Blood and Bone DVD Review
22.01.10
, a personal favourite of mine) is. In that regard, it's mission accomplished because Bone is a bad-ass of the highest order (“You got til the count of five” being just as menacing as old Clint telling folks to vacate his lawn), taking out all eight would-be assassins in less than twenty seconds. It's a pulsating opening that sets the tone for the rest of the movie.
The fight scenes are brutal and realistic (under the watchful eye Fernando Chien) and most of the characters are more well rounded than this type of film normally gets, despite some of them being stereotypes. The non-fighting dramatic “story forwarding” scenes, which normally drag a film like this down, also shine more than they have any right to.
The main cast are great in their respective roles, with Jai White (bad-ass to the, ahem, bone), Julian Sands (an actor who deserves to star in better movies than he has in the past), Eamonn Walker (who plays his part with villainous relish) and Dante Basco (who gets most of the best lines) all excelling. The real-world fighters all, unsurprisingly, look the part in what are essentially cameo roles (Bob Sapp comes across as one of the most legitimately terrifying looking men on the planet, while Gina Carano is disturbingly hot when she's pounding the crap out of a hapless female opponent) and Nona Gaye handling the love-interest part with aplomb and dignity.
Source: Wrestling 101