Screener Review: EYES OF THE ROSHI (2016)
It’s a tricky thing trying to cast a martial artist for a major role in a movie. It’s the kind of thing you don’t take lightly and it depends on what kind of film you’re going for to help execute your vision, and there definitely is one here in Jon Mark Nail’s latest feature effort, Eyes Of The Roshi. Is it the vision you would expect? Well, again, that’s entirely up to you, although there are critiques worth noting should you choose to look this title up when it’s released. On its face, the film is pitched as a nod to the cinematic style of the Coen Brothers and Quentin Tarantino, telling of an epic saga of tragedy, vengeance and redemption with a few doses of philosophy and spirituality to boot. We eventually meet Adam, thickly-accented Vientnamese-American drifter with extraordinary fighting skills whose pacifistic nature is often challenged by chance […]