The Purifiers (2004)

The Purifiers: Directed by Richard Jobson. With Kevin McKidd, Gordon Alexander, Rachel Grant, Dominic Monaghan. The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to maintain the successful system which has rid the city of crime and violence.

“Got this film along with a couple of other direct to DVD martial arts films.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film showed great promise but, alas, it sucked. The cast were good but most of the most talented guys seemed under used and McKidd and the hobbit were seriously miscast (come on guys cast fighters as fighters not actors as fighters and fighters as actors).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe biggest flaw about this was itu0026#39;s use of slow motion… god if theyu0026#39;d taken all that out the film would have been 5 mins long!!! Everything about this film is wrong… the direction, casting, shots, production… it just feels cheap and fake.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStrangely I ordered another UK action film at the same time that shared cast members like Gordon Alexander, Brendan Carr, Chirs Jones, Ashley Beck, Oliver Hollis and others called u0026#39;Left For Deadu0026#39;. Whilst that has a seriously reduced budget in comparison, for all itu0026#39;s faults, it was head and shouters above this piece of tosh! u0026#39;Left For Deadu0026#39; used the action stars to the best of their abilities and whilst the Purifiers attempted to rip of the Warriors (and looked cheap doing it) u0026#39;Left For Deadu0026#39; ripped off everything from payback, Fist Of Fury and others and whilst it does occasionally look cheap at least the story, action and way it embraced its budget far exceeded this film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI rated u0026#39;Left For Deadu0026#39; as a 8 whilst this gets a 2. What does this mean? Occasionally all you need is talent, invention and excitement rather than budget, names and sloooooooooooow moooootiiiiioooon! In brief : if your gunna watch one Uk martial arts film this year donu0026#39;t get this. get u0026#39;Left For Deadu0026#39;.”