The training sequences and the fight scenes were fairly good none the less, but my biggest gripe has to do with way the plot unfolds.

The hero's mother wanders totally alone in the dark and gets captured not once, by twice in a row by the bad guys in roughly the same place! Dumb, dumb, dumb...but I guess they had to concoct reasons for the hero to train harder and go rescue her again in the final showdown.