Kiltro (2006)

So I was stumped on deciding on what to review, so I asked Simon to give something from what he calls "The Random Movie Box" and what he gave me was a Chilean Martial Art movie. This proves Chilean can do Martial Art, but they can't just make a good movie about it.

Kiltro is about Zamir who is the leader of the Kiltros, he spends the majority of his time obsessing over the pretty schoolgirl, Kim, he saved a while back. A villain named Max Kalba is hell-bent on a mission to seek vengeance against Kim's father and it's up to Kiltro to stop him. The beginning of movie started out promising with a plot that was believable, unfortunately around the 30 minutes it took a deep plunge in quality and became bad and very ridiculous very quickly. The plot doesn't have a good balance of action and drama, once you get through the first two action sequences you have to wait like an hour until you see another. This wouldn't be a problem if the story was interesting, and by that I mean the flashbacks scene feel so out of place. A good portion of the movie is nothing back flashback which adds nothing new to the story, they just reiterate the same thing over and over in every flashback. Now there are some good lines of dialogue in the movie which is a shame because the story isn't exactly memorable and won't exactly do anything to convince the viewer to invest there time.

Now since this movie is from Chile I didn't expect much, but they perform at the same level as Asians Martial Art stars. Every action sequences, except for the disappointing final battle, are all done well and look very convincing. Though what I didn't like was the animated blood. Now I have nothing against special effect in a Martial Art movie, but it looks very cartonnish here. The last battle like I said before is disappointing, you think for a movie that spends allot of time building up the climax you expect something spectacular. Nope, what you get is a slow and unconvincing final battle. The actors were all great, especially Marko Zaror (Kiltro) who's Martial Art ability are incredible, to bad we don't see enough of those ability to good use as his acting isn't the best in the movie.

Now I truly think Chilean can do Martial Art, with a little more focus on better stories Chile will be able to compete against Asia in Martial Art. Until that movie comes out I suggest you look elsewhere because you won't find anything worth remembering in this movie.