AlbertV
08-22-2009, 09:47 PM
Hey guys,
I took a gamble and rented this Rob Schneider-directed action comedy from Redbox (at $1.00 why not). Yes, there was the typical Schneider not-so-funny humor but its redeeming factor comes in that Schneider, who played the titular character, an embezzler who goes to prison and becomes the "top dog" as you will, really handled the film's martial arts fight scenes very well.
This is the film that Schneider was hospitalized from heat exhaustion. He suffered it while shooting one of the film's big martial arts fight scenes, which pitted him against the likes of Bob Sapp, Erik Betts, and Mark "Afro Ninja" Hicks to name a few.
The fight scenes mainly comprised of three martial arts: Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Kali-Silat, and Muay Thai. Schneider trained under Danny Inosanto, Nino Pilla, Ray Copeland, and Jeff Imada for the film and he even has a pretty nice brief fight against Simon Rhee.
So yeah, it is understandable why the film ultimately went to DVD, but I got my buck's worth in terms of the martial arts fights, which surprisingly, was not much of a cut and hack job...you actually got to see some techniques there.
Plus, I have to admit, part of the reason I saw it was the late David Carradine, who definitely hammed it up as Stan's mentor, known only as "The Master".
I took a gamble and rented this Rob Schneider-directed action comedy from Redbox (at $1.00 why not). Yes, there was the typical Schneider not-so-funny humor but its redeeming factor comes in that Schneider, who played the titular character, an embezzler who goes to prison and becomes the "top dog" as you will, really handled the film's martial arts fight scenes very well.
This is the film that Schneider was hospitalized from heat exhaustion. He suffered it while shooting one of the film's big martial arts fight scenes, which pitted him against the likes of Bob Sapp, Erik Betts, and Mark "Afro Ninja" Hicks to name a few.
The fight scenes mainly comprised of three martial arts: Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do, Kali-Silat, and Muay Thai. Schneider trained under Danny Inosanto, Nino Pilla, Ray Copeland, and Jeff Imada for the film and he even has a pretty nice brief fight against Simon Rhee.
So yeah, it is understandable why the film ultimately went to DVD, but I got my buck's worth in terms of the martial arts fights, which surprisingly, was not much of a cut and hack job...you actually got to see some techniques there.
Plus, I have to admit, part of the reason I saw it was the late David Carradine, who definitely hammed it up as Stan's mentor, known only as "The Master".