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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Pound of Flesh should reasonably satisfy his core fans, even if they're more likely to watch it on VOD than in theaters.
Pound of Flesh
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- Canada
- 2015
- · 104m
Director
Ernie Barbarash
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
John Ralston,
Aki Aleong,
Charlotte Peters,
Darren Shahlavi,
Brahim Achabbakhe
Genre
Action
In China to donate his kidney to his dying niece, former black-ops agent Deacon awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. Stitched up and pissed-off, Deacon descends from his opulent hotel in search of his stolen kidney and carves a blood-soaked path through the darkest corners of the city. The clock is ticking for his niece and with each step he loses blood.
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58
The A.V. Club
The action hit being evoked here is "Crank."
38
Movie Nation by Roger Moore
A solid if occasionally silly B-picture of the sort that JCVD used to make, before “JCVD” suggested there might be more to him than mere “Muscles from Brussels.”
30
The Dissolve by Charles Bramesco
Barbarash doesn’t do much to compensate for the misshapen script, either. Fumbling camerawork and incoherent editing rob the film’s generous fight sequences of their oomph, and amateurish green screen hobbles a car-chase sequence.
25
The Playlist
[A] third-rate, run-of-the-mill actioner, which, for some reason, was edited to look like an episode of “CSI.”
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