Hawk's Vengence

Rating:
Summary: Good if you like Gary
Review: This is clearly not a high budget movie, but I nonetheless liked it and feel that it is worth seeing.

If you've read my other reviews of Gary Daniels' movies, you'll know that I watch because of him in particular. He's an amazingly good-looking and appealing guy. In this movie, he's a work of art -- flawlessly perfect from head to toe. He gets to show off his impressive physique in several scenes, displaying outstanding shape, proportion, and definition. And there is a love interest explored. Indeed, there is even a sex scene, albeit it far too brief and chaste for a guy who has this amount of sex appeal. (How can directors put a man this beautiful into a movie and not capitalize upon his sex appeal? It just doesn't make any sense). If you enjoy looking at Gary, then you must get this DVD, moreso than perhaps any other.

Yes, the plot is your typical martial arts story line of "You're a bad guy who killed my relative, so I'm coming after you out of revenge, and will kill you with my fists and feet and impressive martial arts skills". But the movie does have more humor to it than most of Gary's movies (some of it a bit gruesome though). So if you're into the Jackie Chan type of martial arts movie where there's something "whimsical" thrown in every now and then, you may appreciate that aspect. I'm not into martials arts per se, and except for the final fight scene which drags on far too long for my tastes, this movie had enough plot and character development inbetween fight scenes to keep my interest going whereas most martial arts movies can be a snoozefest for me. I really liked watching Gary here because he does more acting than in some other movies, and his character gets to explore his personal/social side.

The DVD quality is not the greatest, but it's hard to quibble about what you're looking at when it's Gary's pretty face onscreen. The DVD has a choice of english or french language track. No closed captioning. It has scene selections. The special features aren't special, and consist of 2 biographies of people who apparently are part of the company that produced this DVD, and a mini-documentary in french about what appears to be the same company.