reviews about this, I went in highly skeptical and in desperate need of something to watch after seeing the Weird Al Movie and Clerks III. I'd say for pure fun-factor and enjoyability this one at least came close to weird al, and far surpassed Clerks III. Not a bad result.
I give it a 7/10! Keep it up Scott!
PROS The H2H fighting scenes are good. Not an overabundance of jump cuts. The actions flows smoothly. The fighting moves look good. A few less high kicks would be good but it worked for me.
8/10
The humour. Somehow a lot of the humour in this actually landed for me. Scott made me chuckle in a few scenes with some fairly subtle delivery. No jokes but just reactions. Even the gang lady's son didn't bother me, and that character could definitely have been taken too far to the point of being incredibly annoying.
7/10
That one popped out eye. Wasn't really expecting Scott to pop out the eye of a lady he'd just been chatting it up with, even if she was trying to kill him. I couldn't help but laugh at the ridiculous amount of blood spray, too.
Funny/10
CONS Weapon-based combat. CGI blood splatters, a grenade going off in a guy's hands and just kind of knocking him back a bit. This was mostly rubbish. Totally made up for by the H2H stuff, though.
3/10
The special effects. The falling bathtub. The tasers to the neck? Anything like that looked awful. That final explosion. Oh no!
4/10
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN Characters. Scott's guy is cool in this. The son is fine. The girl who keeps trying to beat up Scott is all right. Actually, now that I think about it there were no characters in this that stood out as being particularly annoying or off-putting. So I'd put the characters closer to a PRO. Could have used a bit more Ayumi probably.
6/10
Story is fine. Nothing spectacular. Not that we expected anything spectacular. Ends satisfyingly enough.
6/10
CONCLUSION After reading some pretty negative reviews about this, I went in highly skeptical and in desperate need of something to watch after seeing the Weird Al Movie and Clerks III. I'd say for pure fun-factor and enjoyability this one at least came close to weird al, and far surpassed Clerks III. Not a bad result.
I give it a 7/10! Keep it up Scott!