RE:BORN is an effective, low budget Japanese fight flick with a starring role for Tak Sakaguchi, the actor best known for his vibrant debut turn in VERSUS. This feels rather like HEADSHOT, a recent Indonesian vehicle for THE RAID's Iko Uwais, mixed a bit with THE MAN FROM NOWHERE. Sakaguchi plays a retired special forces fighter, specialising in knife combat, who finds himself targeted by his former organisation and forced to fight off a string of assassins and then a whole army. So far, so predictable, but where this film excels is in the fast and furious fight choreography. Sure, it's a digital film shot in the woods for the most part, but it delivers the goods on the action front with a series of blistering and gruesome combat scenes. The whole cast put in purely physical performances and the end result is quite exhausting, but also thoroughly entertaining.
Review of Re:Born
