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Underground (2006) |
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I'm not sure what the budget was for the film Underground, but considering the quality of the production and the fact that the DVD sleeve mentions that it's distributed by Warner Brothers / Electra / Atlantic Inc., I suspect that it's not as independently produced as most of the films that I review here at Film Apocalypse. Usually the movies featured here are made by people who are completely outside of the Hollywood system; they're made by people who don't make a dime from creating these films and who probably end up spending a lot of their own money to making movies just for the love of it. Still, Underground was sent to me for review and since I haven't seen it in any stores and I didn't recognize most of actors, I'm going to review it even though it probably isn't quite as low budget as most of the films featured here. |
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It stars a bunch of stuntmen, actors and fighters, some of whom are from big budget action movies. For example, one of the fighters in Underground is played by Joey Ansah. Ansah played Desh in The Bourn Ultimatum. One of the actors who played a League of Shadows warrior in Batman Begins fights in Underground. The film also features British actor Danny John-Jules who was in Blade II and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but who is most famous (at least in the UK) for playing the cat on the long running British sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. The quality of the
filming, the audio, the editing and basically all of the technical
aspects of this film are all major studio quality. The acting is
professional as well. But what I can't emphasize enough is just
how great the fight scenes are and this movie is really all about the
fight scenes.
Gore-o-meter rating: 2 out of 5 (not really much gore, but the action would be a 5 out of 5) Skin-o-meter: 0 out of 5 (no nudity)
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