One Percenter

This one was a tough one to score... on paper it has everything to tick the right boxes but the poor execution of the fights was crucial to find itself in the mediocre range. Writer and director Yûdai Yamaguchi just chew a bite too big to swallow... so, at the end kept it in his mouth, I guess. For Tak Sakaguchi's performance... I have to say: very poor... he is known to be skilled in Bajiquan, Shaolin Kenpo, boxing, kick boxing, and mixed martial arts, and what he demonstrated here was just a choreography the main character in this film was so much against. If you are criticizing somthing, please, do it better ... or at least different...

Nice to see Tak with another one of his action flicks, this time about an Action star actor that struggles with working alongside the film industry's crew on an action scene, fed up of all the exaggerated fantasy fights that's in trend, he took it upon himself to pitch his semi-realistic action flick to many of the top directors (ironically called One-percenter), his character also practices the art of Zero-range combat along with his past film, Re: Born. His character negotiated with the director to film at the abandoned warehouse as the film's location for his next flick, coincidently his former film crew turned rivals were using the same location along with the militarised Yakuza chasing down a mob leader's daughter in the same location, this is where thing's kick off and Tak takes advantage of the situation to turn this action flick into a reality and asked his trusty side-kick to film the whole thing. At first the film could've worked, but unfortunately the plot was pretty simple, although the action sequence was cool, at least more unarmed fights in this film compared to Re: Born, but I feel like Re: Born was better in plot. I also notice you won't be seeing Tak using a knife in this film, but he utilises other objects as weapons. Overall: This film isn't spectacular, but it does have it's moments in the action sequences and funny support characters.