Alright, so I heard about this movie on Martialartsmoviejunkie, and being in a fighting-movie kind of mood, I checked it out.

Lets get down to it. The fighting is pretty good. Good choreography, and pretty well shot. (no shaky cam thank god) The action is over all not bad. Although the shoot-out scene drags on and suffers from low budget. Bullet penetrate just one side of cardboard boxes? Really? Come on.

What is not good though, is the acting. The drama. Oh god, the drama. First off, 3 of the 4 main actors are not really American, but speak English none the less. Broken English, that is. And they can't really act that good, it's not horrible, but it's in no way good enough. At least not good enough to have dramatic scenes with crying and stuff.

The movie is just good enough for me to watch it to the end, and SPOILER the ending is kind of a not too bad twist that I didn't see coming. If you really love fighting movies, this is alright. But there are plenty others to see before this one.

There are plenty of martial arts scenes but you'll have to wait 20 minutes before the first fight starts. During those 20 minutes our 'heroes' get tangled into a "Die Hard with A Vengeace / 12 Rounds" script that's totally unconvincing in which the characters do the most stupid things.

'Unconvincing' is also a word you could choose when it comes to the acting, but that would be an understatement. The cast is terrible and painful to watch. Most of them are martial artists, not actors and that really shows. Besides the fight scenes everything is below standard, the story, the music, the lightning. The shoot out scenes are laughable and badly choreographed.

When one of their friends die we're supposed to have an emotional scene but it's unintentionally funny, just straight out bad.

Is the martial arts in "Die Fighting" that special ? Well, it's not bad and some scenes are certainly worth enduring the rest of the film. But "Die Fighting" isn't a good film because everything else kind of .. sucks.

Don't expect anything epic when it comes to the martial arts. This certainly isn't in the same league as "Kiss of the Dragon", "Ong Bak", "The Raid", "Martial Outlaw", "Lionheart" etc. Expect something like that and you'll be disappointed.

The fight scene between Van Damme and Bolo Yeung in "Double Impact" is 1000 times better than anything in this film. If you're a martial arts fan and missed one of the titles above, go watch that instead..

I was thinking just the other day, what genre hasn't been sodomized by the hand held camera genre? It seems the latest and certainly not greatest to the list is martial art fighting. Four men learn to fight from the Shaolin monastery. They make a video short that receives recognition. The next thing you know, one of their girls is kidnapped and they are forced to perform all kinds of crime and do fighting as a gauntlet of planted cams watches their every move. The dialogue and acting was bad. Jess Allen should retire if this is his best.

If you want to watch it simply for the fighting, there is enough of that, but don't expect a plot you can get into.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.