It's Difficult NOT To Enjoy This Movie

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

"Pre Vis Action" is a live action short film from this year (2016) and in the months since its release on Youtube, it actually managed to gain a whole lot of clicks on the world's biggest video website. The reason may be that the writer and director of this black-and-white film is Gareth Evans from Wales, a man who has made several fairly successful films over the last decade, some of them similar to this one in style and subject. The lead actress here is Hannah Al Rashid and we see her go up against several assassins. It is probably not too surprising that there is no character development or anything other than the fighting because it is such a short movie. I myself still would have liked to know who the main character is in order to cheer for her. She could always be one of the bad guys you know. I guess the unfair battle system (2 vs. 1) is supposed to tell us she is a good character and we should hope she wins. But honestly, I never really did as much as I would have liked. I think this film is a bit of style over substance. It may work as part of a film, but as a film itself, it is not a success. Thumbs-down. Not recommended.