“As Good As Dead” (** out of four) was a muffled action thriller about a former cop turned MMA fighting instructor (Michael Jai White) who trains a young boy (Michael Copon) to fight but this subsequently leads to an imprisoned crime kingpin (Tom Berenger) finding out his whereabouts and enacting revenge and targeting him for death. Fairly efficient with enough hand-to-hand combat and gunfights for fans but never rises above the routine. Berenger is wasted in a role that seems to be an elderly version of the 3 wise men he played in “Training Day”.