Quiet Earth have this to say (check out the rest of their review) about Mirageman.
If you love comedy based on ridicule, irony, exaggeration and an inexplicable foreign culture, then Mirageman (Chile, 2008) is just the kick to the head you’ve been looking for – with lots left over for your other vulnerable bits. How can I boil this down? OK, Mirageman is a long, hilarious spoof of western superhero culture, interspersed with brief periods of intensely violent mano à mano physical contact.
Written and directed by Ernesto Días Espinoza and starring Chilean stuntman Marko Zaror as Maco the Mirageman, this film also brings a few other goodies to the table – not the least being the unbelievable fact that all the action, including the bone-snapping fights, was shot without computer assistance, without wires, without doubles, and often without a script. That’s right. Apparently they just set up a camera and had Marko and his team of stuntmen have at it… which means when you see someone take a solid kick to the cranium and crumple to the concrete, they’re probably not faking it. Or they may be, as these cats are pro stunt dawgs, and there’s nothing like a little reality hype to butter up the bumpkins who want to believe everything they see. Does it matter, ultimately? Probably not, as Zaror is still an amazing physical talent, whipping off his artistic martial arts moves like some kind of brutal ballet as he vanquishes armies of gangsters and ninjas with lightspeed punches and gravity-defying, intricate spinning kicks. It would be worth it to buy the dvd just to watch the fight scenes in some kind of slo-mo.
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