WFG RATING: C

Republic Pictures presents a Tiger Style Media Films production. Directed by Robert Grasmere. Produced by H. Daniel Gross, Ryan Jaeger, and Shannon McIntosh. Written by H. Daniel Gross, Ryan Jaeger, and Louis Spiegler. Cinematography by Picha Srisannee. Edited by Scott Richter.

Stars Ludi Lin, Grace Vorananth, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Vithaya Pansringarm, Nicholas Hammond, Ron Smoorenburg, Cindy Sirinya Bishop, Abra Moore, Jaroslav Shvets, and Tofan Pirani.  

Ludi Lin goes from Mortal Kombat to having to stop a deadly warlord in the first of Tiger Style Media’s new four martial arts films.

Scott Schiff works as a CIA analyst who is also a part-time kickboxer, competing for a major promotion. During training for his next fight, he is called in on a mission as he is the only one capable of doing it. In Myanmar, a general is using his martial arts academy to began an upcoming tournament of fighters. However, it is a cover for an arms deal in which he will sell four canisters of a deadly nerve gas.

Upon his arrival to Myanmar, Scott must meet his contact Cho, who is going undercover as Scott’s trainer for the tournament. As Scott delves deep into finding the location of the canisters, he also must meet with Beckett, a veteran who was once the partner of Scott’s agent dad. However, when the general and his men suspect something is up, Scott finds himself teaming up with Cho’s daughter Mae to find the canisters and stop the general once and for all. 

When it was announced that a new company has emerged in the form of Tiger Style Media, the scenes from the new four pack of martial arts films look pretty good. However, the film starts with this film that seems to be a modern-day Enter the Dragon in terms of its plot. While there are a few good points, it seems like a typical B-movie that doesn’t really pull anything spectacular out of its arsenal. 

While Ludi Lin burst onto the scene in Saban’s Power Rangers in 2017 and made a bit of an impact as Liu Kang in the 2021 Mortal Kombat adaptation (and is returning for its sequel next year), he comes off as a green character in Scott Schiff. His kickboxing fight against Eoin O’Brien looks like something off the reins of Kickboxer or Bloodsport if you will. However, compared to the Thai stuntmen, he comes off a bit stiff at times and not as agile as his adversaries. 

Grace Vorananth makes a little bit of an impact in the role of Mae, the daughter of contact Cho, played by veteran Vithaya Pansringarm. It is great to see Pansringarm take on a good guy role when compared to his amazing breakout villain role in When God Forgives. Former Spider-Man actor Nicholas Hammond is quite great and makes the most of his role as Beckett, Scott’s father’s former partner and ally in this adventure who serves as a father figure to him. 

However, despite a mixed cast in terms of performances, the action seems okay but ends up more or less repetitive. The same moves tend to be thrown again and again and in certain cuts, we see the same move seen from a different angle but edited to look like something new. This editing makes the film kind of meh in the long run. 

Art of Eight Limbs is nothing spectacular but more of a run-of-the-mill B-movie that seems to be more in tune with a 80’s/90s B-movie film. Let’s hope the other three can make up for this one, because this is mostly a watch one and forget.