≡ Category: Action, China, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Fantasy
Director: Yu Chik-Lim
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Combat At Heaven Gate is an ultra low budget Mainland Chinese re-imagining of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, with an ancient medical textbook substituting for the Ark Of The Covenant.
How low budget? The picture takes place in the 1940s, but the only vehicles […]
≡ Category: Action, China, Comedy, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Xinyan Zhang
Year: 1984
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you’re going to watch Shaolin Temple 2, it helps to start with the right expectations.
Don’t expect a complex story or subtle acting. Do expect gorgeous scenery, an innocent atmosphere, and tons of super high quality martial arts of the Wudang swordplay […]
≡ Category: Action, China, Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Ghost/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Fantasy
Director: Wilson Yip
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I would have expected better from Wilson Yip, who directed the awesome Ip Man. From the evidence of A Chinese Ghost Story, he hasn’t the slightest clue about what his strengths and weaknesses are as a filmmaker.
One of the things […]
≡ Category: Action, China, Drama, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Recommended, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Action/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
An Empress And The Warriors is a modestly entertaining film, but it’s good enough that I wish that it had been even better.
Kelly Chen stars as Princess Yen Feier, of the Yan clan. In the beginning of the film, her father is injured […]
