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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: 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/ 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/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I was initially less than enthusiastic about checking out Fatal Contact because it’s yet another movie about underground fighting, obviously designed to showcase star Jacky Wu Jing’s martial arts abilities. That seemed to me a failure of imagination on the part […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Jingle Ma
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
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
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
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
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/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I was really jazzed when I sat down to watch Blade Of Fury. It came out in 1993, during Hong Kong’s golden age, was directed and choreographed by Sammo Hung, and stars the great Ti Lung. I figured it couldn’t miss.
I was a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have a love/hate relationship with Wong Jing, leaning heavily towards the hate side of the equation. Wong Jing loves toilet humor, he pretty much has contempt for the screenwriting verities, and his taste is firmly in the gutter. To give […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Peter Chan/ Raymond Yip
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When The Warlords first starts out, you’re primed for a heroic, gutsy, edgy adventure flick. The battles, which take place in the Qing Dynasty, are brutal, graphic and expertly choreographed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung. The male camaraderie of the title […]