High schooler gets rescued by a guy on the street when he is attacked and beaten up as part of the use of an app that sets up street fights. The idea is that if you win you get money. Soon things begin to spiral out of control.
Based on a manga this is a film you are going to love ot hate. Put me in the middle. While I like the characters, a lot of this didn't work for me. Don't get me wrong what is here is good, the trouble is that it's good the first time.... and maybe the second time. The problem is there is a samesness to what is happening here. The set ups feel similar as do the fights. If you look at how they are choreographed they seem to follow a similar flow. That may have worked if the way the sequences were staged was better. You can feel how the sequences were put together.
To be fair, I know part of the reason I wasn't as high on this film as I should have been except that I had watched all of the Big Bad Film Festival shorts and several of the shorts echoed the fights in this film. Some of the shorts played better for me.
Is the film bad? No, but it just didn't work for me.
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