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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Bloody Violent ... Bloody good fun
Know of this film from reading Impact magazine in the UK, bought a copy when I went over to the States this week
Being a fan of Left For Dead all I can say is Wow! 10 Dead Men is well wicked
much better than Left For Dead (which I liked a lot also). If you like bloody over the top action movies that are just relentlessly violent from start to finish then this is the film for you.
Brendan Car is rock hard scary and even Lee from UK band Steps is pretty good. It's got Silvio Simac (Transporter 3), Pooja Shah (Eastenders) and loads of faces from Brit films and TV such as Chris Jones, Glenn Salvage, Terry Stone and more.
This is a well wicked movie that any action fan should watch.
Left for Dead (2005)
Oh Yes! This is More Like It...
Thank god for Amazon. Their recommendations meant that whilst I bought the risible Purifiers, I also managed to get a copy of this far superior feature film.
WIlliams is an Assassin. kelso a kickboxer. Betrayed by crime over lord Kincaid they team up and kick some serious butt.
Lead Salvage does a solid job (any one else think he reminds them of Segal?) and new comer Andy Prior was very good as the role of the young Kelso.
But its the bad guys that excel here. From Adam Chapman's Kincaid to Adrian Foiadelli's Taylor, the bad guys add real menace.
But the action. Oh the action. I guess this is where these films live and die. And unlike other UK action (ahem!) film The Purfifiers (which shares many of the same cast and crew) this film had action in spades.
Okay maybe too much action at times but this film, which I read online was made for under $25k (the same as clerks) has more action that you can shake an action shaped stick at.
And death toll. At least 200 people die, and in reality maybe closer to 300.
This is a violent, dangerous film. And a joy to watch. For a film that offered little (low budget, no stars, first time director etc) it delivered far more than The Purfifiers and it's million $ budget, Lord Of The Rings star and ex-rock star director.
Def worth the money!
The Purifiers (2004)
'Purifiers' vs 'Left For Dead'
Got this film along with a couple of other direct to DVD martial arts films.
This film showed great promise but, alas, it sucked. The cast were good but most of the most talented guys seemed under used and McKidd and the hobbit were seriously miscast (come on guys cast fighters as fighters not actors as fighters and fighters as actors).
The biggest flaw about this was it's use of slow motion... god if they'd taken all that out the film would have been 5 mins long!!! Everything about this film is wrong... the direction, casting, shots, production... it just feels cheap and fake.
Strangely I ordered another UK action film at the same time that shared cast members like Gordon Alexander, Brendan Carr, Chirs Jones, Ashley Beck, Oliver Hollis and others called 'Left For Dead'. Whilst that has a seriously reduced budget in comparison, for all it's faults, it was head and shouters above this piece of tosh! 'Left For Dead' used the action stars to the best of their abilities and whilst the Purifiers attempted to rip of the Warriors (and looked cheap doing it) 'Left For Dead' ripped off everything from payback, Fist Of Fury and others and whilst it does occasionally look cheap at least the story, action and way it embraced its budget far exceeded this film.
I rated 'Left For Dead' as a 8 whilst this gets a 2. What does this mean? Occasionally all you need is talent, invention and excitement rather than budget, names and sloooooooooooow moooootiiiiioooon! In brief : if your gunna watch one Uk martial arts film this year don't get this. get 'Left For Dead'.