Indebted to arcade fighting hits that prize complicated button-mashing combos over serious characterizations and drama.

| Feb 3, 2021

The action sequences are weirdly extended and bland, like game-play action from a first-person game.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 17, 2020

While Cage finally appears about 40 minutes into the film as an eccentric expert swordsman who makes paper hats in his spare time, the levity of his very presence provides some measure of a relief.

| Original Score: D | Nov 25, 2020

Nicolas Cage has worn a lot of things on his head over the years, but the Burmese fisherman's bonnet we glimpse at the beginning of the action-adventure romp Jiu Jitsu is something new. It's one of the few things in the movie that is.

| Nov 20, 2020

The makers of Jiu Jitsu should have gone full-Sharknado and admitted that they're banking hard on Cage's anything-goes image.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 20, 2020

Jiu Jitsu's weakest link may be its lousy fight choreography which is shot wide and low with stunt doubles who seem like they could really use a good nap.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2020

Jiu Jitsu feels like a deeply 2020 movie in that it is a barrage of WTF choices that hit without mercy until you either give in and go with the flow or just go mad. Or, hey, maybe both.

| Nov 19, 2020

Jiu Jitsu has all the barely-motivated action and sci-fi trappings of a middling videogame and, well, at least a little of the dramatic value.

| Nov 19, 2020

Cage's latest film, "Jiu Jitsu" must represent his career worst - and keep in mind, this is the man who made 1989's "Vampire's Kiss," in which he ate a cockroach.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 18, 2020

Once it kicks into gear, it never feels like a waste of viewers' time, either.

| Nov 16, 2020

Nicolas Cage's amusing turn as a kooky hermit with an affinity for newspaper hats often feels awkwardly spliced into the film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 16, 2020