A young woman awakens to find herself in a room lying on a cold concrete floor. She does not know where she is. There is only one exit and she follows it into a corridor of concrete and stone lined with steel doors. There she meets Sabrina (Zoe Bell), dressed similarly in sweats and a white shirt, looking as bewildered as the young woman. Wary of Sabrina the woman hesitatingly follows her into a small circular room at the end of the corridor. A steel door slams shut behind her and Sabrina pounces on the woman. Sabrina will not stop until the woman lies dead.
The premise of this low budget film is very simple. Wealthy couple Elizabeth and Joseph (Sherilyn Fenn and Doug Jones) kidnap women with hand to hand fighting skills (bare knuckles brawling, ju jitsu) and force them to fight to the death in a competition staged for the ultra wealthy. If the women refuse to fight then their loved ones will be murdered. There's a bit of back story, lead character Sabrina's being the most fleshed out, but the main focus is two women in an enclosed space brutally attacking one another with fists, elbows, knees and feet. And it is brutal. The fight scenes are well staged and varied enough that they never grow repetitive or boring. Zoe Bell (who is also a producer) puts in a solid performance that goes a long way to making her character likeable. The other characters are just there to be pummeled.
Despite the lack of plot the film kept me interested and I wanted to know what happens to Sabrina.
**1/2 out of ****
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