Directors Gabriel Carrer & Reese Eveneshen choose to be more direct with their tidy 81-minutes and gives us a violence-laden exploitation thriller that gets the job done.

We live in a society where the most nefarious and unscrupulous have motives to take something and twist it into their visage and create their very own totem, symbol, or rallying cry.

'The Paper Tigers' the feature debut from Bao Tran, is BUSTING with heart, humor, nostalgia and of course some pretty cool fighting that blurs the lines between 'damn, that was cool,' and 'geesh, that really looks like it hurt.'