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It’s hard to imagine someone who was just into his 30s, looked as fit as you can be, probably kept to a clean diet and exercised a lot. But Andrew Martin just so happened to clock out of life at the age of 33.

Throughout most of his adult life Martin trained as a wrestler, became involved with WWE and TNA wrestling. He was billed as the character Test at 6 foot 6 tall and weighing in at 280lbs. A giant of men he brought strength and power to a business which had a lot of competition equal to what was needed.

As with a lot of other wrestlers they tend to lead their real life’s into their characters life. This is very hard for those fans that like to know the real person. Martin was one of these people, always viewed as Test the wrestler, always seemed to be angry and very often looked like he was powered up on something. At one point in February of 2007 he was terminated from his contract in the WWE for breach of the Wellness Program. (This was a program where the company would test it’s wrestlers for any illegal substances.)

This could be a factor into his death, but one can’t be too sure of all the facts. For instances in July 2004 Martin had spinal fusion surgery, there could have been some long term problems undetected that could of also resulted in his death.

But to say he didn’t serve his life well would be to kick oneself in the teeth. Martin met Bret Hart in a restaurant and had the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest wrestling legends of the time. He became a household name in the wrestling business. Acted out his character while winning a number of belts in the process. It is unknown what he has done since his retirement from wrestling in March 2008, unfortunately on the 13 March 2009 he passed away.

Very often trailers and reviews say one thing and when you see the film you might disagree with what was said. I was going into the theatre with high expectations and the opening scene wasn’t so bad.

The choreographed fight scene was nicely played out but there didn’t seem to be much rotation in the camera which left the fight feeling rather flat. After that you have a back and forth motion through time as the director decides to give his audience one hell of a headache.

First you seem to have a narrator then he disappears and comes back again. The crew slowly begin to form and the backgrounds takes for ever to develop. By the time another fight scene turns up I was wanting to leave the cinema! Then the sex scenes get in the way, what was the point of that anyway? I was confused by what I would call “distorted directing”. Every actor and actress was… boring, the blue guy was the most boring and Carla Gugino just looked like a young (Xena) “Lucy Lawless”.

There was no aliens, little fighting, an ending I didn’t like and after it all that, I was left wanting to go to bed! I was that bored.

1 out of 5.