If anything, the picture does hint at a possible role for Marinas following a growing career in stunts that recently lended him a small role as the MMA fighter opposite Tiger Chen in Keanu Reeves’s 2013 directing debut, Man Of Tai Chi, and for what it’s worth, it’s much deserved. Marinas has gained a significant online following as a leading voice for netizens through viral tricking and freerunning videos for sometime now, on top of excelling in stuntwork for a good handful of films like the first two Expendables films (2010-2012), After Earth (2013) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), as well as assisting fight coordinator Chad Stahelski for Gary McKendry’s Killer Elite (2011) and designing the action for the release of Insurgent this March.
All things considered, Marinas‘s role on the film’s action and overall performance will surely reinvigorate fans who’ve been waiting to see more from Florentine following his continued success with Adkins in last year’s sequel gem, Ninja: Shadow Of A Tear. Plus, it’s an extra bit of reprieve for the growing niche in a new year that will see much more prominence for Adkins, whose next major apearance will be this Spring opposite action star and debut director Wu Jing’s IMAX/3D commando action spectacle, Wolf Warrior, followed by helmer Valeri Milev’s long-awaited zombie thriller, Re-Kill, and the upcoming U.S. release of James Nunn’s groudpounding revenge flick, Green Street Hooligans: Underground among others.