Film Review: “Fistful of Vengeance” (2022)

What you see is what you get.

As I have stated in my review for “Marry Me”, I want to make an extra effort to use my platform to highlight films that don’t get the mainstream treatment. A lot of these films usually end up on streaming, especially if they are mid-budget movies. In a world where our theaters and social media feeds are flooded with news of intellectual properties such as Marvel and DC 25/8, I’ve grown tired of hearing the same three complaints: “Ugh..Another Superhero movie?”, “Good God, another live-action Disney remake”, or “Why don’t they make anything original anymore?”. That last one is the most laughable because most of the people with these grievances are far too lazy to look beyond the mainstream theatrical landscape for solutions to such a crisis. I was too, until I embraced streaming as, not a replacement for theaters but, another avenue of entertainment.

Strolling onto the scene today is the martial arts action film, “Fistful of Vengeance”. Based on the Netflix Original show, “Wu Assassins”, Fistful of Vengeance stars Iko Uwais (“The Raid”) and Lewis Tan (“Mortal Kombat”). The film picks up directly after the events of “Wu Assassins” season one where superhuman Assassin Kai Jin (Iko Uwais) embarks on a revenge mission that becomes an all-out fight to save the world from an ancient threat that comes in…