Savage Dog (2017) (original) (raw)

Indochina, 1959. A Wild West town controlled by the criminal class: Vietnamese warlords and European war criminals. Den-Dhin-Chan Labor Camp is run by four such dangerous men. The worst prison in the land, it is here that a European, former-champion boxer Martin Tilman (Scott Adkins) has made a name for himself fighting tournaments, on which wealthy criminals gamble in high stakes events. When Tilman is due for release, he just wants to return home, but the corrupt forces running the jail will do everything in their power to keep him locked down. When all that Tilman holds dear is taken away ...(more)

Indochina, 1959. A Wild West town controlled by the criminal class: Vietnamese warlords and European war criminals. Den-Dhin-Chan Labor Camp is run by four such dangerous men. The worst prison in the land, it is here that a European, former-champion boxer Martin Tilman (Scott Adkins) has made a name for himself fighting tournaments, on which wealthy criminals gamble in high stakes events. When Tilman is due for release, he just wants to return home, but the corrupt forces running the jail will do everything in their power to keep him locked down. When all that Tilman holds dear is taken away in a vicious act of violence, he is forced to confront the five men responsible and take his revenge. (less)

Director: Jesse V. Johnson
Starring: Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, JuJu Chan Szeto, Cung Le, Vladimir Kulich, Keith David
Producer: Scott Adkins

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Review by Brian Orndorf, August 2, 2017

5 / 10

Every now and then, a Scott Adkins actioner will come up for review. The next generation Jean-Claude Van Damme (starring in the recent �Hard Target 2� isn�t going to help quiet this comparison), Adkins likes to work, maintaining a steady stream of DTV titles that emphasize his martial arts training and cinematic stance, keeping up an action hero tradition that�s largely ignored these days for grungier, morally dubious tales of criminality. Looking to stretch a bit, moving away from contemporary headbangers, Adkins takes the title role in �Savage Dog,� which is actually a period piece, though o ...read more...

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