Sean’s movie thoughts

Mexicali is really good. Bren Foster stars as an Australian soldier who has retired to Mexico. He retired but he retains his special skills . One day he has to use his special skills after an encounter with a drug lord's son. There is a price to be paid for that. Foster gets to show off his fighting skills. This is a worthy follow up to Life After Fighting and it might be better.  Kris Van Damme has a role as a henchmen. It was nice to see him. I don't think his character was supposed to be Mexican but his character's background is not detailed.  Louis Mandylor appears, briefly, as his character from the Debt Collector series, which is pretty good. (The director of those films wrote this one.) He compares Foster's character to his partner French (played by Scott Adkins).  Now a movie pitting Foster vs Adkins needs to be made (someone on Twitter suggested this). This review  is fair. Maybe I like the film more than the reviewer did.

 I liked Life After Fighting. This film is set in Australia. Actor Brent Foster directed and wrote this movie. He stars as a former professional fighter named Alex who now teaches martial arts. He gets involved with a student’s parent, probably not the wisest idea. She has a ex-husband, who seems like a bad guy. Two girls, one is the daughter of a woman who works for Alex, are kidnapped. The plotting is not great. Perhaps the movie is 30 minutes longer than it needs to be. There is one subplot the movie could have (and maybe should have) dropped .  Foster is likable in the lead role and the last thirty or forty minutes are amazing as Alex fights the villains as they invade his dojo.  The last 30 or 40 minutes are as almost as good as the last act of City of Violence. If you have never seen the City of Violence, you might not appreciate this comment but I really like the City of Violence. I am not familiar with Foster but if he gets to make another movie, I’d be really int...