Contacts | Blu-ray & DVD (Indiecan)
RELEASE DATE: November 10, 2020
On November 10, 2020, Indiecan Entertainment will release the Blu-ray for Alex Chung’s 2019 indie martial arts thriller, Contracts.
Contracts follows a team of assassins who become victims of a superior killer. The film took home Best Action Film and Best Fight at the 2019 Toronto After Dark Film Festival.
Contracts is directed by and starring Alex Chung, who also serves as a producer, editor and fight choreographer. Chung is perhaps best known for his stunt work on The Man in the High Castle, The Boys and xXx: Return of Xander Cage.
Contracts also stars Jermaine Carty (Haphead), Christena Gaunce (Teenage Love), Dan Sanderson (Martyrs – The Chronicles of Blood), Michael Carter (Heart Strings) and Kyle Stewart (Bike Cop: Begins).
Special Features:
- Crew Commentary
- Cast Commentary
- Featurette: Signed In Blood – The Making of Contracts
- Featurette: With My Bare Hands – Creating the Fights
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Trailers
Pre-order Contracts from Amazon.com today!
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This movie looks absurd, and I’m absolutely going to buy it.
So action snippets go by so fast, it’s hard to tell if the action is truly going to be as good as what’s presented. We’ll see. =)
I rented Contracts, and it was OK.
The action is pretty well done and reminded me of Eric Jacobus’ work with The Stunt People. It does get overly gratuitous at times with biting and eye gouging, but the rhythm and timing is well done.
The problem I had is that the movie moves slowly and there’s a lot of waiting in between action bits. Here you see that the characters are one dimensional and that the villain really over acts. I can’t be too harsh on this movie since it was low budget, but with a faster pace and more character development, it could have been better.
I was tempted to check this one out but your thoughts have dissuaded me otherwise (if only I’d also listened to you about ‘Kung Fu League’!). While I don’t mind a sprinkling of fight scenes, the narrative needs to be solid to hold my attention these days (I had the same issue with ‘Unlucky Stars’), and this sounds like it’s lacking. For me ‘Contour’ remains the pinnacle of low budget fight flicks, and is still as entertaining today as it was in 2006.
Thanks. I wouldn’t say this is one to avoid, but I just didn’t think it was special. I actually liked Unlucky Stars, and it had better pacing than Contracts. Contour is something special.
The movie itself isn’t good and has a lot of cringe worthy acting and terrible jokes, but the action is so plentiful and amazingly choreographed that I have to give it a high rating.