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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama
Director: John Woo
Year: 1989
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Just Heroes plays like a dress rehearsal for John Woo’s bullet ballet melodramas like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. The elegant camera movements, slow motion, balletic gun-fu, heroic bloodshed, and male bonding are certainly all in evidence. Too bad […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Fantasy/ Girls With Guns/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chi Li Tang
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Bury Me High is nothing if not ambitious. What else do you call an adventure story about Feng Shui that incorporates a cast of thousands, military ordinance, voluminous explosions, kickass martial arts, and nutty stunts?
The plot […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: James Glickenhaus
Year: 1985
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For those who don’t know, there are two versions of The Protector. The Protector started out as a project written and directed by James Glickenhaus, the American B-movie auteur behind The Exterminator.
The original movie is a mess. The pacing is sluggish, the story […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Martial Arts/ Action
Director: Lau Kar-Wing
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
What can I say about Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon? Unless you added in a plethora of crazy Hong Kong style stuntwork, it’s about as good as it could be, given the premise and style of the piece.
Baldy Mak (Karl Maka) and […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Science Fiction/ Action
Director: Christopher Nolan
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Give credit to writer/director Christopher Nolan for one thing: he’s got balls like an elephant. Inception is the most demanding piece of speculative fiction written for the screen in the history of movies.
Now, what do I mean by that? After all, we’ve already […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Underground Express AKA Long Arm of the Law IV isn’t quite as great as it’s predecessors, but you shouldn’t hold that against it.
One advantage the film has is a rich premise. In the aftermath of the Tienanmen Square massacre, Chinese pro-democracy […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Getaway is something a little different from Sam Peckinpah. There’s action in it, but it’s not really an action movie. It’s mostly about the stresses put on the relationship between Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) and Carol McCoy (Ali MacGraw).
The opening […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1987
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In Eastern Condors, director Sammo Hung seems to have set out to make an American style war picture, along the lines of The Dirty Dozen. It’s not such a good fit for his talents.
The early sequences, which focus on the convicts who […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama
Director: David Lam
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
All history lessons should be as fun as Powerful Four. It seems that, during the 50s and 60s, the Hong Kong Police Department was totally corrupt. Not only did cops take bribes to look the other way, they actively participated in […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Godfrey Ho
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Angel The Kickboxer is stultifyingly boring, to the point of being unwatchable. Reader, I confess that 40 minutes into this snooze fest, I skimmed through the rest of the DVD, only pausing for the fight sequences.
Don’t blaim the actors. Don’t even blaim the […]