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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Billy Chan
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Before we get started on Code Of Honor, I’d like to vent a little bit.
The state of Hong Kong film preservation is simply deplorable. For example, the best print Tai Seng could get for Code Of Honor was an old […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Drama
Director: Oxide Pang
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s the problem: with Ab-Normal Beauty, writer/director Oxide Pang creates a thoughtful, lovely examination of the artistic mind, but then he takes a big dump on his own work by tacking on horror/thriller elements which don’t add to the discussion he started. The shame […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
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 […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Jeng Kin-Ping
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Suburb Murder is pretty hard to take seriously. I was sorta willing to overlook the multiple gang rapes (surely one or two would have been enough), the gratuitous visits to massage parlours and so forth, but what really put it over […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Herman Yau
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
This is the second Hong Kong film in a row that I’ve seen in which the cultural context is more interesting that the foreground material or the action, per se.
Little Ball (Ng Man-Tat) is a cop, who likes to set up a gambling stall […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Norman Law
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Walk On Fire is an usually understated cop drama for the Golden Age of Hong Kong (1985-1995). There is some gunplay, but it’s fairly restrained and standard. There are no outrageous stunts. The car stunts are standard. The direction by Norman Law […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama/ Romance/ Suspense
Director: Wong Gam-Din
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
How is it possible that The Most Wanted is so weak? You’ve got a cast that includes Lau Ching Wan, Kent Cheng, Bowie Lam, and Robin Shou. In fact, the cast is uniformly strong. The basic plot is interesting, too. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet / Drama /Category III
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1994
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Coming from a director as strong as Kirk Wong, and a competent action choreographer like Bruce Law, Rock N’ Roll Cop is a major disappointment.
Rock N’ Roll Cop was the third in Kirk Wong’s true crime series, which started with […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Raymond Lee
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Blue Lightning was one of the first Hong Kong flicks I ever saw, and it impressed the heck out of me at the time. I saw it on the big screen instead of on video, which probably made a difference.
Back then, I was […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama /Category III
Director: Taylor Wong
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I had high hopes for Triads The Inside Story. I mean, look at the cast, for one thing: Chow Yun-Fat, Roy Cheung, Michael Chan, Kenneth Tsang, Shing Fui-On, Kelvin Wong — it’s an embarrassment of riches. The director, Taylor Wong, gave us […]