Guardian (2014) Reviews

• Maybe you think I'm a weird mother.

  nogodnomasters2018-01-17

  The film opens with a 5 minute fight sequence. I thought I was watching a Cato vs. Clouseau fight until one got killed. We jump to the future where a girl is learning martial arts...for "that day" while a criminal is being transported and escapes. The two subplots quickly slam back together as we get 50 minutes of fighting and car crashes and having little to no idea what the movie is about. Then the film pauses and confirms our first guess from the meager clues then goes into a flashback which explains it all, including the opening scene. This was rather boring stuff, so the film goes back to shooting, tossing in some bad choreographed hand to hand stuff. The film was shot in Jakarta, Indonesia a place where dubbed English is the official language (computer screens in English too) and some of the dubbing was done in an echo chamber. If watching people shoot at each other with automatic weapons at close range and only extras getting hit, this film has it and more. Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Plenty of shooting and car crashes. As a martial arts film it left much to be desired.