Jiu Jitsu 2020 by AverageMansReviews

Jiu Jitsu 2020 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/stabbing/regeneration/impaling/cutting/choking/drugs/burning/medical

Once every 6 years this situation happens: basically  Jake Barnes [Alain Moussi:] now it wasn't established that he had amnesia, but I am going to say he had some form of amnesia; as he can't remember what he is meant to be doing. But on his with other characters; we meet Wylie [Nicholas Cage:] let's just say he is a mixture between a sage character and a character that will say it as it is; as this Predator type of character is hunting them.

Generally speaking: the script/storyline is straightforward but also with a thin, the framework and pacing of this 102 minutes film is either really slow without the action sequences or it has clearly some get up and go to it in the action sequences

Art and action; well from the opening credits sequence and throughout from time to time; we get this captivating opening credits and we get this comic book storyboard approach; like I said to the person to watch some of this content with " It is easy to see where they spend the budget." On a quick side note the budget was $25 million with an embarrassing box office taking of slightly less than $100,000. But I digress; this wasn't the only place where they spend in my opinion a good amount of the budget; it would have to been where we have Barnes fighting in these long action sequences where; this sequence rotates from first person shooter/combat sequence to usual standing watching things unfold but then go back to first person shooter perspective/combat perspective; the imagination and high creativity has to be given praise and not forgetting Cage in his action sequences.

Character developments, performances and comedy; like to the script it may be straightforward, but there isn't much; this character types are; what you see is what you get and their performances reflect that. Cage as Wylie: puts in a good performance, but let me just say when Cage puts in a good performance; it is comfortably strong enough to stick out like a sore thumb; as if you didn't know who he was you could guess that he could shift it up another gear if you really wanted to and from time to time he has moment of being comical which is much better than what Tex [Eddie Steeples:] basically he is a member of this unique that one of his apparent skills is to be an interpreter, but as you'll see he doesn't always get it right and if you were around in the early 2000's especially in the genre of comedy; you will be familiar with African-American character types having this mixture of dimwit but coming over as someone from the streets that kind of dialogue which being polite it hasn't aged that well considering this film was released in 2020.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; I mean this film was difficult to mark, just based on they really have this well thought out comic book outlay to this project and the same can be said for the first person combat perspective as I have already indicated, so if it wasn't because of these assets including Cage which I should give you a little heads up; he makes his appearance at roughly the 40th minute of this film title, so if there are any fans of him out there in Internet land take a look at this film, but I would keep your expectations reasonably low. But as I was saying because this title has all this I decided to award another mark even though I was struggling to keep awake.