I really think that Rico should have stayed with the small roles for a while, at least long enough to get rid of his extreme Dutch accent.
That's also the first problem with this movie, a lot of the actors are not native English speakers but the movie is in English, so you have your typical Dutch-English, Nordic-English, German-English, Slavic-English, etc.
It just sounds a bit like the Tower of Babel or a random holiday resort around the Mediteranean during summertime.
The acting....some are decent actors like Frank Grillo and Rona-Lee Shimon, but most of them kinda look like extra's with too much script I don't think Rico is doing such a bad job in his first "big role", but what I really don't get is why he's not doing more with his martial art skills.
For Pete's sake he has been the world champion of kickboxing for allmost 10 years now. He can actually fight.
He can do all the fancy stuff Jean-Claude Van Damme did or Dolph Lundgren, he can probally kick both their asses at the same time, but all the fighting is more brawling or suddenly over the top Jacky Chan style ?!??
Normally Rico is also well known for his looks, but in this movie with that scrubby beard he looks a bit like a bum
Just a lot of missed chances, I hope he'll get something new quickly and some English lessons...
That's also the first problem with this movie, a lot of the actors are not native English speakers but the movie is in English, so you have your typical Dutch-English, Nordic-English, German-English, Slavic-English, etc.
It just sounds a bit like the Tower of Babel or a random holiday resort around the Mediteranean during summertime.
The acting....some are decent actors like Frank Grillo and Rona-Lee Shimon, but most of them kinda look like extra's with too much script I don't think Rico is doing such a bad job in his first "big role", but what I really don't get is why he's not doing more with his martial art skills.
For Pete's sake he has been the world champion of kickboxing for allmost 10 years now. He can actually fight.
He can do all the fancy stuff Jean-Claude Van Damme did or Dolph Lundgren, he can probally kick both their asses at the same time, but all the fighting is more brawling or suddenly over the top Jacky Chan style ?!??
Normally Rico is also well known for his looks, but in this movie with that scrubby beard he looks a bit like a bum
Just a lot of missed chances, I hope he'll get something new quickly and some English lessons...