Why So Blu?

The director's cut for SP was cool. I hated the PG-13 version, though.

hanshotfirst1138

He was one of the swimming pool fighters in Danny the Dog/Unleashed as well, its seems like he gets the chance to be the lead in DTV stuff, but in big-budget stuff, he's regulated to a stunt guy.

Even back in the action genre's heyday, there weren't many. Outside of Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng, Cyntha Rothrock, and maybe Sarah Connor or Ripley, maybe Pam Grier back in the 70s. Maybe you could make a case for The Long Kiss Goodnight back in the 90s.

Well, of course there's The Hunger Games franchise, or James Cameron's pseudo-feminist characters like Ripley or Sarah Conner. or Beckinsale in the Underworld movies, they did spin a franchise out of that. Or Kill Bill, but that's because of Tarantino. But of course, action movies are for boys and romantic comedies are for girls. There can't be audience crossover, right? Surely, we must gear these movies as squarely at the demographic as possible, otherwise, we might alienate them! They aren't intelligent enough!

That era is long gone. The Transporter did OK business in theaters, but it was cable and especially video which made it the big cult favorite it became, it was basically a DTV movie with step up production values, and since the video market is dead now, Satham is lucky he hit the sweet spot. On that subject, is the French Blu-Ray trilogy boxed set uncut? Nearly all of those guys, whether they're newcomers like Adkins of mainstays like Van Damme are going direct to video now. The market is gone. And the reason it's probably moved there is that kind of big-budget stuff that's the bread and butter now has so much CG that it's not the kind of thing you can do with a small budget, whereas especially with digital techniques, it's easier to do old-style action flicks DTV. Some aren't too bad. Adkins' Ninja: Shadow of Tear was shot digitally on Red, and it looks OK for a movies of its type, and the action scenes are nice and punchy.

DJariya

I'll rent this when it comes to Redbox or my local video store.

I like Carano's fighting skills from what I've seen of her, but yes her acting is weak.

I personally enjoy watching a lot of straight to video action movies depending on who the lead is and this looks decent.

dex14

I finally got around to watching this. If you like Stockwell's other movie, Turistas, you would probably like the concept behind this.

It was decent. It was not action packed like I would hope for a Carano driven film. A few fights here and there, but the story didn't lend itself to too much over the top action. Her acting was somewhat improved over her other efforts though.

Osiris3657

I saw it awhile back. I thought the acting was pretty horrendous and the movie felt every bit the straight to video title that it is...but I was entertained enough to give it 3 stars on Netflix.