“We look forward to seeing you fight.” Republic Pictures via Paramount has unveiled the official trailer for Art of Eight Limbs – the title is just another term for Muay Thai Boxing. The martial arts action movie is playing in select theaters now before it’s on VOD later this month. A small release that we’ve barely heard about. Four canisters of deadly VX nerve gas have fallen into the hands of an arms dealer in Myanmar. A CIA data analyst goes undercover to infiltrate a martial arts tournament that masks an auction of the deadly nerve gas, where he finds himself as the last hope against a time-ticking global threat. Can he pull off a win and save the world? Chinese-Canadian actor Ludi Lin (who played Liu Kang in the recent 2021 Mortal Kombat movie) stars as the CIA analyst. The cast includes Thai actors Sahajak Boonthanakit & Vithaya Pansringarm, both were in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, as the villains; along with Grace Vorananth, Nicholas Hammond, Ron Smoorenburg, and Tofan Pirani. This looks extremely cheap and derivative, even the fights don’t look very entertaining. It seems like an obvious direct-to-video dump… // Continue Reading ›