Simon (Adam Ryan Rennie) hasn't got the slightest idea when some strangers drag him out of his car and throw him into the back of a truck - with four other guys, wh are just as clueless as he is. The only thing he does understand is the abductors don't want his (or anyone else's) money as they made no attempts to rob him when they had him at gunpoint. Plus, the other abductees are literally from all walks of life and seem to have nothing at all in common, not even common friends or enemies or the like ... and eventually, our quintet lands in a cell in a mansion somewhere in the middle of nowhere, and finally Marok (Dan Horton), boss of the abductors, shows up to tell his captives what's going on: They are pretty much doomed, as he has chosen a quintet of trained fighters to face them one on one in hand-to-hand combat - to the death. Which is kind of an initiation rite of his secret society. Now the main problem is, none of Simon's fellow captives is really trained in combat, and that was Marok's whole point, to have his fighters actually take lives as part of their initiation. Things are differently with Simon though, he's a trained Marine, he knows how to defend himself, how to kill, even without weapons ... and he soon makes a run for it. He's recaptured mind you, but he wounds one of Marok's fighters (Jonathan Cahill) so badly that he loses in the battle against one of the captives (Eric Mindel) - and that very fighter was Marok's brother. So now the whole story has become really personal ...

Now here's an action thriller that's sure to surprise you with its utterly original story - and that said, sure, it's far fetched, not denying this for one moment, but the story is told in a very compact and convincing way without the desire to explain away everything just for the sake of doing so, so that everything falls together very nicely and makes sense at least for the duration of the movie. And add to that a very well-paced storytelling effort and some very strong and bloody fight scenes, and you quite simply got yourself a pretty cool movie!

Initiation will be released in the USA and Canada on August 9th, 2016, if interested, do use the appropriate link below.

US: http://apple.co/28OFsFD

CA: http://apple.co/28QVYbg

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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