Joshua (Ving Rhames) is the current champion and is seriously in a bad mood due to the fact that the individual who killed his wife is taking part in the contest. Add also a beautiful ass kicker played by Kelly Hu, LOST’s Ian Somerhalder, Robert Carlyle playing a drunken priest, Liam Cunningham playing the evil controller of the game and who have a pretty varied cast.
Suffice to say, the film is full of explosions, fights, gun play and a great chase involving a bus and a lorry. What’s nice to see is that debuting director Scott Mann certainly knows his action films and pulls off some great set pieces utlising his cast’s skills.
The film isn’t that original but it is a incredibly entertaining hour and a half, full of violence and with good performances especially from Kelly Hu (why isn’t she in more?) and Ian Somerhalder stealing the entire film as a sociopathic scumbag who shoots innocent strippers!
- Starring Ving Rhames Kelly Hu Robert Carlyle Ian Somerhalder
- Directed by Scott Mann
- Distributor Entertainment
