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Maximum Impact (Paiaya Films)

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Paiaya plays the aptly named Agent X, whose latest mission is his most dangerous yet. He is sent to rescue Katie Tang (Raquel Paiaya), a security defense expert who has created a new software that uses encrypment technology. When a former agent, Pirani (Adam Davidson), kidnaps Katie to get his hands on the software, Agent X is sent to stop Pirani and his gang before it is too late.

For his fight sequences in MAXIMUM IMPACT, Ara Paiaya did a wonderful job choreographing what looks like at times, some very complex fight choreography. Paiaya has some impressive bootwork and in two highlight fights, he gets a worthy adversary who nearly matches him kick for kick. The final confrontation between these two takes place on top of a hill and Paiaya uses some of Jackie Chan's style that will look highly reminscent of his confrontation on the rooftop in WHO AM I? (1998).

Paiaya is more than the filmmaker, he performed all of his own dangerous stunts, including jumping on top of a car as it drives through a small cafe, something you may expect in perhaps a James Bond film, yet while Bond is always doubled. Here, Paiaya does the stunt himself and someone with the experience of a Vic Armstrong or Michel Julienne (car stunt coordinator expert) would be proud of the work Paiaya did with this particular stunt.