What Price Survival (1994)
Reviewed by: tomliffe on 2001-06-23
Summary: A mixed bag
A swordplay film that tries to be different which is a good thing. Lots of men in suits and set in a more modern time to your average swordplay film. It's set in - maybe the 30's or 40's. It's like The Blade and Ashes of time style wise but not as good as either. Lots of fast edited swordfighting. I also noticed there wasn't any wires used in it (I think anyway). There was one part where a man jumped onto the side of the wall and I thought he'd jump into mid-air but instead he just jumped back onto the ground. Where this film fell is in the last half hour, it starts concentrating too much on the characters and because they weren't built up very well I was just bored by it. Lots of action though and it's definetly worth watching. There was also some dodgy background pub type music in some of the fight scenes which seemed very out of place :-) Maybe it was to try to catch the feel of the time in was set in?