≡ 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 […]
