Black Friday (2001)

I love this movie so much

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Best movie ever!

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

You know, I always feel really sorry for Gary Daniels for not making it bigger than he has. OK, so he isn't exactly a great thespian by any stretch of the imagination but in terms of martial art skills, our Gaz is without doubt, one of the very best the West has to offer. How sad then that he has invariably found himself landed in some rather mundane affairs at best. I also find it doubly sad to compare the wonderful production values of something along the lines of the criminally underrated, Fist Of The North Star to the vast majority of his subsequent efforts. Such is the case of the film reviewed here for instance, which if the truth be told, more closely resembles a student film in terms of production quality. Shot on cheap video stock, this somewhat bland effort meanders along pretty aimlessly, effectively completely wasting Gary's talents with even the fight scenes themselves hardly ticking the boxes.I'll give it credit for a nice twist at about the hour mark but even this can hardly compensate for the decidedly lacklustre direction and excessive 'talkiness' that so permeates proceedings.For fellow Daniels' fans it's probably worth a peek but just don't get your hopes up as this will likely leave you sorely disappointed. A real shame.

Let's start with a quote: "The soundtrack was done by a musician from the Sacramento band Far" Absolutely FALSE, three bands music was showcased in this movie all of which are/were Christian bands (strange considering the dialogue of the movie.) "Project 86" - the rock stuff, Material from an album called Analogue from former label-mates of mine "Virus" from Springfield MO. originally, and 2 tracks from from my former 2 person band "prophecy of Panic" from the Inland Empire area of Southern California east of LA.Though I thought it was fantastic to have my music be put in a movie I couldn't help but notice that we were not asked if our music could be used. I only found out about this movie while searching for net info and chatter about my band. Through net searches I was finally able to locate the director and writer Darren Doane and I spoke with him about the lack of asking for permission and he confessed that he failed to contact my band before his budget for the film ran out. He said that the distributor had to finish the post production work on this movie due to his lack of funds and swears he asked the distributor to clear all the music before going to the print. As it turned out, we were never contacted and the movie was subsequently released with 2 of my personal tracks without permission or compensation. Some of my earlier stuff can be found on I-tunes and I am still debating on putting up a myspace page. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about my music or otherwise.

Black Friday is an awesome actioner! I just totally dig the cool music and the rad camera angles! The color content was toned perfectly and the fight scenes were flawless! Martial Arts and pure action fans, Own Black Friday Now!

This is an action thriller about a man`s family that is held hostage by masked terrorists and plans to get revenge! This is a low budget movie that has it`s ups and downs but it is entertaining if you can get by the bad music that is stuck on one beat,horrible dialogue,bad effects,bad color,way off camra work,and a conversation that goes nowhere for about fifteen minutes. We looked at the box and saw Gary Daniels was holding a katana sword and We found out that he didn`t even have a sword at all in the movie so don`t plan on seeing Gary use a sword on anybody. Now for the good stuff about Black Friday. It has a few fight scenes that last a long time and there is some good shooting scenes aswell. These scenes however are tilted and discolored by the camra so it`ll seem different. Black Friday is a movie that doesn`t have the greatest production and fight/shooting sequences so its not no Steven Seagal movie but if you are a fan of Gary Daniels this is a must see and a must buy or even if you are a movie lover that loves martial arts and shooting this is something to check out!