Left For Dead Movie Review:

Firstly let me say that I have always been a huge fan of martial arts movies... from when I saw The Big Boss when I was just seven through to
Jackie Chan, Jet Li and beyond. Hell I even sat through and enjoyed US movies such as American Ninja through China O'Brien... well you get the
point.

So when I heard that a UK martial arts film had been produced, I was far from excited. After all in the past most UK film efforts have been, well
dubious to say the least. After all not only was it British but low-budget? I couldn’t help but think this was going to be bad…

However being from Brighton and having heard of Big Cat Productions (the team behind L4D) through local news and radio, I thought hey I’ll give it a
chance. An open screening in a posh venue… that little old liger side of me couldn’t help but jump at the chance…

The first thing I noticed was, that whilst the film had it’s flaws, the pace and more importantly the script and action sequences were way better than I
was expecting. The film shot along at a rollicking pace and the near 100 mins running time seemed almost half that.

And whilst the story is a basic revenge plot; guy betrayed by bad guys, guy sets about getting revenge kind of deal, the dialogue and performances were way better than they deserved to be…

The cast, made up mainly of bit part actors and performers from film like A Better Tomorrow 2, Baby Juice Express, Distant Shadow, Queens Messenger and the like all looked like they were having fun and the two leads, Prior and
Salvage, looked very comfortable carry a film like this. The bad guy quota was enjoyable also – characters like Kincaid, Dillon and a frankly scary
turn by Adrian Foiadelli as Taylor lit up the screen… most certainly not the kind of people I’d want to run into in a dark alley way.

Speaking to the producer afterwards he mentioned they were going for a Fist Of Fury meets Point Blank feel– a gritty action film that just happened to
have martial arts in it… and that was pretty much the case.

The set pieces were well above average, in fact bloody good in places, and this film can most certainly hold it’s own up there with its bigger counter parts.

The film suffered from a lack of money in places but seeing what was achieved gives you hope that maybe someone, somewhere is actually making
films in the UK that people are going to enjoy over a beer and a curry which, quite frankly, is the kind of film I look for on Saturday night!

Paul Williams

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