≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Suspense
Director: Eric Tsang
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I first saw Fatal Vacation many years ago, and while I enjoyed it, seeing again has given me a new appreciation and respect for the accomplishment of star/director Eric Tsang and screenwriter Nam Yin (Prison on Fire, School on Fire, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Romance/ Martial Arts
Director: Wilson Tong
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In Hong Kong gambling movies, there generally isn’t a whole lot of actual gambling going on. Really, it’s a competition over who can most cleverly cheat. Adding to the fun, in the best gambling movies, there’s also stunts, gunplay and […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Ray Leung
Year: 1996
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Scarred Memory starts off with a potentially involving premise.
Dr. Ivy Yip (the lovely Veronica Yip) is struggling with PTSD. She was raped two months previously, but has not received any kind of professional counseling. Apparently, the stigma in Hong Kong for rape victims […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Suspense
Director: Edward Tang
Year: 1995
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the most part, Red Zone is an exception to the usual rule of Hong Kong action films that appear to be written on the fly, and produced and directed the same way. The story and characters in Red Zone are well […]
≡ Category: Category III, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Suspense
Director: Cha Chuen-Yee
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Rapist, a retelling of the story of the Tuen Mun Rapist who terrorized Hong Kong over a period of about eight months in 1992, is well acted, beautifully shot, and reasonably well scored. And yet it is ultimately pointless.
The first two thirds […]
≡ Category: Category III, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation/ Suspense
Director: Tony Leung Hung-Wah
Year: 1999
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
With a title like A Lamb In Despair, you would expect it to be an exploitation ripoff of Silence Of The Lambs, but that isn’t it at all.
A Lamb In Despair is actually a fairly thoughtful psychological thriller, with very little […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Leung Po-Chi
Year: 1988
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Fatal Love is almost good enough to recommend, but not quite.
It has lots of virtues: the charisma of Leslie Cheung, Cherie Chung, Melvin Wong, and Phillip Kwok; the tough action choreography of Phillip Kwok; the poetic cinematography of Horace Wong, Paul Chan, Poon Hang-Sang, […]
≡ Category: Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Suspense
Director: Yonfan
Year: 1987
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
There’s only so much charismatic and skilled actors can do to save a movie. You have to provide them with an interesting plot and characters. No matter how good, actors cannot create a movie out of thin air.
That’s what the filmmakers of Double Fixation seem […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Martial Arts
Director: Wong Jing/ Venus Keung
Year: 2010
Rating:
DON’T BOTHER
In all of Black Ransom, there might be half a dozen clever or original moments. All of the other elements in the script by writer/director/producer Wong Jing are recycled. That’s just deadly in a cop thriller.
A person or persons unknown have […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense
Director: Phillip Chan
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I have a lot of respect for Philip Chan. He wrote Long Arm Of The Law II and Edge Of Darkness, two gritty and believable police movies. He’s a dependable actor.
That’s why it is such a surprise to me that he is the writer/director of […]
