I watched this flick long time ago in a cinema. Those days we had a few martial arts movies running on big screen including "Hong kil dong" and this one. "Hong kil dong" was amazing but this one was a joke. One kid told me something like "You haven't seen "Hong kil dong"? Then go and watch this one!" What rot! A few Russian actors are running about, trying to show off their very limited karate abilities. And they really score in arranging a pathetic piece of movie-making. I guess, it is one of those examples, when our directors try hard to copy the famous foreign martial arts movies.
The plot is boring: a kid (not the kid who told me something like "You haven't seen "Hong kil dong"? Then go and watch this one!") gets kidnapped and his father, having a few friends, tries to solve this problem in a private way. The friends are making up a team of four (therefore the flick has such a title) and get to business. They have to face the criminal world of some macho-wannabes. The camera-work is boring too. The scenes are dark, the colours are faded, and the poor action scenes are poorly filmed. The "heroes" are also trying to joke all the way through the movie but it simply doesn't work.
Still, if you are some Texas boy who has no idea what the hell "a run-of-the-mill Russian karate action" is, then it can be quite educational and maybe even great fun.
All in all, I am sick and tired of the national criminal flicks, which are abundant on our TV and resemble each other. Therefore I simply cannot give it more than a hardly satisfactory mark: 3 out of 10. Thanks for attention.
The plot is boring: a kid (not the kid who told me something like "You haven't seen "Hong kil dong"? Then go and watch this one!") gets kidnapped and his father, having a few friends, tries to solve this problem in a private way. The friends are making up a team of four (therefore the flick has such a title) and get to business. They have to face the criminal world of some macho-wannabes. The camera-work is boring too. The scenes are dark, the colours are faded, and the poor action scenes are poorly filmed. The "heroes" are also trying to joke all the way through the movie but it simply doesn't work.
Still, if you are some Texas boy who has no idea what the hell "a run-of-the-mill Russian karate action" is, then it can be quite educational and maybe even great fun.
All in all, I am sick and tired of the national criminal flicks, which are abundant on our TV and resemble each other. Therefore I simply cannot give it more than a hardly satisfactory mark: 3 out of 10. Thanks for attention.
