A movie made for young men whose parents or girlfriends have insisted they put down their gaming consoles for one goddamn night or it's over, Dimitri Logothetis' Jiu Jitsu has all the barely-motivated action and sci-fi trappings of a middling videogame and, well, at least a little of the dramatic value.
Reteaming with Alain Moussi, star of his previous film Kickboxer: Retaliation, Logothetis finds nearly none of that film's tongue-in-cheek, pulpy appeal (modest though it was).
His only hope in that department, supporting player Nicolas Cage, occasionally keeps scenes from putting the viewer to sleep, but hardly justifies the existence of this monotonous, unimaginative actioner.
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