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Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while there, I thought that Jail In Burning Island aka The Jailbreakers was going to be a superior prison flick, maybe not at the caliber of Prison On Fire, Cool Hand Luke or The Shawshank Redemption, but what […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Chris Lee
Year: 1991
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
What Queen’s High has going for it is one indelible image — a furious Cynthia Khan in a white wedding dress blasting away with a machine gun — and not much else.
The script by Frank Kong and Shum Wai […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Fung Hak-On
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s probably unfair to Edge Of Darkness that I’m only getting around to watching it now. Had I seen it when it came out in 1988, it would have blown me out of the back of the theater.
Back then, stories […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Action
Director: Joe Cheung
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Okay, I’ll admit that Return Engagement isn’t a great film, but it sure is fun.
In Vancouver, Lung (Alan Tang), a triad leader, is embroiled in a mob war with the Italians. In spite of his wife’s entreaties (Carrie Ng, in a cameo), […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It seems like other countries never tire of trying to duplicate American action flicks. Most of the time, it’s an exercise in futility. The things we’re best at, like large scale destruction, special effects laden sequences, and budget busting action set pieces, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Michael Chan
Year: 1990
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
It’s hard for me to know how to rate Gangland Odyssey, based on the DVD I just saw. That’s because it’s based on a VHS full screen transfer with white subtitles burned into the print. Back when these films were current, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Category III/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Coming from director Dennis Law, the director of Bad Blood, Fatal Move has to count as a major disappointment.
The problems begin with the script, also by Dennis Law. When triad kingpin Lung (Sammo Hung) wants to take a step back […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Johnny Wang
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I sat down to watch director Johnny Wang’s Fury, I was hoping for a masterpiece along the line of his next picture, Bloody Brotherhood, but it was not to be. The pity of it is that it easily could […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Cheng Siu-Keung
Year: 1991
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Sea Wolves AKA In The Line Of Duty VII, is an odd movie, a seemingly random mix of competence and incompetence.
One of the first things I noticed is that the dialog track sounded like it was recorded in an […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1992
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
In 1998, Kirk Wong directed The Big Hit, an American action comedy about a hitman with personal and professional troubles.
In that movie, there are plenty of references to American culture, and Kirk Wong directs those scenes broadly but effectively. What a difference […]