Thursday, February 23, 2023

'Skin Trade' (2014) - Ekachai Uekrongtham. 

The bellicose, full throttle fight-fest 'Skin Trade' stars towering, ruggedly handsome action icon, Dolph Lundgren, the strapping, steely-eyed storm bringer has little trouble filling the oversized, skell-crushing boots of Teflon tough cop, Nick Cassidy, whose overwhelming grief over the sudden loss of his loving wife, Rosa (Tasya Teles) turns him rogue revenger, righteously slaughtering all the scum and villainy working for girl trafficking Serbian gangster, Viktor Dravik (Ron Perlman). The skinny Minnie plot providing the meagre skeleton for the fleet-fisted narrative's bulkier substances, namely an explosively power packed preponderance of hypertrophically muscular action scenes, the bullet-shredded mayhem culminating in a bravura display of adrenalized martial arts insanity!

Ekachai 'Beautiful Boxer' Uekrongtham's ably orchestrates some visceral confrontations in his frequently exhilarating fight-fest 'Skin Trade', this relentlessly rib cracking, bone breaking bonanza is electrified by three of the hardiest head knockers in the business, a triumphant triple threat, with Dolph Lundgren, Michael Jai White, and brutally balletic Muay Thai legend, Tony Jaa offering the sordid sex traffickers no quarter! This tibia trashing trio really delivers the goods, with the savage showdown between the preternaturally agile, Tony Jaa and heroically hard-hitting, Dolph Lundgren providing a memorably mayhemic display of killer Kung Fu wizardry! While the formulaic text is stolid, rather than subtle, the plentiful punch ups, and committed performances of these charismatic action stars are exemplary! 

 





 

 

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