Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

That was an excellent one.

Absolutely Fantastic

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Williams is an assassin, Kelso a kick boxer. Together they team up to take on the man who wronged them, crime boss Kincaid. They fight henchmen, they kill henchmen and they shoot henchmen. There is a plot, although that never gets in the way of the often pointless killing of more henchmen.Did I mention a few people got killed in this? Funny enough after watching it the first time (from a recommendation) I bought the film cheap of Ebay and decided one drunken night to do a drinking game. Every time a henchman with a beanie hat gets killed you take a drink. I lost count at 45. Any more I fear I may have died! Left For Dead is a low budget film. If you take it on those merits it actually ticks all the boxes of films i like... brash, bold, violent, funny, silly and one where 2 hours feels like ten mins.Okay compare it to Mission Impossible 3 or similar and yes the film will look weak. But as far as cheesy 80's action films go, this isn;t bad at all.Enjoyable, fun and frivolous this is a film for people who like fun films.

The film the term 'So bad it's good!' was invented for. This film has all the hall marks of a very bad 80's action movie. The kind of film that was frequented by Jeff Speakman, Michael Dudikof and Jeff Wincott. The kind of film you rented because the cover had ninjas and fighting drawn so badly that it looked more like your grand ma than Chuck Norris.The kind of film where the good guy gets shot, kicked, stabbed, beaten, blown up and yet still manages to take down the bad guys army of 200 highly trained soldiers.The kind of film that had a name like 'American Ninja', 'The Perfect Weapon', 'Ninja Exterminator', 'Invasion USA', 'Eye Of The Tiger', 'Kick Boxer' and 'Missing In Action'.The kind of film that I always chose at my local video shop over the higher budgeted star driven studio fair. The kind of film that, well, that I love so much.Don't get me wrong. Like the films mentioned above (and the many I have failed to mention), this isn't a masterpiece in terms of production value, acting or (sometimes) editing or direction but in terms of bang for buck well this film does what it says on the tin. In spades.And lets face it I never watched Segal movies for the character development or plot. I watched them because I knew, just for that hour and a half, that I'd get to see some tubby white guy kick the crud out of a bunch of bad guys in inventive and fun ways.But the strange thing is, for all its faults and over long running time, this film does just what I wanted. It offers an 80's styled action film that is true to the genre and superb fun to watch.So, in short, if your idea of a good film is Citizen Kane, Remains of the Day or Notting Hill this film is not for you.If however, like me, you grew up on a staple diet of action movies, body counts and ninjas then you 'Left For Dead' is that rare find… a butt kicking, head stomping 80's styled action romp that makes for almost 2 hours of mindless fun, bloody, guts and over the top martial arts moves.--eye--

From Jackie Chan to Jet Li, Bruce Lee to Wesley Snipes I'll watch martial arts movies just because they are martial arts movies.I've sat through Joseph Li movies, the best and worst of Jackie and now a few of the new crop of digital low-budget films that are appearing from all over the world.So in one weekend I sat down at watched Rolling With The Nines (at the cinema), The Purifiers, The Insiders and finally 'Left For Dead' The order of the day hear is death, murder and high octane martial arts. And it's a dish served very sweat….Lead actor Glenn Salvage is superb (and a little Segal like) but any film like this lives and breathes on it's bad guys and thankfully they are as bad as they come. Adam Chapman as Kincaid and the duo of Adrian Foiadelli (the scarily unhinged Taylor) & Kevin Akehurst (the deranged short fused Dylan) chew the scenery.Perfect? Well no. Maybe too much action, some questionable acting and a few continuity issues but come on lets be honest even films made for $50million can claim to have the same.What makes 'Left For Dead' stand out is that it has heart, soul and invention that makes up for it's small budget and DV trappings.This film has a death toll higher than any film since Commando and with that Arnie flick being one of my top flicks of all time that's not such a bad thing.If you want fun, death and kick arse action on a major level then 'Left For Dead' is your film. If you are expecting Hugh Grant and floppy hair... look elsewhere.

In the opening scene of 'Left for Dead' the low budget roots of this homegrown, self-funded British action film are painfully obvious. Thankfully the ambition and love of the genre that the filmmakers have clearly injected into the project are infectious and within minutes all its flaws are forgotten. With its straight-forward, engaging revenge storyline and numerous energetic and accomplished fight scenes 'Left for Dead' is a kick in the head for a genre that has come to rely too heavily on special effects and wire-work. Few filmmakers at this level of funding would even attempt to make such an elaborate, time-consuming and large-scale project, especially in a country in which genre films in general are a rarity, but the finished film stands as a testament to their success. The spirit and inventiveness of this back-to-basics action film puts some of the most expensive and explosive blockbusters to shame and needs to be seen to be believed.