Broken Path (2008)

Fresh and Exciting

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Renamed as Broken Fist in the £1 shop where I found this, I can state with absolute honesty that I wasted my money.Starting out as a serious film, night falls and preparing for bed, a couple is suddenly attacked by a masked man with a knife diving at them from across the room. Another masked man who apparently had no lines throughout the film (I couldn't make it to anywhere close to the end so can't say), then pops up to grope the wife and constantly - very annoyingly - heckle.Anyway, the former Power Rangers dude seems like he's been killed when he spits copious amounts of blood after having his chest stamped on, but instead of more stomps ensuring his end, they imbue him with super-human endurance and the film turns into a cuss-version of the aforementioned kids' programme, as men are kicked and somersault through the air on impact.I said that the former Black Ranger got super-human endurance and it's true, because for the next 10 minutes I managed to watch, he fights tirelessly against a growing number of assailants with a vigour unmatched by professional sporting athletes! Hmm, obviously, it's because he's a ninja.There is a wafer-thin plot (which fails to explain why the night suddenly turned into the middle of the day when they go outside), but the sheer ridiculous fights - and I'm a HUGE kung-fu film fan - woeful acting and tone that said the director had absolutely no idea what feel he wanted for the film, were too huge an obstacle to over-come.This film will doubtless change it's name to Broken... something else in an effort to hide from the fact that it's an appalling bag of shite, but it shall forever be Broken and you'd be better off saving your pound for a McCheeseburger... which I'm sure you could at least get through.

Sorry, but I cannot for the likes of me understand how this piece of garbage can have a 7.0 rating here! It makes a mockery of the rating system.Rarely have I ever came across such a terrible piece of rubbish as this so called "Movie" It is 90 minutes of pathetic kicking and bitch slapping, that is all it is - nothing more, so if you like to sit for 1 1/2 hours watching a bunch of ham actors grunting slapping kicking (cuddling a teddy bear) then I feel sorry for you.I just cannot understand how it got its rating of 7, if it had made 2 it was doing well.The only redeeming feature about this movie is when it finally ends, and that should have happened after about 2 minutes.Absolute garbage.

hello everyone it has been a while since i wrote about a movie, almost two years, i think, well i seen many many many many many movies, and many more, and many more, i think you get the point, well here is another review, broken path a movie, that you should know better ( i am guessing that you love kick a$% action movies), but i will bet 10.00 or more you don't know this movie called broken path, you might think my the title that it is a western or something like that. No this movie is one of the most enjoyable action movies i have seen in a long time, and i watch a a lot of films, too many but what the heck i love them all.back to the movie broken path, ah yes broken path, a movie that was made in the year 2008 yeah 2008 why is it now just getting a real release on DVD about a week ago in 2012, why why!!!!!!!!! why on earth we have three transformers movies, (yeah i said three or wait they are making a fourth one holy &&&&) yeah but it took 4 years to get on DVD, wow, i will get the review soon, but i needed to get this off my chest, broken path starts with a abduction of a child and moves up 20 years or so, and so we start the movie with a family having a family gathering, with Johnny Yong Bosch and Pamela Walworth as a married couple throwing a picnic for the whole family, they have a daughter, and they live in a small farm, as the party draws to a close the daughter get sent off with the other family member, and the couple have a night alone together, we soon find out that they have moved many times in the last couple of years, but why.... all of sudden the couple is attacked buy four crazy mother *******$$* with masks and knives and what to kill johnny and his wife (lovely) wife pamela, and they have to fight FIGHT i say for there lives, well that is the whole movie.it is one of the most entertaining movies yeah i said movies i have seen in a long time, in the 90 minutes we get action drama action drama action action action action gore action gore action gore action, i think you get the point, the performances are actually good , yeah i know a action movie with good performances, yeah crazy both johnny and pamela are good and believable as a couple, and to get to the point why and i am asking very nicely is Johnny Yong Bosch not a bigger star yeah i know he got his start with power rangers but so what, he could be one of the brightest action stars if given the right material, and this one is it baby, he fights like a son of *********, and lets not forget about Dan Southworth who turns up late in game and plays johnny "friend" who tries to help him, he puts in a great physical performance, and a good performance, why these two are not better know i sure as heck don't know.koichi sakamoto is a famous action director who first got his star doing action stunts for many 90's movies staring Gary Daniels and jeff wincott, and then came his big break with action direction of guyber 2 and then drive the great action classic with Mark Dacascos , and then he started making action direction for power rangers, well this is his masterpiece, the direction is solid but the fight direction ( which is actually almost the whole movie is really solid hong kong style solid, heck better than most of hong kong stuff in the last 10 years or so solid yeah that good) is great. the fight scenes are long takes with hard falls i mean really hard falls and what seems like also full contact blows yeah wow all respects for everyone in the film, the fights are mixture of kung fu and kickboxing and other forms, look i am not a master of martial arts but i seen more movies than more then 90% of all humans so i know my stuff, everything is just excellent, know what puts the movie over for me at least is the violence the violence's is high through the whole film, i mean everyone gets there a77 kicked 5 ways to Sunday and keep going and keep going, and keep going, but like i said what puts the movie over the top fun for me is the gore almost nearly every kill is gore and maybe not George Romero in gore it is still gory with one moment, yeah you will know the moment near the end. A- for the film and A+ for action

I have to say that the only reason that I watched this film, was because of the 7.0 out of 10 rating that it has on IMDb. I've read a review on here that rates it as good as Drive (with Ryan Gosling) I've read another review that rated this movie 10/10. I can honestly say that in my opinion, this film falls way way short of the reviews I've mentioned. To rate it as good as Drive, is to rate Dame Edna Everage as good looking as Jessica Alba....absolutely ludicrous! To rate it 10/10 is to rate it as high as The Godfather 1&2, The French Connection 1&2, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Kill List, Face Off....I could carry on believe me. The acting is some of the worst I've ever seen, no better than the worst soap operas on television at the moment and to say that the action scenes are pathetic is being kind. I would honestly rather sit and watch paint dry than this god awful movie.