Honor (2006)

Exciting picture full of brawls by means of fierce bare-knuckled combats staged in the slums . In a world where street gangs collide with the law, neighborhood friends from infancy , Raymond ( Russell Wong of ¨Romeo must die¨ ) and Gabriel (Jason Barry of ¨Beyond Re-animator¨), must decide which side of the battle to join . This will be the ultimate fight - the one for power, family, and honor. This thrilling movie deals with a tight-lipped young who is introduced to the world of underground street fierce brawling . Two friends are separated of brutal manner after an accident , Raymond leads to prison and Gabriel to exile . Both of whom learn martial arts to survive and take different sides to fight . Raymond goes out from jail and Gabriel returns home where meet his adopted parents , the recently retired Lt Tyrell (Roddy Piper of ¨They live¨ ) and his wife (Joanna Pacula of ¨Escape from Sobibor¨) . Gabriel attempts to come up with a way to get enough money to live , but there emerges a dangerous contender versus Raymond who arranges his bare-knuckled bouts . Gabriel teams up with a police woman (Linda Park od ¨Enterprise¨ series ) to defend his family against the nasty Raymond and his hoodlums . Gabriel is soon fighting various contenders -ranging from Harlem bouncing to Oriental fighters . Gabriel decides that he has something worth brawling for and sets everything on the line to vanquish in these no-holds-barred bare-knuckle fights . Although Gabriel only wants to bash opponents long enough to gain enough honor , he is reluctant to let tricks in combats on the fighting . Every knock-out brings him closer to the existence he's always wished , but also carries him in a deadly cobweb he can't getaway . At the ending , the two old friends are forced to fight in a deadly confrontation . The picture contains violence , drama ,thrills , and lots of brutal brawls plenty of punch , kicks, and knockouts . Acceptable performance from Jason Barry as impulsive young becoming a professional street-fighter and battling a variety of contenders , plus Roddy Pipper gives a surprisingly good acting as veteran police and special mention to Russel Wong as cruel villain . The picture belongs to sub-genre about street combats as ¨Lionheart¨ with Jean Claude Van Damme and whose maxim representation turns out to be the classic ¨Hard times¨ by Walter Hill with Charles Bronson and James Coburn ; furthermore , recent adaptation titled ¨Fighting ¨ by Dito Montiel with Channing Tatum and Luis Guzman . It's a colorful but violent entertainment that results to be the last film of his director Michael Worth . He's an expert on art martial movies as he realized Jean Claude Van Damme vehicles as ¨Kickboxer¨ and ¨Bloodsport¨ and Cynthia Rothrock as ¨Lady Dragon I and II¨. Worth is also a notorious cinematographer who photographed for Clint Eastwood various films as ¨Any which way you can¨ and ¨Bronco Billy¨ . Rating : 4,5 passable , only for those who like films in which fist-play are staged ¨ad nauseam¨.

Wow, first thing i would say is i never would think Gabriel's actor didn't get any martial arts training. He seem pretty good at it. Of course i wish i could have seen more of him, he didn't fight so much but what he did was pretty good and didn't seem like a guy with no training at in MA at all. I really like the cook too, didn't known him but he have pretty good skill in MA. As for the story, it got to me in many ways, as Gabriel wanna do whats right but at the same time dosen't want to do bad things do a guy he consider as a friend. But i got to say just like him i would have do the same choice, the character really got to me for that, cause for me the pattern is Honor, Loyalty and respect in that way, honor will always go before loyalty and loyalty will always go before respect. And i think Ray got it the wrong way as for him Respect was the first thing he wanted and owning the streets by any mean meant respect for him. I knew when i brought this that the director of Kickboxer(one of the great fighting movie) and Bloodsport(one of my favourite fighting movie) would deliver, but i didn't tough it would one i would freaking love a lot. Glad to have buy it and i got it for like 7 bucks, a ridiculous price considering its so good. One funny fact, its like in this movie you see WWE/F wrestler are way more actors than wrestling, as Roddy Piper was very believable and did a pretty good job, but as a wrestler he was awful in most of his matches...lol. Overall i am really happy to see this movie got good review here, which is rare for a martial arts movie. Of course there is always gonna be haters... but well you have to deal with them. And just for fun... the character on the cover is a no name doing the intro fight... I'm kind of curious why they didn't put a real character... you expect this guy to be the lead but he is really not.

There was not one single redeeming factor in this movie. The girlfriend and I both love action films. Especially fight scenes (Bloodsport and Kickboxer was awesome), but this movie was not entertaining. Five minutes of action followed twenty minutes of talking and "angry" facial expressions. The main hero is a troubled character who has seen battle and thus is forced to look seriously constipated at all times. The Army has disrupted his bowel movements on top of perfecting his fighting technique. The music isn't good either. They fight to the rap and hip-hop style of the streets, 'cause these guys are thugs. The rest of the soundtrack is the usual background noise to low-budget dramas.Everything about this movie is classic B-style. The actors deliver their lines as if reading them from cue cards and the lines themselves should be set on fire and left burning in some rotten Hollywood alleyway. The film is called "Honor," but there was no honor in making this film. It was simply a waste of money, and spending wisely is something I consider to be honorable.Go see Felon instead. The fight scenes and situations are more real.

I've just finished watching this movie, and was totally amazed. I don't care what other people think about this movie, but I love it. I'm also very happy that I saw my hero Roddy Piper almost all the time on screen, and not like 5 minutes max as in some previous movies.The fighting scenes were amazing, and all actors, no matter how old or young they were, played their roles perfectly and believably. And that is, in my opinion, the most important thing, to play your role so, that people believe it.I'm glad that it is finally available to watch, it was well worth the wait. :)