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Jiu Jitsu

2020

Dimitri Logothetis

Nicolas Cage, Marie Avgeropoulos, Frank Grillo, Rick Yune ...

2.4

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Action. Fantasy When Jake Barnes, a master Jiu Jitsu fighter, refuses to face Brax, an indomitable alien creature, the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Injured and suffering from severe amnesia, Jake is captured by a military squad unequipped to fight the merciless intruder who has descended upon the planet.

	Author	Review
United States	Steven Scaife Slant	"The film doesn’t display the mounting tension and proficient choreography that would otherwise make the material sing (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Kristy Puchko IGN	"Alien invaders, martial art battles, and Nicolas Cage? Sure. Why not? (...) I don't care if any of this makes any more sense, just give me more Cage!"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"Cage's latest film, 'Jiu Jitsu' must represent his career worst - and keep in mind, this is the man who made 1989's "Vampire's Kiss," in which he ate a cockroach."	NEG
United States	Rob Hunter Film School Rejects	"Jiu Jitsu is nonsense but action fans will be satiated by a talented cast kicking butt across fairly nondescript landscapes"	NEU
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Who needs this when there are new PlayStation and Xbox models?"	NEG
United States	Tambay Obenson IndieWire	"Even Nicolas Cage can’t salvage this half-baked sci-fi mess"	NEG
United States	Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"A timid, generic throwback that’s neither campy nor composed enough to be much fun (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Nicolas Cage gives it his all (...) The action sequences are weirdly extended and bland, like game-play action (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Keith Phipps Polygon	"It’s hard not to get a little bored seeing variations on the same Michael Bay/Paul Greengrass-derived immersive, middle-of-the-action approach"	NEG

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