≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I saw the title “The Last Blood,” I immediately thought of the apocryphal tale concerning movie producer Roger Corman that he used to decide on the title and the movie poster of a film before he came up with a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Romance
Director: Jamie Luk
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Killer’s Love is one of those movies that could only be made in Hong Kong during the Golden Age. It’s a combination hired killer thriller/ fish out of water comedy/ romance.
Cheung Wai-Lun (Simon Yam) is a ruthless killer for hire. His […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Chang Cheh
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Is that title supposed to be some sort of irony? If only.
The Heroic Ones of the title are thirteen generals who are brothers, in some cases by blood, in other cases by adoption. Whichever the case, they’re all arrogant, smug and boorish, although […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Drama
Director: Ringo Lam
Year: 1997
Rating:
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Full Alert succeeds from beginning to end as a realistic police procedural. The plotting is tight and the characterizations are believable. Lau Ching Wan is his usual reliable self as hardnosed and hot tempered Inspector Baau Wai Hung. Francis Ng dials down […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Danny Go
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Considering that The Crucifixion features multiple crucifixions and the character acting of the great William Ho and Shing Fui-On, it is unforgivably dull. I was reduced to admiring co-lead Hilary Tsui’s shapely ass throughout most of the running time, just to keep from […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Chinese Ghost Story II may lack the sublime moments of the first film (Wu Ma’s impromptu song and dance, Leslie Cheung hiding in the bathtub with Joey Wang), but it doesn’t have a lousy first act either.
A […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Cash Chin
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It is tempting to dismiss the events of 1941 Hong Kong on Fire as grotesque exaggeration. The film is a bloodbath, with Japanese slaughtering folks in hospitals, skewering babies, and raping every woman in sight. But I’m afraid that the Japanese […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Ng See-Yuen
Year: 1985
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For a while there, I thought that The Unwritten Law would be an exception to the rule that pure comedies or dramas from Hong Kong, without the added entertainment value of dizzying action choreography and stunts, lack the juice to fully succeed as entertainment.
Lau Chi Pang […]
≡ Category: Category III, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Julie Lee/ Tun-Fei Mou
Year: 1995
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sadly, Trilogy Of Lust adds up to little more than a rank porno. This is a pity because at the center of this waste of celluloid is a truly transgressive adult film.
Ah Chi (Julie Lee) is an orphan of the Cultural […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Regular readers of this site will know that I don’t generally think that Hong Kong comedy and drama is strong enough to stand on it’s own. Usually, it needs liberal doses of kung fu inspired action and stunts to sustain interest.
To a large extent, this […]
