Blood and Bone is
a simply constructed, competently shot fight movie.
Michael Jai White plays Isaiah Bone, an ex-convict trying to
get by in LA. He fights in
elaborately staged “underground” matches whose production values would make Don
King burn with envy. Of course, he
catches the eye of the local top thug, played with relish by the underappreciated
Eamonn Walker (who nailed the role of Howlin’ Wolf in the underseen Cadillac
Records.). Oooh, there’s
gonna be fightin’.
Ok ok ok. You
don’t queue up a movie like Blood and
Bone to revel in intricate plotting and razor-sharp dialogue. How is the fightin’? It’s fine, really, but nothing
spectacular. Michael Jai White is
a competent martial artist, but his choreographer lets him down with simple
matches that lack spectacle. I
rocked along well enough for an hour and a half, but the only fight I remember
as of this writing is the very first one.
I hoped for more from Blood and
Bone.
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