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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Country: China
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Sun Sha
Year: 1983
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Let’s face it. The Undaunted Wudang is not a very good movie.
The editing is clumsy and the camera moves uncoordinated. Director Sun Sha has only the faintest grasp of narrative filmmaking. It’s a good thing that the plot of his movie is simplicity itself.
The evil […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Zhang Siu-Wai
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Deadend of Besiegers is an unexpected delight.
Disgraced Japanese martial artist Wuwechimatao (a charismatic Yu Rong-Guang) travels to China to learn Dog-Fist style, but unfortunately, he has mistakenly boarded a pirate ship instead of a merchant vessel. When the pirates attack a coastal […]
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Country: China
Genre: Martial Arts/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Zhang Yi-Mou
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while, it looks like House Of Flying Daggers is going to be a near perfect martial arts drama, with a scintillating blend of gorgeous costumes, sets and cinematography, gripping political intrigue and romantic entanglements, flawless martial arts choreography, and even excellent […]
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Country: China
Genre: Drama/Martial Arts
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The Legend of the Black Scorpion is a very odd movie. It’s a combination of leisurely and elaborately art directed set pieces, intricate and coded court intrigues, and surprisingly bloody kung fu battles of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon variety, courtesy of master martial arts choreographer […]
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Country: China
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I am not generally a big fan of the Shaw Brothers martials arts pictures, but I felt it was my duty to watch 8 Diagram Pole Fighter because it is considered an absolute classic of the genre.
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter has the heavily stylized, artificial […]
