Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: David Yates
Year: 2003

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First of all, this isn’t the recent American movie with Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe. It’s the original BBC miniseries. I actually haven’t seen the American version, but often times, the British originals are better. A great example of this is Traffik. The Michael […]

Country: France
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1970

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I’ve got to warn you. I saw Borsalino under less than optimal circumstances, which might cloud my judgement on the merits of the film.
The print I saw was copied from a long ago TV broadcast, so the quality was low to start with and the […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Year: 2003

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Here’s my biggest problem with Kill Bill Volume 1. It doesn’t work as drama because Quentin is too busy geeking out.
Why should that be a problem? After all, Quentin Tarantino has been archly quoting from his favorite movie genres as long as […]

Country: Vietnam
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Truc ‘Charlie’ Nguyen
Year: 2006

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Here’s an aphorism that’s almost always true: “If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage.” I would maintain that it’s pretty much impossible to make a great movie without a great, or at least very good script. But The Rebel […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 2007

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I don’t suppose I should be surprised that Protege is as good as it is. After all, it was directed by Derek Yee, whose other films include People’s Hero, C’est La Vie Mon Cheri, and the great five hanky romance Lost In Time.
Protege features that […]

Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Wayne Kramer
Year: 2009

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Going in, I had a fair amount of curiosity about Crossing Over.
On the one hand, the critics had almost been uniformly hostile. They said Crossing Over was ludicrously melodramatic, like a cut-rate Crash (now there’s an insult), and many of them were incensed by a […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Exploitation
Director: Gwai Chi-Hung
Year: 1974

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I’m not a big fan of the Shaw Brothers house style, so I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing Bamboo House of Dolls. I figured, the Chinese are fairly modest now (Category III flicks are fairly tame in terms of sexual content), so back in […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: James Foley
Year: 1999

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I don’t know if it’s still true, but Chow Yun-Fat used to be a huge star in Asia. In some quarters, he is greatly admired in Hollywood. And back when The Corruptor was released, everyone was trying to figure out, how can we […]

Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Clint Eastwood
Year: 2008

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In Changeling, director Clint Eastwood has a helluva (true) story to tell. Too bad certain key elements are just a tad off.
Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a single mother, comes back from work one day to find her son Walter (Gattlin Griffith) missing. After five […]

Country: Japan
Genre: Action/Horror
Director: Kinji Fukasaku/ Kenta Fukasaku
Year: 2003
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There is no way Battle Royale 2: Requiem could possibly have the same impact as Battle Royale. The cat is already out of the bag. The shock and dismay at witnessing children forced to kill other children for the first time cannot be duplicated, […]