Darc (2018) Reviews

• Mediocre

  grantss2018-10-04

  A young boy, nicknamed Darc, witnesses his mother murdered by a Yakuza boss. Several years later and the boy is a man, and has just been released from jail. An Interpol agent organised his early release: he wants Darc to find his daughter who has been kidnapped by the same Yakuza boss. Darc now has two reasons to hunt the man down... Mediocre. The movie had the potential to a good, gritty action-drama but misses the mark in so many respects. The plot is pretty basic, full of holes and incredibly contrived. Nothing really makes sense, except that the plot is set up to maximise the number of action scenes. Heaps of shoot-em-ups and beat-em-ups just for the hell of it, just jammed in for no rhyme or reason. Lead performance is woeful. Nothing wrong with strong, silent types as the lead character but Tony Schiena overdoes the silent part, to the point of irritation. Quite unconvincing whenever dialogue or actual acting was required - I guess he was just there for the action scenes. It's not all bad though. The action scenes are done well and there is a momentum and intrigue to the movie that keeps it interesting. I guess there had to be - if you had a chance to think you'd realise just how dumb the plot is...

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• Old school action entertainment.

  Fella_shibby2018-05-26

  Saw this on a dvd. The trailer was amazing n the film a solid action packed entertainment. The plot is from the 80's. This is the director's first film as a director. Most of the Steven Seagal's 90's film's were produced by this director. So obviously a lottuva cliches n of course the one man take down the whole nasty business. This film has plenty of hand fights, gun shot sequences n some amazing sword fight too. Basically a yakuza film without the katana n tattoos would look fugazi. The male lead lacked the muscles n was a bit unconvincing cos the film never showed how he learnt sword fighting or hand combat. I found the actress Dawn Olivieri attractive. Will be watching Traffik only cos of her.

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• Great action film that I could easily watch again

  goonerchris-161-4283182018-05-02

  This is a great action movie, watched this without looking at any reviews and glad i did, from start to finish it was pretty good acting (your not going to get Oscar level acting in a film like this), action packed and a simple but well scripted story. I have not seen Tony Schiena in anything before, but judging solely on his acting and fight scenes in this film, I would watch a film just because his name was in the credits. Go watch this film, if you like your action films you wont be disappointed, there is some romance and adult subjects but mostly its action, action, action!

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• Ignore the positive reviews. Don't waste your time.

  bigtrouble82018-06-24

  Ignore the positive reviews written here by people who very likely worked on the movie. I listened to them and wasted 90 minutes of my life. The action is okay. The stunts were well done and there's at least one memorable fight. But the lead actor Tony Sheena has the charisma and acting prowess of a pork chop. I can see why everyone in the movie wanted to punch him in the face. He looks like a date rapist. I'm not saying he IS a date rapist... but he's exactly what you'd picture a date rapist to look like. Y'know what, let's just say he is one. That's probably accurate. Armand Assante is in this movie, which is surprising because I thought he was dead. Judging by his performance, I'm not convinced he isn't. The pork chop wrote this movie too, which explains almost everything. Except the plot of the movie. That's still a mystery. Something about people being upset that he keeps date raping people, maybe? I'm not sure. The women in this movie were wasted. They could have been far more interesting if they weren't just eye candy and props for the male actors. No one should ever let Julian Nasso direct another movie. The money spent on this trainwreck could have gone to feeding the homeless. Or acting classes for the date rapist. Or more clothes for those poor exploited girls on set. Anything but this.

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• Boring one

  amnr-004312018-08-15

  Boring movie and nothing was unexpected ! Story is an old fashioned one