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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: 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: 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/ Category III/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Horror/ Exploitation/ Martial Arts/ Suspense
Director: Johnny Lee
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
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: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Bullet Ballet/Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts
Director: Raymond Leung/ Tony Leung Siu-Hung/ Ivan Lai
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The main problem with Angel is its unworthy ambition to be the Asian version of the old Charlie’s Angels TV show (Angel was made before the U.S. theatrical version starring Drew Barrymore).
The movie starts out […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Phillip Ko Fei
Year: 1989
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Considering the immense amount of talent in front of the camera, Final Run has to count as a major disappointment. Final Run came out in 1989, smack in the middle of the Golden Age of Hong Kong […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I have to admit, when I sat down to watch Long Arm Of The Law III, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot. The third entry in the series is fairly obscure, unlike it’s more famous predecessors, which I thought […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts
Director: Yip Shing-Hong
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There’s loads of action in Cheetah On Fire and it’s got plenty of fun stars like Shing Fu-On, Ken Lo, Carrie Ng, Gordon Liu, Donnie Yen, Michael Woods, John Salvitti, and Eddie Ko, but I can’t seem to […]