The premise for this movie is basically a classical western story – stranger comes to town and delivers justice. The rehashed plot is nothing new , with elements taken from movies like "The outlaw Josey Wales "(1976), "Billy Jack" (1971) , " Walking tall " (1973) and "Pale rider" (1985). Actually the plot is so similar to "Pale rider" you could call "The Missionary man" a remake of Eastwood's classic. It's an The movie has a washed-out, grainy look that doesn't do it any favors. Due to a down-conversion gone wrong from HD to DVD, the picture quality and colors don't match the HD master that was approved by director Dolph Lundgren. I guess Lundgren wanted to do an arty action movie . The sad truth is that Lundgren doesn't seem to know s**t about lighting. All the sets are dimly lit and the characters are in perpetual shadow. My eyes were tired after a while.
Lundgren's character wears sunglasses , rides a motorbike and reads Bible. Sounds cool , right ? Unfortunately the potential for interesting character is wasted. We never get to know anything about him to the very end of movie . He doesn't have any personality and there isn't a real reason for the audience to like Lundgren's character or care about him . The plot holes are terribly annoying - who the hell was the weeping guy , we never learn what Lundgren did for a living , where he came from , what's with his relationship with JJ and Jarfe.
At 90 odd minutes not that much happens. There are many , too many boring, talky bits and few weak, jerky, short fight scenes. There should have been more excitement and edge. Dolph just sort of lumbers around and tries to look cool. The movie is lifeless , uninteresting and forgettable after few minutes.
"The Missionary man" is crap. I give it 1/10.
Lundgren's character wears sunglasses , rides a motorbike and reads Bible. Sounds cool , right ? Unfortunately the potential for interesting character is wasted. We never get to know anything about him to the very end of movie . He doesn't have any personality and there isn't a real reason for the audience to like Lundgren's character or care about him . The plot holes are terribly annoying - who the hell was the weeping guy , we never learn what Lundgren did for a living , where he came from , what's with his relationship with JJ and Jarfe.
At 90 odd minutes not that much happens. There are many , too many boring, talky bits and few weak, jerky, short fight scenes. There should have been more excitement and edge. Dolph just sort of lumbers around and tries to look cool. The movie is lifeless , uninteresting and forgettable after few minutes.
"The Missionary man" is crap. I give it 1/10.