Wow, first thing i would say is i never would think Gabriel's actor didn't get any martial arts training. He seem pretty good at it. Of course i wish i could have seen more of him, he didn't fight so much but what he did was pretty good and didn't seem like a guy with no training at in MA at all. I really like the cook too, didn't known him but he have pretty good skill in MA. As for the story, it got to me in many ways, as Gabriel wanna do whats right but at the same time dosen't want to do bad things do a guy he consider as a friend. But i got to say just like him i would have do the same choice, the character really got to me for that, cause for me the pattern is Honor, Loyalty and respect in that way, honor will always go before loyalty and loyalty will always go before respect. And i think Ray got it the wrong way as for him Respect was the first thing he wanted and owning the streets by any mean meant respect for him. I knew when i brought this that the director of Kickboxer(one of the great fighting movie) and Bloodsport(one of my favourite fighting movie) would deliver, but i didn't tough it would one i would freaking love a lot. Glad to have buy it and i got it for like 7 bucks, a ridiculous price considering its so good. One funny fact, its like in this movie you see WWE/F wrestler are way more actors than wrestling, as Roddy Piper was very believable and did a pretty good job, but as a wrestler he was awful in most of his matches...lol. Overall i am really happy to see this movie got good review here, which is rare for a martial arts movie. Of course there is always gonna be haters... but well you have to deal with them. And just for fun... the character on the cover is a no name doing the intro fight... I'm kind of curious why they didn't put a real character... you expect this guy to be the lead but he is really not.