What's Up Y'all?
My name is Prince, and I am an Urban Acolyte.
Triple Threat is one of the movies that is like a martial arts movie fans best dream.
You take 3 of the baddest dudes on the Asian Martial Arts scene, and you put them up against
a bunch of badass guys from the West.
It was an aggressive project that started out about 3-4 years ago, and it finally came
together.
So last night I saw Triple Threat here in Nashville.
It had a 1-night only showing at select movie theaters here in the United States, and it
will come out video on demand on March 22.
I want to give you guys my initial impressions, and I will post a FULL REVIEW of the movie
with spoilers this weekend after y'all have had a chance to check it out for yourself
on Friday or Saturday.
So if you didn't hear from my previous two videos, Triple Threat is directed by stuntman
and action movie director, Jesse Johnson.
Someone said they were unsure about this movie because they'd never heard of the director--well,
first off, everyone gets their start somewhere.
Jesse has been in the movie game for about 15 years as a director, and he started doing
stuntwork when I was like 10-- so that's almost 30 years total in the movie game.
If you're a fan of Scott Adkins, like me--then you'll be surprised to know that Scott's last
4 films-- Savage Dog, Accident Man, and the Debt Collector were all directed by Jesse
Johnson.
Scott's next announced film, Avengement-- so I'm saying all that to let you know-- if
you have any doubts about this film, you shouldn't if you're a Scott Adkins fan.
Before I get into my thoughts on the movie-- I also want to give a shoutout to the screenplay
writer, Joey O'Bryan.
His parents were actually at Hollywood 27 last night where I saw the movie.
Like between exchanging emails with Ron Smoorenberg, who played one of the bad guys, getting to
know the film's publicist, and then meeting the screenplay writer's parents-- like I feel
like I'm a small part of this film.
I honestly can't say that about any Star Wars movie, which is one reason this movie, Triple
Threat, has me thinking about if I will even continue covering Star Wars movies on this
channel.
But that's a conversation for another time.
So this movie Triple Threat-- the short summary of the film describes it as covering the story
of two down and out mercenaries meeting up with a fighter on a revenge mission being
pulled into a bigger conflict involving a death squad looking to assassinate a wealthy
heiress who is attempting to take down an organized crime ring.
There's a lot of stuff there to unpack, so you'll have to check back for my full spoiler
review of the movie in a few days!
So I'll jump right to the question you're really wanting to know--was it good?
Uhmmm...Let me ask you this-- do you like Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Michael Jai
White, and Scott Adkins?
Do you like when they are all in one big movie kicking the crap out of each other in a big
martial arts battle royale?
If you do, then I've got something to tell you-- Homie--you're about to see ALL OF THAT!
Like no spoilers...no spoilers...almost everyone fights everyone at some point in this movie.
I'll tell you this because you can see it in the trailer.
Dude--you're gonna see Iko Uwais and Tony Jaa fight each other in like the first 5:00
of the movie, dawg.
Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais...yes, dawg...it went down.
It went down.
Now, because of all the badass mofos in this movie, it wasn't one of those things where
some people look invincible.
Like Tony Jaa in Ong Bak and in the Protector movies is pretty invincible in almost every
fight-- he's a beast in this movie...like for real, he is.
There's even a nod to The Protector version of Tony Jaa.
I'mma talk about that in my full review, but if you know what I'm talking about...when
he does that Hulk Hogan thing in the fight...if you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah dawg...they got you.
It's in there.
Hey man...I'm trying hard not to tell y'all everything that I want to say, but I want
y'all to run out and see this movie.
It's not "The Asian Expendables" because this movie is better than The Expendables.
It's funny.
It makes you think.
There's some sad parts, but it's dope.
Like I hope someone takes notice of what Jesse Johnson pulled together and throws him a bigger
budget to make more movies like this one because it is so good.
Y'all won't even believe that this entire movie was filmed in 6 weeks total time.
I know it took him a year to edit the movie, but I just told y'all about the other movies
he also did with Scott Adkins.
Those movies, with the exception of Avengement, all came out in 2017.
Triple Threat was ready, but the studios sat on it for a year.
When you see this movie, just remember, they shot it in 6-weeks.
Tim Man choreographed the fights, and he was in charge of directing all of the fight scenes.
The way everything came together, I will describe it as if you took an all-star cast like you
would see in an Expendables movie, but if it was made in the style of an old school
Shaws Brother movie.
Like it's not just guns blazing and martial arts--it really feels like an old school martial
arts flick set in 2019--even though it was filmed in 2017.
So I want to give a shout out to all the actors-- Celina Jade playing Tien Xiao Xian, Tony Jaa,
Iko Uwais, and Tiger Chen as our heroes-- this is the first time you've had a group
of Asian heroes coming together and fighting a bunch of badguys from the West.
On the other side, there's Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, UFC champ Michael Bisping, Jeeja
Yanin, Ron Smoorenburg, and Dominique Vandenberg.
These guys did a great job coming together to work through some rather interesting conditions
filming in Thailand-- I really appreciate them, Jesse, Tim, and everyone else who played
smaller roles--including the 100 extras, all the other stunt people, and the folks working
behind the scenes to make this film happen.
I really hope there will be some kind of a sequel with Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen, and Iko
Uwais...and uhmm...if y'all ever need a black dude who knows Tai Chi to take some falls,
hey baby-- let me know, I'll do it just for the trip to Thailand!
I'd better get to training these kettlebells so I can put up an action reel on my YouTube
channel!
Okay--this isn't help Prince get into the action movie industry--this is my non-spoiler
review.
Hey y'all-- GET THIS MOVIE.
It comes out on Friday VOD.
You can probably get it on Google Play, Amazon, iTunes, and other places where you can buy
digital movies online.
The Blu-Ray disc comes out in May.
It hits theatres in China at the end of March, and I know it's going to be playing in theatres
around Germany in April.
So I don't know what else there is for me to say to get you to go see this movie, so
I'm gonna end on that note-- but yeah-- I know this isn't Endgame or Star Wars Episode
9, but I've been more hyped for this movie than anything else coming out in 2019--that's
just me, because this is the kinda stuff that I like.
Be sure to check back for my FULL REVIEW of the movie over the weekend, and if you like
Martial Arts movie talk, stay tuned to this channel-- I'll be talking about Master Z,
the new Wing Chun banger starring Max Zhang; and I'll be talking Ip Man 4 as soon as WellGo
USA sends me the teaser trailer.
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