90 min Netflix: "Skin Trade" As Good as the Duran Duran Song

I know I have seen some incredibly sloppy Thai films while flipping through the Starz Encore networks, but if you make it a point to find a flick from this country, it is tough to be disappointed. That is my experience with the food as well. The spice is the action. Yeah, there are a lot of vegetables that I despise, but it is worth digging through them for the hot noodles and meat. It can be a long process (finding the film), but definitely worth a look.

With that said, I have to overlook the critics and give Tony Jaa's sequels a chance. After "Skin Trade", he is batting three-for-three with me (the other two being "The Protector" and "Ong-bak") in terms of potential IP. The latest experience is at least an extra base hit driving Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, and Ron Perlman in. Peter Weller is the sacrifice to bring Jaa home.

 

Viktor Dragovic's (Perlman) sex trafficking trade has taken a major hit. Not only did his last shipment to Newark end up being just a pile of corpses, but maverick cop Nick Cassidy (Lundgren) ended up killing his youngest son. But with diplomatic ties with Russia and his two remaining capable sons, he is able to claim sanctuary in Cambodia and gain two-times the vengeance by killing Cassidy's wife and teenage daughter.

It is reasonable to think that an RPG to the face would prevent Cassidy from making their grudge match a best of three, but this guy is not Ivan Drago. Waking to a scarred face only motivates him to kill any diplomat and attorney who let Dragovic flee. Shooting up a restaurant is regarded as taking the law into one's own hands, so FBI Agent Reed (White) heads to Thailand to stop Cassidy from creating an international incident that can destroy Detective Tony Vitayakul's (Jaa) efforst to shut down Dragovic's operation at the source. Unbeknownst to Reed, Tony's own experience with the Dracovics may make Cassidy an ideal ally. Viktor is guaranteed to come face-to-face with his karma.

I know sci-fi/horror fans complain about the lack of practical effects with the emergence of CG. Personally, my loathing of computers comes from straight-to-video action movies (see "The Girl from the Naked Eye"). If "Skin Trade" had a few real explosions, this film would have necessitated the US theatrical distribution Jaa versus White deserves.

The story is everything you wanted in a pre-peaked Seagal action film. Lundgren, Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder's script has holes  and a heavy-handed message to drive the film (like "On Deadly Ground" with the environment), but it delivers two uncompromising heroes that do not think twice about executing pure evil and its idiot henchmen. I mean, the ads for that job must imply evil, so you cannot be innocent after that "welcome aboard" meeting.

By simplifying the skin trade to saving girls (do not think about the intricacies and the sex in trafficking's), you get a pretty straight forward action flick. The post effects suck and the Ekachai Vekrongtham's direction is frantic with the cuts during some brilliant fight scenes. As long a you dig the choreography, this flick is a winner.

If you had "Punisher" level gore and a Nathan Jones cameo (just to make this bonified Thai gem), any action aficionado would run to Red Box to watch "Skin Trade". If only the Champaign COOP theater was still in operation and the name was not "The Art", this would be worth a six-dollar admission and some cheap drinks.

Equating this Lundgren-penned script to post "Arena" Duran Duran nails how to describe "Skin Trade". It is not his best, but if you are a fan and need to forget "4 Got 10" (like Power Station for you DD fans), this flick fills you 80's nostalgia needs.

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NinetyForChill - The #Podcast: Kumite in L.A - Bloodsport and Showdown in Little Tokyo

      

NinetyForChill.com: The Podcast

Episode 28: Kumite in L.A - "Bloodsport" and "Showdown in Little Tokyo"

(A double feature that provides the meth and sushi girls that the JCVD's film was missing).

Gregory Carl is about to set the podcast world on fire with his upcoming Jean-Claude Van Damme podcast, so he was more than welcomed to talk action movies on this pod. I did not want to tread to much on his expertise, so we talked about what I consider to be the greatest DVD two-pack, "Bloodsport" and "Showdown in Little Tokyo".

I do my best to suggest that these two features are in the same cinematic universe, but the action styles could not be more different. The Cannon Group does their best to provide a realistic tournament fighter feature while "Commando" director Mark L. Lester provides the lite version of the one man army with Dolph Lundgren. "Showdown" also provides the buddy cop dynamic (and takes it to the ultimate extreme) that Forrest Whitaker and Norman Burton lacked in the Van Damme movie.

We go on a few tangents, but what do you expect when you are discussing a "true story" about Frank Dux, the most legitimate conman that I have seen. The most unrelated would be a chat about the limited influence "Joker" will have. There is also some borderline obscene investigation into the relationship that Brandon Lee's second-billed character has with Lundgren's lead.

For a first time meeting, I think Gregory and I hit it off pretty well. Talking about Dux's legitimacy ends up exploring our personalities. As a former fighter, we get to hear me measure up guys while he is satisfied with stories about New Jack and hearing about the importance of Gary Daniels in the movie career of the Ultimate Warrior.

Like the Warrior, NinetyForChill - The Podcast is moving forward with reckless abandon. Next week, 2002's "Stealing Harvard" will be revisited. I remember it being fun, but there just seemed to be something off about the feature. Perhaps its Jason Lee and Tom Green, two perpetual movie supporting actors, attempting to carry a feature.

My scheduled guest seems a little more optimistic about this film's quality. Thankfully, they just want to focus on this feature instead of the limited prime of Green's career. I really appreciate not needing to revisit "Freddy Got Fingered", but I am itching to view "Road Trip" once again. I just love me some Breckin Meyer.

I would not mind being a couples week ahead when it comes to content, so I would love to hear from you with ideas on what to chat about. Frankly, it would be honor to host you and find out about why you offered your incite. Send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com with a movie, theme, director, or actor. If you promise to center the topic around movies between 74 and 99 minutes, audio gold should be the product.

 

If you need some suggestions, movies like "Fear of a Black Hat", "UHF" and "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" can make for a great theme. ThePoeticCritic knew that Robert Downey Sr.'s satirical masterpiece, "Putney Swope" fits the pod's time restraints. There are also Tim Burton's early classics "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" and "Beetlejuice". Or we could just focus on movies Danny Elfman scored.

 

I have been asking for weeks for assistance in composing an episode dedicated to vampire features like "The Lost Boys" trilogy, "Near Dark", and the "Underworld" movies. Here is to hoping that this bunch of critiques will stir up some inspiration in my audience to step up and hold off on the garlic. If this is a topic you up for discussing, feel free to send an email to russthebus07@gmail.com. All I need is a half hour on Zoom to get this done. 

 

I hope I am impressing or at the very least amusing you with this podcast and I am open to any and all criticism. My biggest want is more guests and more suggestions on what to chat about (@catbusruss, russthebus07@gmail.com@coolmoviesdarth). If we can get 3 hours out of "Little Nicky", the possibilities are endless. Thanks for visiting.

 

After WrestleMania Backlash, I will tell you that we need to take zombie pro wrestling back. My suggestion is that we finally get my low-budget zombie movie, "Main Event of the Dead" off the ground. The script lacks a lumberjack match, so you know it has got to be better than the "Army of the Dead" advertisement. Ask for a treatment or give me suggestions on how to get it to a crowd-sourcing stage with an email to russthebus07@gmail.com.

 

 

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90 min. Netflix "4 Got 10": Once Upon a Time with Zero Whimsey

 

a.k.a. "The Good, the Bad and the Dead"

It is a lot of work, but you need to do a little research once you say to yourself, "This could be fun." If a film has two titles, skip it. This will require both IMDb and Wikipedia, but until WWE licenses a Bray Wyatt montage before Nefllix's direct to DVD acquisitions, how will you know when to run.

Dated Wrestling Rant:

And that's how you increase your shareholders profits Vince McMahon. If you take that money and buy the "Broken Universe" from Anthem, the stock might result in a $1 dividend. GFW will survive as well. Preventing bad Dolph Lundgren flicks from being viewed is best for business.

Back to a tale of Wasting of Danny Trejo:

It is obvious a drug deal has gone bad. A used car parking lot (if not a car lot, a lot with a Martin Luther King Blvd address) with a corpse for each bumper serves as an homage to the desert standard "No Country for Old Men" set. Adding title cards for each archetype is usually the indications of an action flick with clever ambitions. Unfortunately, there is no witty dialogue when the sheriff (Michael Pare) shoots his deputy to go James Brolin on us only to receive a life-threatening shot to the ear from an amnesiac survivor (Johnny "Eric Young should have best cast" Messner). To keep the audience thinking, director Timothy Woodard Jr (who seems to have taken inspiration stylistically from Uwe Boll) is going to use a twist for every scene.

The primary twist is not the amnesia gimmick, it is the fact that the dead deputy is the rebellious son of Mateo Perez (Danny Motherlov'n Trejo), the biggest drug dealer the DEA has ever known. Perez will be on a quest for vengeance, the sheriff is out to save his own neck, and Rooker (Lungren) is trying to put the pieces together. With so many supporting players, the clueless amnesiac is suppose to hold the film together. Too bad there is not the necessary nudity or action sequences to amuse us on his quest to regain his memory.

"4 Got 10" has a shorter plot synopsis than "Death Squad", so that means it will be less painful. If you can endure the first 70 minutes, where only three rounds are fired, you will be rewarded with "MST3K" worthy, slow-motion-dependent action sequences. You may never curse Zack Snyder again. #releasethesnydercut

Woodward must have been desperate to avoid this film from being labeled a short. The overuse of slo-mo is so bad that you can see the stuntman's flammable gel before he goes up in smoke while still holding his own in a fire fight. If the humor was more than Lundgren digging through a truck stop trash can, we could have had a so bad it is good film.

"4 Got 10" is evidence that all screenwriters should follow the page a minute rule. If Sean Ryan did this, there would have been no reward in sitting through this garbage. Hence, it would not have been made. With that said, try googling "Danny Trejo slow-mo gun fight" and you may receive the fruit of this labor without wasting so much time.

Perhaps "4 Got 10" is the Li'l Bub of bad movies. No, that is probably "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" which is part of Netflix's "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return." Netflix has you taken care of regardless.

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90 min Netflix: "Skin Trade" As Good as the Duran Duran Song

I know I have seen some incredibly sloppy Thai films while flipping through the Starz Encore networks, but if you make it a point to find a flick from this country, it is tough to be disappointed. That is my experience with the food as well. The spice is the action. Yeah, there are a lot of vegetables that I despise, but it is worth digging through them for the hot noodles and meat. It can be a long process (finding the film), but definitely worth a look.

With that said, I have to overlook the critics and give Tony Jaa's sequels a chance. After "Skin Trade", he is batting three-for-three with me (the other two being "The Protector" and "Ong-bak") in terms of potential IP. The latest experience is at least an extra base hit driving Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, and Ron Perlman in. Peter Weller is the sacrifice to bring Jaa home.

Viktor Dragovic's (Perlman) sex trafficking trade has taken a major hit. Not only did his last shipment to Newark end up being just a pile of corpses, but maverick cop Nick Cassidy (Lundgren) ended up killing his youngest son. But with diplomatic ties with Russia and his two remaining capable sons, he is able to claim sanctuary in Cambodia and gain two-times the vengeance by killing Cassidy's wife and teenage daughter.

It is reasonable to think that an RPG to the face would prevent Cassidy from making their grudge match a best of three, but this guy is not Ivan Drago. Waking to a scarred face only motivates him to kill any diplomat and attorney who let Dragovic flee. Shooting up a restaurant is regarded as taking the law into one's own hands, so FBI Agent Reed (White) heads to Thailand to stop Cassidy from creating an international incident that can destroy Detective Tony Vitayakul's (Jaa) efforst to shut down Dragovic's operation at the source. Unbeknownst to Reed, Tony's own experience with the Dracovics may make Cassidy an ideal ally. Viktor is guaranteed to come face-to-face with his karma.

I know sci-fi/horror fans complain about the lack of practical effects with the emergence of CG. Personally, my loathing of computers comes from straight-to-video action movies (see "The Girl from the Naked Eye"). If "Skin Trade" had a few real explosions, this film would have necessitated the US theatrical distribution Jaa versus White deserves.

The story is everything you wanted in a pre-peaked Seagal action film. Lundgren, Gabriel Dowrick and Steven Elder's script has holes  and a heavy-handed message to drive the film (like "On Deadly Ground" with the environment), but it delivers two uncompromising heroes that do not think twice about executing pure evil and its idiot henchmen. I mean, the ads for that job must imply evil, so you cannot be innocent after that "welcome aboard" meeting.

By simplifying the skin trade to saving girls (do not think about the intricacies and the sex in trafficking's), you get a pretty straight forward action flick. The post effects suck and the Ekachai Vekrongtham's direction is frantic with the cuts during some brilliant fight scenes. As long a you dig the choreography, this flick is a winner.

If you had "Punisher" level gore and a Nathan Jones cameo (just to make this bonified Thai gem), any action aficionado would run to Red Box to watch "Skin Trade". If only the Champaign COOP theater was still in operation and the name was not "The Art", this would be worth a six-dollar admission and some cheap drinks.

Equating this Lundgren-penned script to post "Arena" Duran Duran nails how to describe "Skin Trade". It is not his best, but if you are a fan and need to forget "4 Got 10" (like Power Station for you DD fans), this flick fills you 80's nostalgia needs.

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https://filmcombatsyndicate.com/watch-kick-ass-new-thai-trailer-for/