Simply Perfect

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

First of all I'd like to point out that people who poorly reviewed this film or simple dismissed it as a straight to video B-Movie clearly missed the point. If you think going into this movie you were going to get Oscar worthy acting, high budgeted local and special effects, you simply missed the point. This movie intentionally has a simple plot which I'm not going to get into because that's not the reason to watch this movie. This film also doesn't need a crazy budget for what it is trying to accomplish. This film is all about showcasing Micheal Jai Whites brutal, high flying martial art skills and excellent stunt work. That's really it. I can honestly say that this movie was made to show how great of a martial artist he is and it amazes me that this guy doesn't get more work in mainstream Hollywood movies. After all people would be surprised to know that Jai White is just about 50 years old and he looks and moves like someone who is in their 20's maybe even early 30's. If you are a fan of the action films of the 80's and 90's, this is a movie for you. Micheal Jai White absolutely brings his A-Game in the fighting sequences. Any fan of the action/ martial art genre will enjoy this movie. I will finish by saying, turn off your brain and enjoy the killer fight scenes. I just hope they decide to make a sequel.

When it comes to fighting-movies, I am not that big on championships and ring-fighting. I'd rather see fighting in normal settings. This film is a pretty good mix, though. The street fights, or arranged fights if you will, are pretty entertaining, and they are not that many.The movie is basically made to show of what a bad ass fighter Michael Jai White is, and the movie succeeds pretty well. He might be a little too bad ass though, because there is not a lot of tension here. The fighting is good. Brutal and well choreographed. A little sloppy a couple of times, but I'm picky. Michael Jai White seems to have some serious skill. The acting is pretty good, well, alright at least. I didn't care much for the "protagonist" at first, but he grew on me. The "drama" in between the fighting is alright, it doesn't drag you in quite as much as it should, but not bad.Put Jai White in a bigger budget movie with a really good fight choreographer, and we'll have ourselves a classic!

Bones is released from prison, but he promised his friend inside that he would protect his wife and child. He seeks lodging from what appears to be from a totally different film and ends up at some strange fight club/disco, ran by the leader of the lost boys from Hook.Unbeknown to everyone, he is a genius at martial arts, and it isn't long before he gets the attention of the scarily sounding James, who just as it happens, has his friends wife as his girlfriend (forcibly by the looks of it).So Bone goes from fight to fight, making money, and vexing the crime lords, and all the while Julian Sands is hamming it up as the films über bad guy. We know he is because he sits across the street in a car, and sits in his garden with all his friends.Ignore the plot, it isn't really much, and admire the wonderful fight choreography that this film has. Jai-White may be a hulking presence, but his skills are almost balletic, and if he continues to make films like this, and Black Dynamite, he, along with Scott Adkins could be the future of Direct to DVD action movies.The film harks back to the eighties, and is very reminiscent of the Van Danme movie A.W.O.L (or Lionhearted if your outside the UK), and with each opponent, it becomes more and more difficult, until Bones finally reaches the end of game boss.So for action fans, its a step up from martial arts films of recent memory, for the casual film watcher, it won't be anything special for you.And for people who grew up in the eighties, and loved films with the words American, Kickboxer, Eagle, China, and Ninja in their titles, this is a wonderful hybrid of Bloodsport, AWOL, Game of Death, with a hint of Fast and Furious thrown in for good measure.And it has the best reference to Enter The Dragon ever featured in a movie.

I have had "Blood and Bone" laying around for quite a while, just never got around to watching it, as I thought it was a boxing movie. Don't know where I got that notion from. It wasn't before a friend of mine mentioned the martial arts in the movie that I picked it up and actually got around to watching it. The reason for me acquiring this movie was because of Julian Sands, but it turned out that he was not in the movie all that much, much to my disappointment."Blood and Bone" is about Isaiah Bone (played by Michael Jai White) who comes out of prison with a promise to fulfill to his friend from inside the jail. And in order to do this, he becomes a street fighter with his ambition set on one thing only.Story-wise, then "Blood and Bone" is fairly average and generic. There is nothing overly impressive or creatively new to be seen here. But still, it works out well enough, because the storyline (however generic it might be) is spiced up with some really nice fighting scenes.I must admit that I was thoroughly impressed with the fighting skills of Michael Jai White, I never knew he was this good. So that sort of made me want to see more of his movies, as I have only seen "Spawn" and the "Universal Soldier" movie he was in.As for the people on the cast list, then people did good jobs with their roles. Again, Michael Jai White impressed with his performance in "Blood and Bone". But he wasn't carrying the movie alone, Eamonn Walker (playing James) also did a really great job, as did Julian Sands (playing Franklin McVeigh). Dante Basco (playing Pinball) was a bit out of his element here in this movie, but it was fun to see him in a role such as this one."Blood and Bone" is a great action movie, and well worth watching if you enjoy a good fight or two.