Confessions Of An Action Star
Frank Sledge is the hottest Hollywood action actor. He is a mixture of Steven Seagal and Jean Claude Van Damme. This is the narrative of his rise, fall and rise again. It even does not seem to know what it is called because the title screen displays one title while the DVD cover has a different one.
Mockumentaries always have a thin line, of some good and some worse. On one hand, you have This is Spinal Tap and I would rate that around an eleven and on the other end you have Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary n which I gave a moderate 1.9 in my review. Confessions of an Action Star is somewhere in between of these two films, funny but at times too dull and monotonous.
Confessions of an Action Star is a film that parodies an action star who at first looks almost like Steven Seagal in appearance. Seagal began his life first as a martial artist, however, the main character of this movie called Frank Sledge started as a dancer. He picked up his skill from a parent figure Samantha, who grabbed him at a very young age and taught him dancing. He started off as a Chippendale dancer and soon after got his first film role.
The enjoyment can be derived in part from guessing the title of the original in relation to the parody. Let’s start with Bloodfight 2 and it is here, that the film is indeed entertaining and quite creative. “Well, I see what you did there,” says director John Hu, who does not approve of casting the lead actor of the first film again anyway.
The Asian Hu says, “I don’t get it. What makes you think just because I’m Jewish, I love kung-fu?” when the producer tells him that kung-fu is predominantly appreciated by ‘your people’. They went with the concept that the lead underwent so many plastic surgeries on his face that he is unrecognizable. If the rest of the movie matched these scenes, it would be a success.
Sadly, this film suffers significantly from pacing and filler-heavy slogs between certain sections towards the middle. That is somewhat salvaged by cameos of well-known people playing themselves. Angelina Jolie, Sean Young, Richard Lewis, Kelly Hu, Eric Roberts and Ernie Hudson all appear as themselves in the fictitious universe of Frank Sledge.
David Leitch, who also directed the mockumentary, acted as Sledge; the character he created the film around. Are you one of the people who is living under a rock and don’t know who leitch is? Well, do not count that as a loss. He managed to get all these big leech actors in his film because he is a stuntman in his other career.
Leitch has been cast in films like Blade, Fight Club, Ocean’s Eleven, Daredevil, The Matrix Revolutions, Troy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Serenity and The Bourne Ultimatum. His film character is reminiscent of a combination of Jean Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, and Wesley Snipes. As for the action hero, the film puts forward as the title hero, this is the one who will slowly rise and fall in this world like any B level action movie star.
In the process, he alienates people including the writer Will, the dance coordinator Glenn and his mentor Samantha. With such films as Below the Law and Out for Vengeance, he becomes loaded and then when he reaches the step where he shoots Jimbo (Rambo), he ends up back at zero.
The plot follows the rise and eventual downfall of a man who aspires to do good but takes a wrong turn somewhere. How does the film manage to treat his redemption? The last failed attempt at a comeback was in Traffic Jam, a Brett Radner film, after which he systematically starts training. The training is in the usual montages but more entertaining, which makes one reminisce the montage song in Team America: World Police.
While the sequence is quite comedic, the song itself is quite strange and was done better in Team America. The routine gets completed effectively at the end for a sequence which is apparently lifted raw from the movie Flashdance. The way it began, the film concludes in a very interesting and creative manner, that is, through an encore routine. The end sequence is followed by his return hit which is best defined as a cross between The Matrix and You Got Served.
This was genuinely one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a while, of course there are plenty of jokes, and plenty of stupid stuff that makes it funny. The director uses a few jokes in the picture that are defined in placement for maximum humor, the funniest character in my opinion is probably the black man who fakes getting blasted on the head in a movie, or dies from something, and the ex-gay priest is even funnier at times. Some of the jokes don’t seem to scare people to the very end, which adds context to viewing this work.
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