Doesn't touch the original

Rating: 5/10 (3 April 2010)

I watched the original when I was a kid and have watched it several times over the years and have always enjoyed it. When I saw the trailers for this remake, I was excited but also weary that Hollywood would take such a wonderful movie and destroy it. And I was partly right after watching the new movie last night.
If you are into non stop action movies with very little dialog or story then this movie would be for you, however it takes a lot more than that to get good ratings from me. They changed around the story to make it revenge based instead of love. The main star Persius goes from being a fisherman to automatically knowing how to fight and being fearless like a pro as if he was automatically granted that knowledge without informing the audience. The fights all seemed very short and made Persius out to be almost untouchable as he doesn't have very much trouble with whatever he fights.
I won't buy this on DVD when it is released.