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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: James Glickenhaus
Year: 1985
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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: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1987
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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/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Jingle Ma
Year: 2009
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Making Mulan work should have been a no-brainer. You have a game star with Vicky Zhao (although she couldn’t possibly be mistaken for a man, no matter what she was wearing), an ace action director in Stephen Tung Wai, and what seems like […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Frankie Chan
Year: 1989
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In Burning Ambition AKA Megaforce, Frankie Chan the director gets in the way of Frankie Chan the writer.
At first glance, Burning Ambition might seem like just another triad story about warring factions within a crime family. But Burning Ambition has something extra.
O […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Category III/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Horror/ Exploitation/ Martial Arts/ Suspense
Director: Johnny Lee
Year: 1993
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In A Day Without Policemen, screenwriters Laai Gwong-Fai, Goo Bing-Git, Desmond Wu, and Johnny Lee come up with many intriguing ideas. They pit the natural instinct for self-preservation against the desire to protect women and family. […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Renny Harlin
Year: 2009
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12 Rounds is without a doubt the best WWE movie I’ve ever seen, which is damning with faint praise. It was surely designed as a dumdum action movie for the non-discriminating.
As you would expect from a WWE movie, much of the action is second hand, taken […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Stephen Shin
Year: 1992
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After the success of Black Cat, director/producer Stephen Shin decided to spend a lot more money on the sequel. Filmed on three continents, with lots of pyrotechnics, it almost seems like this was Stephen Shin attempt at an action picture for international consumption, except that he […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2008
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I knew going in that Gomorra wasn’t going to be a laugh riot, but as a critic, I felt obliged to see this universally lauded film about the Camorra crime family. And guess what? It’s pretty much as good as the critics say.
Gomorra is filmed in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1966
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Torn Curtain shows a lamentable lack of judgement from the normally reliable Alfred Hitchcock.
Would you believe Paul Newman as a nuclear physicist? Me either. I love Paul Newman, but he’s working class all the way, not an intellectual. Why did Hitchcock cast him?
Well, it […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Mabrouk El Mechri
Year: 2008
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Writer/director Mabrouk El Mechri had a genius idea — make a Jean Claude Van Damme movie in which the main character is a version of the actor himself. In El Mechri’s conception, Van Damme is all but washed up as an action star […]