≡ Category: Action, Korea, Romance, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Romance
Director: Lee Sang-yong
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
4th Period Mystery is really a movie for kids, which isn’t meant to knock it. It declines to examine the situation it presents in a thoroughly realistic manner. Instead, it presents a world taken from a kid’s eye view.
Notice that I don’t say that […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Mainstream, Martial Arts, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream/ Martial Arts
Director: Richard Donner
Year: 1998
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At first, it seems like Lethal Weapon 4 is going to be an unmitigated disaster.
In the opening sequence, some nut is running around Hollywood Boulevard with a flame thrower and an automatic rifle, rocking out on AC/DC or something. (You think I’m […]
≡ Category: Comedy, France, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Recently, my wife and I watched the Francis Veber flick Shut Up! AKA Ruby and Quentin, starring Jean Reno and Gérard Depardieu. She enjoyed it quite a bit, so being ever vigilant about finding movies my wife and I can watch together, I decided to track […]
≡ Category: Action, Category III, Comedy, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance/ Exploitation/ Category III
Director: Andrew Lau
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Let’s get one thing straight at the outset: there is nothing remotely erotic about Raped By An Angel, despite the attractive actresses and actors involved. If the rape scenes were intended to be hot, that’s pretty revealing of the […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, France, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The situation is pure boilerplate. Gangster Ruby (Jean Reno) is having an affair with the girlfriend of his boss, Vogel (Jean-Pierre Malo). He’s also stealing from him. When Vogel finds out, he promptly caps the girl. Ruby wants revenge and Vogel still wants his money […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Swordplay/ Action / Drama
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto
Year: 1969
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In some ways, it’s difficult to construe Blood End as an unsung classic of Japanese martial arts cinema. The swordplay, while good, is not at the level of the Lone Wolf and Cub flicks, nor is the gore quotient. The storytelling is also […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Horror, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Ivan Lai
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Blue Jean Monster is a tough film to rate. It’s got a boffo opening, a crazily creative climax involving axes, chainsaws, explosives, live birth, trucks used as weapons, Molotov cocktails, and killer industrial fans, and the only starring performance by the great […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Chan/ Rico Chung
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
After Hong Kong audiences burned out on heroic bloodshed and a good portion of Hong Kong’s talent defected to Hollywood, the Hong Kong film industry reacted by rejecting the rampant emotionalism of the Golden Age (1985-1995). Largely gone were the lurid colors, story […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Johnny Wang
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I sat down to watch director Johnny Wang’s Fury, I was hoping for a masterpiece along the line of his next picture, Bloody Brotherhood, but it was not to be. The pity of it is that it easily could […]
≡ Category: Action, Girls with Guns, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Tommy Wong/ Chan Lau
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Not long ago, I suffered through the lame fight choreography of Sea Wolves AKA In The Line of Duty VII. The problem was that all the punches and kicks were pulled. There was no way that you […]