WHAT’S IT ABOUT
Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Based on a 2017 comic book, Jiu-Jitsu uses comic panels to transition between scenes for most of the movie. Within the first 30 minutes, there are three massive fight scenes and an invisible entity chasing/hunting people. So how can a movie have so much action and be so horrible at the same time? Atrocious acting, stupid story, and inconsistent camera angles, you know, the ones where they cut from angle to angle to hide the fact they had to use a double or film the scene multiple times. Then there’s the dumb and overused slow motion during the fight sequences along with the setup of the obvious places for combatants to fall on or break through. The soldiers can’t hit a target at point-blank range, and the wasted talents of so many well-trained fighters, like Alain Moussi, JuJu Chan, and my personal favorite, Tony Jaa, had to do this just for the paycheck. Then there’s Nicolas Cage. He must have been bored because, just like the other stars of this action crap, he was not needed. As this horrible movie continued to play out, it became increasingly worse. They tried to explain the story and made it worse. There was something about a comet and aliens and honor and . . . it really didn’t matter at that point. Jiu-Jitsu is clearly a film that should have been animated for it to work because using real actors would require a Marvel-sized budget to make it work. The Production companies involved with this project have nowhere near the needed amount to make that happen. I wish I could say something redeeming about this movie, but I wanted to stop watching after the first twenty minutes. Jiu-Jitsu will never be a guilty pleasure, and the streaming networks it’s on currently will be dropping it as soon as the newness has worn off.
OUR RATING – A DEFUNCT 1.5
MEDIA
- Genre – Fantasy
- Street date
- Digital – November 20th, 2020
- DVD – December 22nd, 2020
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 1.85:1
- Sound – English: DTS-HD MA 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish
Extras
- none