Man, the movie was good, but the gun fight at the end was cheaply made, poorly executed and shifted the entire movie's style to something much much worse. What happened, did they run out of production money?
But still, a fab movie - AND fights!
I agree, the movie was very good, obviously within it's means.
But, with regard to your comments about the ending, I disagree, there was obviously a reference to the Samurai movies of the 1960's. "Samurai Rebellion" or "Hara Kiri", in that this character, decided to take on the whole town knowing full well he couldn't possibly win, or even survive.
I know in this film he uses a variety of weapons and not just a sword, I understand the scene seems a little far fetched, but that is what appealed about it. He really had no choice but to take them on, I liked it, the crowd of students I watched it with also liked it! Maybe we don't represent the norm.
Even though the production value was not so fantastic, the ingenious and original ending won over for me (original with respect to the current action movie genre).
There were obvious Samurai, chambala code, references throughout this story, it was a very interesting film to watch for a student of japanese cinema. I know this sounds a bit far fetched for a low budget action movie, but gentlemen, and ladies, look closely at this film.
I am very curious to see if these film makers continue in this vein, or whether this was a one off. I am excited to see what they do with more money, I am just doubtful that this film will get the following it deserves.
I agree the tone of the movie, Pit Fighter, did seem to shift in the final act, but this was the natural progression for this story. I don't see how they could have ended the movie any other way. Maybe if the Jack character, had taken on the town bare handed, but that would have been absurd. The ending was also definitly not a Hollywood ending in story, at least. I frankly was really surprised that the character ended up the way he did. Like he says in the final shot of the film -- "Shot to pieces, like hamburger meat..."
I am not blind, the film had it's flaws, and the production value seemed uneven, but, what an intent; better to aim high, and try to make a poetic, grand guignol of violence and political incorrectness, and fail, than to conveyor belt out the usual low budget action celluloid trash. Two blood splashed thumbs up for Pit Fighter!
It's the first 20-30 seconds of the shoot-out, that not only the tone but the whole action universe changes. Look at the Vandenberg, he stands right there while at least two-three baddies are firing full-auto at him at short-medium range. And hey, they miss - that reminds me of Commando with Arnie I think....What a shame, guys, it could have been the martial arts film of the decade. Maybe they should have put a little less full automatic sounds in the post-production, I don't know.
OMG!
I was just thinking the same thing. I though it was silly when Arnold killed all those South-Americans in Commando without a scratch. But this. This was the lamest shootout scene for ages. Guy just stands there like a practice target and the baddies shoot him point blank, but nobody hits. Come on!
Fortunately I didn't like the rest of the movie either, so I can forget, that I ever saw this as soon as possible.
Good idea for an ending but it was done stupidly. Starts off with half a dozen guys shooting him from point blank range with machine guns and missing then they start charging him to bludgeon him with there guns when he has a sword. I could have directed a more realistic scene then that crap. They could have ended the movie with a dancing bunny running naked through the town handing out flowers and i would have taken it more seriously.
share"They could have ended the movie with a dancing bunny running naked through the town handing out flowers and i would have taken it more seriously."
LOL!!! Please remind me never to read your post while drinking cofee at the same time. Coffee through the nose when laughing is terrible.
Try shooting someone at point blank, with an automatic weapon, it's not as easy as you would think. Although I agree that the entire scene is unrealistic, the concept of standing 10 feet away from someone pulling the trigger on an auto and missing, is totally realistic.
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shareI agree with most of you. But i thought the fighting was so fresh and menacingly brutal with fantastic shots of kicks to the head and blood spilling that at the end i just enjoyed the shootout and laughed through it, because it would take alot more than the shootout to make that film bad.
I love pitfighter i recommend it to anyone with a good sence of martial arts films and actionfilms. also fans of western shootouts would love it..ONLY JOOKKING. not really
Perhaps all the shooters are stoned and drunk...
lol anybody catch how the whole time the dude screamed like a girl. when he lets it rip with the m60 just "nyeeeeeehh..."
sharehaha yea and they used the exact same scream at least 3 times. how about the part when he runs straight at the 4 guys blasting away at hime, they all miss, he picks up the sword, then cuts through them all. what a joke.
i know one guy was trying to argue the concept that shooting something at close range at full auto is not as easy as you think. i agree. but these are supposedly trained agents of the mafia. maybe if he was fighting the local 2nd grade class they would miss that much.
I thought the ending sucked as well...it was a decent movie up till then.
Having 50 guys shooting at you and all miss? No matter how hard it is to hit something with an automatic...not to talk about the guy himself...if the others miss with their tiny guns so should he...Maybe I'm involving too much logics into it...but I guess they could blame it on the religious theme that was present...
I am an inexperienced shooter and me by myself at close range with a fully auto can take out a moving bowling pin, much less a full grown man. BUt we should not argue the films realism as in films there is none, especially in action films.
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