Years ago, Blaine Richtefield (Lorenzo Lamas) killed Diego Padilla's (Ryan Padilla in the present, Andres F. Croci-Valdes in the past) father and mother over their farm, which was the last place he needed to own all of the land in a Texas town. He's saved by Richtefield's driver Silas and sent to China to be raised by Silas' father Bingwen Hsing (Craig Ng) alongside that man's daughter Xin Yi (Alyssa Leanne So in the present, Brylee Hsu in the past). The older man trains the boy in martial arts and tells him that Silas saved him because he reminds him of the daughter, Catherine, that he could not save.
Directed by Jose Montesinos (Five Star Murder), who co-wrote the script with Jacob David Smith, Prepare to Die has Diego sailing back to America to confront Richtefield and get revenge. He has to start fighting from the minute he's on the boat as two men to rob him, He nearly kills one of them when one throws his mother's necklace overboard.
Meanwhile, Richtefield and his henchman Ryan Fruitwood (Quentin "Rampage" Jackson) have an entire storage locker full of women under their control, just to show you what horrible people they are. He also has the law on his side in the form of the sheriff (Michael Madsen).
Diego comes to town and goes to a bar where he plays pool against William Freeman (Rylan Williams) which turns into a fight against two of Richtefield's henchmen. He gets outside and even more are waiting, which causes Diego to come outside and watch. When he learns that Richtefield is involved, he saves Freeman. He loses his cool and starts choking the life out of one of them before the cops arrive. They also meet up with Bianca (Paula Rae-Taylor), who tries to steal Freeman's truck because it has Richtefield's name on it. That's when it comes out that he used to be his boss. She's been trying to find her sister, who is one of the girls kidnapped by Richtefield.
They also run into James Swiftwater (Andrew Pinon), whose land they are staying on. He makes sure that no one sneaks around Richtefield's land. Nobody likes working for the guy but they are all forced to. Swiftwater claims that Freeman brought drugs into his community and cost his brother his life. Freeman is trying to make amends, as he lost his sister too. Everyone has made mistakes working for one bad person in the middle of it all.
Of course, it all comes down to Richtefield fighting one on one with Diego, as well as everyone getting the revenge they want. Not everyone makes it out alive which makes it weird when everyone goes and eat afterward, as if someone major in the cast didn't just die and they didn't just kill so many people. I mean, I've never had to get bloody revenge before, so perhaps it does make you hungry.
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