≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Science Fiction, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Science Fiction
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Year: 1995
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s tempting to proclaim Strange Days a masterpiece and be done with it. There’s the highly original, often brilliant script by James Cameron and professional movie critic Jay Cocks, filmed with energy and commitment by Kathryn Bigelow. There’s the inspired pairing of […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews By Country, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Cheng Siu-Keung
Year: 1991
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Sea Wolves AKA In The Line Of Duty VII, is an odd movie, a seemingly random mix of competence and incompetence.
One of the first things I noticed is that the dialog track sounded like it was recorded in an […]
≡ Category: Hong Kong, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance
Director: Calvin Poon
Year: 1986
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I can stand movies that are full of sh&#, as long as they’re entertaining — John Woo movies like A Better Tomorrow come to mind — but Kiss Me Goodbye is not only phony, it’s bland, formulaic, and boring as hell.
Sam (Anthony Wong — no, […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1985
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
My Lucky Stars is basically an action sandwich stuffed with comedy. When you’re talking about Hong Kong movies, that’s almost impossible to pull off because the comedy is usually so lame. For Hong Kong comedy to work, you need to have it […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Various
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering how utterly routine the 8th season of 24 is, it still manages to be fairly entertaining. I put that down to residual professionalism.
Yes, there’s a WB network aspect to the performances by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Katee Sackhoff, but we’ve still got expert turns […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Stephen Tung Wai
Year: 1998
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How’s this for an opening? A Japanese industrialist is installed in a penthouse of a building, protected by the latest in security electronics and a small army of bodyguards. The “Killing Angel,” an unstoppable assassin, breaks in and kills everyone, including […]
≡ Category: Category III, Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Drama
Director: Sherman Wong
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I wish I could say that Queen of the Underworld was a great movie, but really it’s a bit of a lost opportunity.
It’s the story of how Helena (Amy Yip) goes from being a waitress to the most powerful madam in Hong Kong. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1990
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Mortuary Blues starts out with a fine premise. Long ago, the members of a village killed everyone on an official boat and stole the imperial treasure. Ever since then, the village elders have held religious rituals to keep karma at bay. They also kill […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Lee Tim-Sing
Year: 1987
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sometimes when we look back at previous eras, there’s a tendency to remember only the good things and gloss over the bad. For example, the 2nd Golden Age of Hollywood produced gems such as Midnight Cowboy, The Godfather, Cool Hand Luke, and Taxi Driver. […]
≡ Category: Drama, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Drama
Director: Wen-Tang Cheng
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Detective Guo (Chen-Nan Tsai), an aging, taciturn cop, takes a special interest in a routine drug overdose case. He’s the only one who seems interested. As Guo digs deeper, official pressure is brought to bear to make him back off.
Sounds like any a number of American […]