Has anyone else seen "Revenge of the Aspie"?

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Has anyone else seen "Revenge of the Aspie"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_5tXd1SjQg

No doubt it was made with good intentions, but I did not like it. Even though the Aspie wins in the end, and in the tiresome too-much overused terminology of the classic 'old Hollywood' film plot "gets the girl", it still seems to me like a stereotyped caricature of someone with Asperger's Syndrome. What does everybody else think?

I think that I would never have known that this movies exists if you hadn't mentioned it here.

I also think that I'll pass on seeing it.

Having been a student of taekwondo, I learned that many instructors love using real-life examples such a bullying to explain why the students shouldn't antagonize others (like autistic kids). My instructor asked me to "teach" new students who wanted quick instruction so that they could use their new-found knowledge to antagonize someone. While I never harmed anyone (I was 5'6" and 110-lbs.), I had them breathing hard and running in circles. If they returned the following week, we welcomed them into the group. If they didn't, we presumed that they had learned that a single lesson taught them all they needed to know.

So, I suspect strongly that the instructors featured in this mini-film wanted to portray a scenario about which they learned from students in their classes who might have been criticizing an autistic student of classmate. It is what educators call "a teaching moment." A film is probably a better way to teach such students than having the best student in the class discourage them by kicking them around for 10 minutes. Hehe.

I was bullied too until I picked up boxing back when I was 13 years old, fell in love with it, put all my aspie passion into it and every attempt to hurt me ended up with a broken nose ever since. Being quiet and different I looked like an easy target, but once engaged I did not stop until I caused serious damage.

So yeah that video has a lot of universal truth in it. I knew a lot of silent but otherwise extremely dangerous people. BTW this video could not be more amateur

Thanks folks for your responses. I was not referring at all to the martial arts in the film. I was centred entirely on the characterisation of the Aspie and how he was depicted. Pretending for a moment that martial arts was not part of this film, how do you think the Aspie was depicted?

Granted that the film could not be more amateurish or badly made, but both that and the martial arts scene are totally irrelevant. I want to know what people think of the way the Aspie is portrayed. How we are perceived by NTs affects how we are treated so we have to be concerned how autistic people are portrayed in films both amateur and professional. What do you think of "Revenge of the Aspie"'s image of an Aspie?

Lol, that fighting scene was like What the Hell Where did that come from?

I'd like to see it just to see what it's like.