The Purifiers (2005)

Lack of good storyline.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

"the Purifiers" is a movie with practically nothing to recommend it.The direction is sloppy and it never overcomes its low budget. The script is derivative of other more successful films without any understanding of the elements which made the originals successful.Performances are pretty amateurish,with Dominic Monaghan phoning in his performance.Editing is awful.All of these faults could be overlooked if the martial arts were any good but the fight scenes ( which if I recall correctly all take place in slow motion) being ineptly staged and filmed.There are better movies than this in any genre you care to name.Avoid.

If you look at the DVD you might be interested to rent or buy it... Don't make that mistake. When I was looking at the DVD on the video club, story was looking promising, Dominic Monaghan, Karate, Science-fiction,cute actress, everything that could make a movie fun to watch. But it doesn't, not even near fun to watch. -Dominic Mohaghan have the 4th role in this movie but they tried to sell that movie in Canada with him on the DVD. -Combat scenes are bad, too many slow motion -No sex, no gore, no real sci-fi except 2-3 scenes at the beginning. Basically NO REASON to rent/buy/copy this DVD. I don't even know why Dominic Monaghan accepted to be in this movie...

I will agree that this movie kind of jumps and goes a bit too fast and does not develop any kind of character base - besides for the main character John. Which leaves the audience not really caring whenever some of the supporting characters bite the dust, due to you have no real intro to them or their purpose in the movie other than they just get served.It almost reminds me of the old school 80's flicks like 1990 bronx warriors, or prayer of the rollerboys. Which both had good ideas but really didn't live up to the hype that one would have wanted.Now i'm not saying that this movie sucked, I actually quite enjoyed it probably because I'm a martial arts nut and commerical artist so I tend to get more into back story's and overall meaning of the movie more then the actual story of the flick.I would recommend that if you are the type of person that likes to read into movies more than what they try to show then give it a shot (just don't expect to follow the movie right off the bat). Otherwise you might be better off renting to old school movie The Warriors which follows the same type of plot, Of one gang trying to get back home from a meeting with rival gangs whom try to kick their butt while they try to get back home.

Before you read on, I'm not positive this is a spoiler, or at least part of it, that's why I checked the box.I loved it! I mean, yeah the plot was a little...shady??...um, mehish. The cinematography was beautiful and the lighting was really...experimental, but it worked. The only thing I didn't like (besides the language and the mehish plot) was the split screen parts. It was too much to be watching and too fast.Dominic however, was fantastic (maybe I'm a bit biased?)and I'm really pleased to see him in a darker sort of role. He got out of his comfort zone and I loved it.