Both Michael Jai White and Scott Adkins are terrific martial artists who have made a career out of acting, and in particular in the action genre of films; however, their talents are gone to waste as they are reduced to straight-to-DVD offerings such as this one. Blood and Bone isn't necessarily a bad film: but take away Jai White and this movie just isn't that watchable. He is super quick and his punches and kicks strike fear against any opponent - yet the story is ordinary, trite with some terrible dialogue consisting of F-words, the direction isn't that good and with Dante, formerly of Hook-fame, effing and blinding as he plays an annoying little promoter. It's all right I guess... for a low budget action flick; the action, which is rather good at times & thanks to Jai White himself, saves it from being completely awful. Otherwise, there are countless other better movies of this type, elsewhere.

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Been a while since I watched this. I totally forgot how great the fights were.

The film also features the best use of Wang Chung in any movie, including that one Friedkin flick.

A serviceable story with solid to good performances, but the only reason this is remotely watchable as an action movie is because of prime Michael Jai White. The style is so uninspired, though. A real far cry from the energy of a Florentine, or the creativity of a Yuen Woo-ping. The camera doesn't seem to know how to emphasize impact in the slightest, making most of the fights downright uninvolving. Maybe it isn't fair to hold it up against those but how can you not when it's trying to play the same game?

This movie is badass! You get some pretty solid performances. Michael Jai White proves again why he is one of the best and most underrated action stars today. Eamonn Walker makes a great villain. What I like about this villain is that he's pretty much an evil version of White's character, which makes for some interesting confrontations between the two. The fight scenes are intense, exciting, and pretty badass. The story is compelling and interesting. This is one of those rare fight movies that actually has a good story. My only problems were that the last fight was a bit underwhelming and the film itself has too many coincidences for me to buy into. Nonetheless, if you want to see a film with great fight scenes, a great story, and you wanna see Michael Jai White kick some ass, this is a must see.

Aside from the JOHN WICK series and a few others, if you're looking for well-shot and choreographed action after 2005, your best bet is either Southeast Asia, or Direct-To-Video.

This is one of the first great examples of the latter. BLOOD AND BONE takes a whole bunch of well-worn tropes (underground fighting, MMA cameos, a mysterious hero, etc), and then places a good twist on just about every one. It is entertaining and surprising the whole way through.

None of that would work without Michael Jai White, Eamonn Walker, and JJ Perry, the choreographer. The fights are clear and energetic and well-paced, and White and Walker bring A-level acting to all of their scenes.

I know I have said this about several movies, but this may be at the very top of my "Why The Fuck Didn't We Get A Sequel To This?!?" list. There are so many good angles they could have used!

Lastly, Michael Jai White is beautiful.

This is a ghetto fabulous flick. Think "fight movie". Every cliche you thought of is here. Michael Jai White is an ex convict called Bone with a set of ass kicking skills that make him a star in the underground fighting circuit and a threat to a local gangster played with intensity by Eamonn Walker. Great use of Wang Chung's hit Dance Hall Days. Beautiful big breasted Nona Gaye plays the righteous sista and real life fighters Maurice Smith, Kimbo Slice and even another beautiful big breasted ass kicking Gina Carano make their contributions to this terrible but entertaining fight flick. For more ghetto fabulousness from this director check out Love and a Bullet. Even his script for the Mark Wahlberg flick The Big Hit is full of ghetto fabulous shit. And O'Hara lives!

Been a while since I watched this. I totally forgot how great the fights were.

The film also features the best use of Wang Chung in any movie, including that one Friedkin flick.

Hard as nails, is right Bone.

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Blood and Bone

Rating: 7/10

Great fights, the rest is shite.

My dude Bone!!! Pretty cool martial arts movie. Good stunt work and not too long either. I liked that it was about honoring a promise instead of just street fighting. You can tell some of the shots within the fight that they’re just punching a camera lol. It’s just edited with quick cuts to try to hide that. There was a good story here but it was underwritten. Still a fine enough time if you like fighting movies. It was noice revisiting this.

This delivers massively on the fight scenes and that’s all I ask of my martial art movies

Eammon Walker's villain performance truly elevates this film.

The action is pretty badass. Michael Jai White is a perfect leading man and I really wanna see him in more action films.

Yes, the movie has plenty of technical flaws but as always, I don't care.

Black History 5/28

Michael Jai White, vulgo Scott Adkins negro. É isso mesmo que você leu, sua piranha, eu gosto de filme de luta de baixo orçamento

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Respect to Michael Jai White, but imagine thinking is a good movie--even if you've seen literally any martial arts movie before this.