≡ Category: Action, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Cheung Yan-Git
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
With a title like Wonderful Killer, you would expect that the killer in question would either be really innovative or especially competent. Alas, throughout most of the movie, there is no indication that is the case. Only in the third act does the […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls With Guns, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Ma Siu-Wai
Year: 1989
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Another pathetic excuse for an action movie from Taiwan.
Whoever wrote the screenplay has no clue about dialog or plot development. With such a crappy script, even a sly old fox like Ku Feng is wasted. And most of […]
≡ Category: Action, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Recommended, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Fantasy
Director: Wong Hong
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In order for a wuxia flick to succeed at all, it’s almost axiomatic that the martial arts have to be good. It’s almost impossible for one of these flicks to make the grade based solely on acting, production values, and story. That’s because […]
≡ Category: Action, Not Worth Your Time, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Tsang Jau-Shyun
Year: 1988
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I’ve come to the conclusion that violence, unless it is shot imaginatively and with great skill, or involves characters worth caring about, is no less boring than hard core pornography consisting of nothing more than closeup penetration shots.
That’s mostly the case with Killers Must Die.
After […]
≡ Category: Action, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Seven Foxes is a mess, although it didn’t have to be.
It concerns three couples and their romantic travails. In the first story strand, Dong Tin wants to be a dancer (insert a few sequences derivative of Flashdance) and leaves […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Recommended, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There’s no doubt about it. Island of Fire is a complete mess, a Frankenstein monster stitched together from mismatching parts: a dollop of Le Femme Nikita here, a truckload of Cool Hand Luke there, a little Bad Boys here, even a smidgen of […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Taiwan, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1990
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
It’s New Years Eve, 1950 in China and the Communists have the Nationalists on the run. Thanks to a truce, they have a rare moment of peace. For this American, it was astonishing that families, including women and children, were bivouacked with the soldiers. That’s probably […]
≡ Category: Drama, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Recommended, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Drama
Director: Wen-Tang Cheng
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Detective Guo (Chen-Nan Tsai), an aging, taciturn cop, takes a special interest in a routine drug overdose case. He’s the only one who seems interested. As Guo digs deeper, official pressure is brought to bear to make him back off.
Sounds like any a number of American […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Recommended, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If it weren’t for the hard hitting martial arts and crazy stunts, I wouldn’t have believed that A Book Of Heroes came out in the late eighties. It feels more like the early 80s. Achingly saccharine pop hits like “Girls Just Wanna Have […]
