≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Year: 1967
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the title character’s quest to become acknowledged as the best swordsman in Japan.
The movie has beautiful vistas, fluid camerawork, and decent martial arts choreography, but that pretty much exhausts my praise.
The huge problem at the center is […]
≡ Category: Drama, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Oren Moverman
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a needy, selfish, rageaholic, sociopathic, self-righteous prick. That would be okay, but he isn’t very interesting either. That’s a problem because Rampart isn’t an action film with a riveting story, like Training Day. It’s a character study.
Woody Harrelson plays […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Joe Hau
Year: 1995
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Black Dream is an excruciatingly dull genre exercise, the very type of half-assed triad drama that sank the Hong Kong film business back in the 90s.
Black Dream features three of the most boring actors I’ve ever seen: Michael Tong, Raymond Tso, and Ng Shui-Ting. […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts
Director: Various
Year: 2012
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
My wife prefers television to movies, so I keep a lookout for anything that she might enjoy that won’t drive me completely nuts. Generally, she likes action, comedy, and anything that won’t make her think too hard or shake her emotional equilibrium. […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Genre: Drama/ Martial Arts/ Art
Director: Daniel Lee
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
What Price Survival is an unusual martial arts film in a lot of ways. Most martial arts films out of Hong Kong during the late 80s and early 90s were run and gun, done on a shoestring, at a breathless pace.
In contrast, What Price […]
≡ 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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Joe Carnahan
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Grey is a wilderness adventure about a bunch of oil workers dodging wolves and otherwise trying to survive after they are stranded by a plane crash.
The filmmakers had six elements to work with: the plane crash; wolf attacks; overcoming obstacles such as […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The best thing about Hindsight, a truly wretched film, is the relationship between Doo-hyeon (Kang-ho Song), a middle-aged former gangster and Se-bin (Shin Se-Kyung), a young lady who owes money to the loan sharks.
Doo-hyeon used to be second in command of the Hangang Group, but […]
≡ 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 […]
