ACTION BOYS (Byung-Gil Jung, South Korea). Subtitled. 108 minutes. Sunday (May 3), 9:45 pm, Innis Monday (May 4), 4:15 pm, Cumberland 2. Rating: NN
Unemployed Korean stuntman Byung-Gil Jung picks up the director’s hat to chronicle the successes and failures of his former stunt school classmates.
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The product is Action Boys, a low-rent documentary that’s brimming with kick-thwack energy but is also annoyingly chaotic and meandering.
Jung gains access to the sets of Asian TV shows and movies, where demanding martial arts scenes and gravity-defying car stunts take a toll on the action junkies who risk life and limb for that final take.
But incoherent storytelling and a glut of unnecessary scenes make this doc self-indulgent.
