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Full Impact

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

B-Action martial arts actor Gary Daniels (City Hunter, Bloodmoon, White Tiger) stars in Full Impact, and is honestly my only reason for checking out this film. If this were the first film of his I had seen I would not be all that impressed. While Daniels supplies the movie with plenty of fight action, the fights never awed me one bit - even for a B movie. As for the movie itself, ugh, I don't think it could have ended fast enough, however, I am pleased to say it actually got better as the film progrssed, for whatever that's worth.

Daniels stars as Jared - a former cop now bounty hunter. Already on everyone's bad side at the station, it only escalates when Daniels gets involved in solving the mystery behind a new killer on the loose. I actually was determined to finish the movie to discover who the killer was, though it wasn't too difficult of a guess however it made for an interesting final showdown between he and Jared.

When the movie began I already knew I was in for a long and boring ride once the cheesy credits began to roll as Gary Daniels posed with a gun and practiced some katas in the street. The dialouge, acting, and characters were about as bad as a B movie could get, and the fights weren't that much better, even though there was quite a variety from ally fights, street fights, club fights, ring fights and warehouse fights. The choreography stunk and half the time sound effects were way off. Gary Daniels displayed a few nice kicks that he is capable of, but still limted to what I've seen in his other films. Fortunately the final fight was good, well, at least compared to what most of the movie had to offer. It lasts a surprising 9 minutes, though half of it was composed of running and chasing around town.

It took everything I had to sit through this movie straight through, but things got a bit better as time went along. The fights improved as did the story, but in the end I can't say I have any desire to watch this again. Check out some of Daniel's much better B movies such as Bloodmooon, Rage, White Tiger or Deadly Target.

Acting - 1.5
Action - 2.5
Characters - 1.5
Story - 2
Overall - 2

I am a really big fan of Gary Daniels. I liked the Martial Arts in this movie. But I have to give it a Three. I will now tell you why. That is because they said it was a second movie to American Streetfighter starring Gary Daniels. Number One it is wrong. Number two it had different people in this one. Number Three it had a totally different story to this. It was saying he was a cop, and he was divorced, and thought his child was dead to a accident. The way he talked the kid was just born. Four, this is where the American Streetfighter is totally different from Full Impact and Full Impact cannot be a second movie to it. The First one, Gary Daniels runs, but comes back to save his brother, and he finds out about his son mainly finds out he is a father and his son is already a teenager. Five, this child has not even reached Five years old. Finally, Someone who knows movies Like I do tell me how this is a second movie to American Streetfighter, only thing both has Gary Daniels being the star but it is no American Streetfighter 2 it is its on movie.
But I liked the martial arts, I thought Gary Daniels did a excellent Job in what he was doing, I just cannot rate it a four or Five what I would have Liked to have done basically it was not a second movie to American Streetfighter. I would suggest if anyone likes Gary Daniels Movies they should buy it and I think they would like it if they are into Martial Arts movies Like I do watching them.

Action Star Gary Daniels is back in the sequal to the American Streetfighter. This film is NOT available in Canada. If you have questions please call the films producer and distributor at 1-800-906-4749. ~Screen Pix Home Video