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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Wei Han-Tao/ Stephen Shin
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
This mainland/Hong Kong coproduction should have been a slam dunk. The underlying story is a doozy, the epic tale of the David and Goliath battle between the upstart Chu against the Qin Dynasty, followed by the internecine infighting between the Chu and […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Phillip Ko Fei
Year: 1992
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I really wanted to give Fatal Chase the benefit of a doubt. The print I saw looked like it was mastered from a fifth generation video copy, so I couldn’t tell you if the cinematography was any good. Also, since the subtitles […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The opening images of Chatter Street Killer are of modern skyscrapers in Hong Kong: gleaming, cold, impersonal. Then the camera pans down. At street level, the working class is still living in old Hong Kong neighborhoods that feel more like small towns. Everyone knows […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Yuen Biao
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Kid From Tibet starts off with several advantages. First, there aren’t many movies made in which one of the main protagonists is a Tibetan monk. That’s pretty novel to start with. And director/star Yuen Biao managed to get amazing access to Lhasa, the […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Girls With Guns/ Comedy/ Satire/ Action
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1988
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The main subject of Operation Pink Squad is the absolute terror than Hong Kong men had in the 80s of career women. It was the humiliation of women taking their jobs, the diminution of their sense of manhood, an assault on […]
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Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while there, I thought that Jail In Burning Island aka The Jailbreakers was going to be a superior prison flick, maybe not at the caliber of Prison On Fire, Cool Hand Luke or The Shawshank Redemption, but what […]
≡ Category: Action, Fantasy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Johnnie To
Year: 1993
Rating:
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Even by the wacky standards of Hong Kong cinema of the 90s, the tone of The Heroic Trio is bizarre.
It takes place in a Hong Kong of the imagination. Some of the city does indeed look like the real thing, but […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a movie which is almost universally lauded as a deathless classic of Hong Kong’s Golden Age, A Chinese Ghost Story has a pretty lame first act.
The problem isn’t so much the story.
Scholar Ling Choi San […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 1991
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s odd that Zodiac Killers amounts to so little when there is so much good work here.
Let’s start with the fresh subject matter. Zodiac Killers is about folks from the Chinese diaspora (Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) who come to Japan to study […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Wong Wai-Yip
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When it comes right down to it, The Way Of The Lady Boxers aka Madam The Great is a pretty lousy movie. The plotting is lame, many of the actors are pure amateur hour, and the drama is embarrassing. What […]