The Man Fisting Iron

I haven't heard of Rza before. I see he had a part in GIJ, and I'm guessing he's a rapper or something. And an actor, writer and director, it seems. Although with varying success with this evidence.

There's a guy with spiky armour whose father was killed by Lions, who joins up with Russell Crowe who likes the ladies, and a blacksmith that joined the monks of blacksmithing. On the other side are the Lions, and a chap with a golden CGI body. There is also Lucy Lui and her female crazy 88s, and... a bunch of other people, I couldn't keep track. The problem with this movie is that there is a lot of different people thrown at you, with different skills, who having varying alliances, and...

The problem with this movie is that it is a lot of small set pieces with lots of action. But connecting them together produces a convoluted plot that is simplified only by lots of people dying, but since I don't know who any of them are, or what they have to do with the plot, it's hard to know if any of it matters.

There is quite the cast though. Aside from Rza, there is Rick Yune, Russell Crowe, Lucy Lui, Byron Mann.. and surprise Pam Grier! Eli Roth was also involved in this, and Quentin Tarantino... has his name presenting it.

This wants to be up there with full on kung fu epics with lots of action pieces and some humour and... it doesn't quite make it. It wants to... but no.

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