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Pound of Flesh (2015)

R  |   |  Action, Thriller  |  5 June 2015 (Vietnam)
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A man's heroic attempt to help a woman in distress ends up with him waking up the next day without a kidney and plotting his revenge.

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A man's heroic attempt to help a woman in distress ends up with him waking up the next day without a kidney and plotting his revenge.

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Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality | See all certifications »

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Fight & Stunt choreographer John Salvitti is a longtime mainstay of Donnie Yen's fight team, a lifelong martial artist who began his film career with Donnie & Yuen Woo-ping. See more »

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In the nightclub (at around 23 mins) the brother picks up the book. When Deacon looks at his brother, the book is still on the ground. See more »

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Deacon: What I'm really good at is killing
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A disappointing, under-whelming second collaboration between Van Damme/Barbarash
26 September 2015 | by (United Kingdom) – See all my reviews

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

Deacon (Jean Claude Van Damme) has travelled to Eastern Europe to donate a kidney to his dying niece. Only the night before, after a night of passion with a mysterious woman, he awakens to find what he was planning to donate already removed with no explanation. His brother, and niece's father George (John Ralston) is unaccepting of this, and along with Kung (Aki Aleong), Deacon's right hand man, they set about trying to track down the guilty party who have taken Deacon's organ without his consent.

The dark, moody tone that has been permeating Van Damme's work for about the middle of the last decade continues with Pound of Flesh, his second collaboration with director Ernie Barbarash after 2011's excellent Assassination Games. Maintaining that film's dark, raw veneer, the plot is impressively different and inventive, honing in on a theme not usually explored in action, but sadly, this is where the praise pretty much runs dry.

While the delivery is as brutal as AG, this time Barbarash hasn't managed to craft quite as engaging a story, punctuated with long, dull stretches between any exciting action. He's somewhat older now, and VD's physical prowess obviously isn't as impressive as it once was, with his side kicks now looking a little less than thrillingly authentic. He appears to be trying to explore a more dramatic angle now, and as such the film doesn't develop in the normal style of such films, but this is hardly what you're watching it for.

It's got some good things going for it, but on the whole, it's a bit of a let down when you think what went before. **


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