≡ Category: Ghost, Hong Kong, Horror, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Ghost
Director: Tom Lau
Year: 1984
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I have to say, with a title like “The Rape After,” I was expecting a different type of movie. You know, a serial rapist is burning through the female population of Hong Kong, the incompetent cops keep missing him, and it falls to […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Korea, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Cheol-hie Park
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I make it a rule not to criticize a movie because it isn’t the movie I wanted the filmmakers to make, but I’ll make an exception for No Mercy For The Rude, and I’ll tell you why.
It’s a perfect title. The movie almost writes […]
≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Thailand | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Thailand
Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Art
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Year: 1999
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
From the very first frames of Invisible Waves, director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang exhibits an extraordinarily strong authorial presence. The compositions are architectural in their discipline. The color palette is gray and green, with the occasional splash of color, usually a dull red. Ratanaruang persists in […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1969
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I Ragazzi Del Massacro AKA Naked Violence certainly starts out with a bang, no pun intended. Before the credits are even over, a classroom full of teenagers have raped and killed their teacher.
At first, I thought writer/director Fernando Di Leo was making a hamhanded comment […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Chang Cheh
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Is that title supposed to be some sort of irony? If only.
The Heroic Ones of the title are thirteen generals who are brothers, in some cases by blood, in other cases by adoption. Whichever the case, they’re all arrogant, smug and boorish, although […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Ki-hyeong Park
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Gangster High isn’t badly directed. I especially like how director Ki-hyeong Park shot the soccer scenes in the beginning of the film. They flow nicely and have a nicely elegiac feel to them. The fight scenes are fine, in that standard Korean flailing kind of […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Alex Turner
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You can’t accuse Dead Birds of being unoriginal.
How many horror movies about Confederate bank robbers holed up in a haunted antebellum mansion can you recall?
It’s a good premise. There’s the potential for action (pursuing lawmen, internecine squabbles over the gold) and the […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Danny Go
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Considering that The Crucifixion features multiple crucifixions and the character acting of the great William Ho and Shing Fui-On, it is unforgivably dull. I was reduced to admiring co-lead Hilary Tsui’s shapely ass throughout most of the running time, just to keep from […]
≡ Category: Category III, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Julie Lee/ Tun-Fei Mou
Year: 1995
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sadly, Trilogy Of Lust adds up to little more than a rank porno. This is a pity because at the center of this waste of celluloid is a truly transgressive adult film.
Ah Chi (Julie Lee) is an orphan of the Cultural […]
≡ 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 […]
