Underworld actor Kevin Grevioux brings his own comic book to life in this strange revenge/slasher/martial arts hybrid – sort of The Raid meets Battle Royale, if both films were made on a shoestring budget and were bad. Putting the creaky script, acting and visual effects to one side – this is low-budget filmmaking at its most apparent – writer-director Grevioux also fails to capture the urgency required of the genre, and as a result, much of the film feels leaden. However, most of the action holds promise, with an athletic cast put through their paces. Frank Grillo is no stranger to quick B-movie pay-checks – he plays the masked ‘King of Killers’, the best assassin in town, who invites other top assassins to a hotel in Tokyo (not the actual Tokyo, of course) where they attempt to kill him for a huge cash prize. Hunky Canadian martial artist Alain Moussi stars, a former super-spy whose wife was killed on one of his missions. Moussi is far from being the best actor in the world, but he’s obviously eager to stretch himself after his stoic turns in the rebooted Kickboxer films, and this is the closest he has come so far at something resembling charm. More importantly, his fighting skills are excellent; a sword fight with a geisha (played by stunt coordinator, Shara Kim) and an obscured smoke-filled showdown with Grillo being the stand-outs. There’s also room for MMA legend Georges St-Pierre, wasted in a John Woo inspired gun fu fight, and Stephen Dorff, who rounds off quite an interesting cast for what is clearly a nutty movie. You can’t fault the film for its ambition – any independent comic book adaptation released at the height of Marvel’s global dominance is a brave venture – but it ultimately falls short.