The Purifiers

Starring:Kevin McKidd, Rachel Grant, Gordon Alexander (III), Dominic Monaghan, Amber Sainsbury, Robyn Kerr, Jamie Cho, Fraser James, Rico Pillai, Luke Sharaz, Patrick Ng, Atesh Salih, John Edwards (XVIII), Shiraz Hussain, Chris Johnstone (IV), Fiona MacMillan (II), Sarah Riddel, Karen Parr, Pamela Clarke, Lewis Macleod
Director: Richard Jobson
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
The Purifiers, a group of young men and women highly skilled at the art of Tae Kwon Do fight an alliance of gangs led by a corrupt leader in this stylish action film.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary with Director Richard Gobson
Theatrical Trailer

Average customer rating:

pretty bad
Extremely bad
A Pretty Good First Effort
interesting and well-crafted gang thriller
Possibly worse then Kick boxer 4

The Purifiers
Starring: Kevin McKidd , Rachel Grant , Gordon Alexander (III) , Dominic Monaghan , and Amber Sainsbury
Director: Richard Jobson
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0009S4IG0
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Description

The Purifiers, a group of young men and women highly skilled at the art of Tae Kwon Do fight an alliance of gangs led by a corrupt leader in this stylish action film.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary with Director Richard Gobson
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

pretty bad.......2007-06-27

Can not believe I bought this, watched about half of title, couldn't take it any more, removed it from my DVD player, and right into the trash can.
Don't waste your money

Extremely bad.......2007-03-18

What happens when you rip-off the plot of the Warriors and combine it with a future world and cruddy kung-fu action scenes? You get the Purifiers; an even more cruddy allegory about a street gang who performs good moral services that becomes the target of every other street gang under the order of Moses (Kevin McKidd of Trainspotting and HBO's Rome) who is basically this movie's version of Cyrus from the Warriors, only he doesn't die in the beginning. Moses has his sights set on Purifiers leader John (Gordon Alexander, who also did the fight choreography) since the both of them have a past together, or something like that. The saddest part of the Purifiers is that it seemed like there was an actual interesting (somewhat) story to tell here, but it all gets lost in the mix of annoying quick-cut editing, terrible acting, atrocious dialogue, and lame slow motion fight sequences that we've seen thousands of times before, and done much better as well. If the film has one thing going for it, it's that it's a low budget movie, yet it doesn't always look that way. That aside, there's nothing else redeeming about the Purifiers one bit. Lord of the Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan appears on the cover of the DVD, and he's in it as well, but he's not the main attraction here (and appears to sleepwalk throughout much of the running time), so even his fans will be disappointed.

A Pretty Good First Effort.......2007-01-26

I think the other reviewers should give it a rest and accept this movie for what it is; a fairly creative and entertaining action flick. I saw it by accident on Starz a couple a night ago and was pleasantly surprised. I've read other reviewers raving about "The Warriors". People, that was a long time ago and it was dumped on by people when it was initially released as promoting gang violence and some racial stereotypes. I think that we've become jaded as movie viewers and expect every movie to grab us. I feel that for the budget it had, it did a pretty good job. Anybody who compares this to the "Kickboxer" movies has got to be kidding. While I'm not saying it's a fantastic movie, I enjoy it in the same vein as I enjoy movies like "Boondock Saints". Let's lighten up people, a lot of the directors we rave about today started out with small flicks like this.

interesting and well-crafted gang thriller.......2006-05-31

Excellent version of the contemporary "warriors." Good action sequences, fabulous acting.

Possibly worse then Kick boxer 4.......2006-03-05

Ok, You tend to get films where you watch them and you get so in to the movie that you dont realise where the time went...how I wish this was one of those films. This is one of those absolutely terrible films where you wish you could reclaim the last 2 hours of your life so that you could waste it on something much more productive like watching paint dry.

First of all the script is so predictable that all of us managed to guess what the actors were going to say before they said it. The script is about as complex and thrilling as spitting chewing gum out in the street.

Ok, now that we have established that the film is terrible and the script is a complete waste of paper and ink I shall move on to the fight scenes.

Considering that this film uses martial artist with absolutely amazing abilities Ashley Beck, Shane Steyn, Chris Jones and Silvio Symac to name a few, it just really lets you down when the fight scenes do not involve these skills to be shown. Instead the fight scenes are totally unbelievable with a chubby biker chick in a white pvc outfit back handing a man and woman about a field. If you are lucky enough to be treated to a nice bit of kicking the director decides not keep the shot wide enough or at the right angle so that you may view the grace of the martial artists.

As one fellow reviewer stated this is a B-movie, however I believe that even B-movies would be ashamed of this film. The budget to this film makes Xena Warrior Princess look like it had the budget of Lord of the Rings.

This film fails where Kickboxer 4 somehow managed to get a few things right. If the director and editor were not laughed out of this business then it proves the World is not fair.

There are two reasons why you should buy this film :-
1. You wish to laugh yourself to death with the bad acting.
2. You wish to use the DVD as a shiny mug stopper when you realise you just wasted your money.

Overall I would give this film 0 out 5 however I have to select 1. My opinion... dont waste your life and paint that wall that your parents want doing.

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