I don't normally DO action or martial arts films. I'm a girly girl. But every so often you have to relent and let the boyfriend watch something HE wants.The Purifiers was it. He followed the production of this in magazines in the UK like Impact and Combat along with another UK action feature. We had a double bill of this and Richard Jobson's 'Purifiers'.Comparing the two is like chalk and cheese (although they both share similar actors and stunt men and where made around the same time). One is interesting. Enjoyable. Fun. And exciting. The other is The Purifiers.If you have the choice of watching one or the other Left For Dead is the one to go with.This film is just dull, pointless and badly acted toss. Alexander should be shot for crimes against acting. Oh well could be worse... at least I had the momory of Left For Dead to erase this!

Wow. Just . . . Wow. It's movies like this that make me wonder how some people even began to think they could get anywhere in the business.This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Ever. The way this movie was directed has "omg, I think I'm a freaking genius" splotched all over it, but sadly, nobody but this lame director will agree with that.The absolute *worst* part of this film is the editing. It's atrocious. Shots that should be longer are WAY too short, and shots that should be shorter are WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too long. I mean... I'm seriously astonished here. What were they thinking? The second worst part of this film is the fighting - if you call it fighting. It's sad. Really. It will make you depressed.Man, and to think I wasted almost an hour and a half of my precious time on this. Reader, do yourself a favor and don't even go near this... This "film", as it claims to be.

Alright, here it goes. Just in case someone doesn't know it already,*SPOILER* Dominic Monaghan is a bad guy. I don't know how it was in the UK, but in the US (North Carolina to be exact) the cover of the DVD has a picture of Dom, and makes him out to be this awesome kung-fu dude. I didn't buy this movie to see Dominic Monaghan be a stupid freak. He's the awesomest hobbit ever. So I buy this movie (like an idiot, tricked by the nonsensical DVD case) so I can see sweet hilarious Dominic Monaghan kick butt summer fun, and am seriously saddened by the betrayal and, hence, wasted $10. Otherwise, the fighting was sorta cool, but the story wasn't, and who cares 'cuz Dom sucked.

The Purifiers could have had a better run, but instead the movie in every detail stumbled over its own feet. The movie tries to be art-like by adding a new genre, the Scottish martial arts genre. Yet instead of art the movie tends to be a walking cliché with an original idea. I do believe that the actors tried, but like any pretty good actor with a dodgy script, trying just leads to over acting, and over acting just might as well throw a rose on the grave of any decent profits. However, being a marital arts movie there is a scene in a Chinese restaurant that was hilarious, not intentionally funny, but still. Have a couple of pints, lose the ability to add two plus two, sit back and relax, and this movie will be GREAT! Still one can only take so much of unrealistic, slow motion fight scenes. There is not enough background information on the Purifiers to give the viewer any emotional attachment to the main characters; there are too many gangs to allow any tension to build a climatic moment. Overall, a nice try, but nothing ground breaking and entertaining enough to make me watch or recommend this movie.