The fights are furious enough, but the script for the Vietnamese martial arts thriller “The Foggy Mountain” (Dinh Mu Suong) is as weary a collection of cliches, trite tropes and recycled Eastern “wisdom” as one could imagine.

And having seen many a martial arts movie, one can imagine much.

A fighter — played by star and fight choreographer Peter Pham — is forced to face “one last fight.” His blind wife (Truc May) objects. But gambling gangster Ba Rau (Kim Long Thach) insists. When things don’t go the gangster’s way, fighter Phi must have his revenge. Not the he isn’t warned.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” doesn’t move him, even in Vietnamese (with English subtitles), because “The punch has no eye.”

Phi must travel into the jungle, to The Foggy Mountain hideout. He will bring school-teacher and trained fighter Bang Tam (Le Thao), just to be sure.

Because you just know that human trafficking is involved, and legions of villains must be faced (Truong Dinh Hoang and Simon Kook play the most formidable ones), victims will be chased and heroes and villains will die and aphorisms must be intoned.

“Killing is addiction. No addiction is good.”

Neither is this movie, alas. The acting is stiff, almost every scene without a chase or a fight is dull and static.

“Mountain” is a thriller that’s all punched-up and no place to go but down the mountain, downhill to cliche town.

Rating: unrated, violence

Cast: Peter Pham, Kim Long Thach, Le Thao, Truc May, Truong Dinh Hoang and Simon Kook

Credits: Directed by Phan Anh and Ken Dinh, scripted by Phan Ahn, Phan Ngoc and Ken Dinh. A Hi-Yah!/Well Go USA release.

Running time: 1:27