A movie with cast like this should not have turned like that !! it looks so cheap , even though i bet the budget was in tens of millions ,, i mean even the fight scenes were so old ,, and to be fair there were a couple of scenes like in the end for instance were it got a bit of real action/thrill but other than that the script was all over the place ,, i mean the plot was clear but to reach the ending it was torture.

The cast was good, A listers ,, but Russell Crowe's scenes at the beginning got a bit weird and so over and unnecessarily ... weird !!! but i think that goes to the script too ,, Lucy Liu had the same issue ,, RZA "the man with iron fist" didn't really pop up until the far end ..

wouldn't say recommended at all :(

This movie had the potential to be good...Like the violence but it was lacking something. Got to start somewhere...Let this be a learning curve...

This is easily the worst movie I've ever watched. And I have watched a ton of cheap kung-fu flicks, and they are, despite their low production, shallow story lines and predictable plots, waaaaaay better than this... movie.

First of all - the plot is horrible. It's just so incredibly dumb. It makes sense that rap "artist" is behind this wreck, because the dialogue, the scenery, everything is so tacky and cringy and awful it hurts. Even something banal, like character hairstyles, makes you want to stop watching, it's so unconvincing a laughably bad. And even the fighting scenes, which are supposed to be the strongest point of this genre, are just horrible. The battle choreography is extremely lousy done and chaotic. Tacky colors don't help either. And above all that comes the sad llama face of the main protagonist, whose acting skills can be compared to those of a brick. I can't in all honesty believe that somebody actually read this script and said "let's do this". There is absolutely nothing good about it. I'm still in shock from what I've seen. I can't imagine bigger fail than making an homage to kung-fu classics in this day and age with all the technology and cinematography available and creating a movie which is undeniably worse than those flicks made with rope and stick 30 or 40 years ago. A fail of epic proportions. And they made a sequel. Unfathomable.