Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Hong Kong is the birthplace of the dreaded nonsense comedy, the former British colony’s answer to Jerry Lewis. In other words, watching these so-called comedies is about as amusing as witnessing a partial abortion to most non-Chinese people. (Stephen Chow […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Herman Yau
Year: 1992

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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 […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Norman Law
Year: 1988

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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 […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama/ Romance/ Suspense
Director: Wong Gam-Din
Year: 1994

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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. […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet / Romance
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Gunmen is a classic Golden Age of Hong Kong flick in the hard hitting 80s style.
In the closing days of a civil war in China, Ding Chun-Bei (Tony Leung), and his three compatriots, Chang (Waise Lee), Lau Fook-Kwong (Mark Cheng), and […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet / Romance
Director: Veronica Chan
Year: 1994

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Taste Of Killing And Romance is one of those ridiculous Hong Kong movies about “nice” assassins. In the opening sequence, we witness Ko Shao (Andy Lau) coldbloodedly kill a car full of people, blowing up the car for good measure, […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Romance /Action
Director: Norman Law Man
Year: 1986

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Ah, the wonderfully wacky world of Hong Kong movies! I can’t claim that A Hearty Response is all that good, but it certainly is entertaining.
The subject matter is that Hong Kong 80s perennial, illegal immigration from Mainland China, but in A […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Ringo Lam
Year: 1989

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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The first time I saw Wild Search, I was halfway through the movie before I realized that it was a loose remake of Witness, the terrific Harrison Ford fish-out-of-water cop tale. Believe it or not, Wild Search is every bit as rich a […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Bullet Ballet/ Fantasy/ Romance
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1994

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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Try to imagine this: a Chow Yun-Fat film with action choreography by the great Phillip Kwok and co-starring the gorgeous Ng Sin-Lin and Gordon Liu that is completely, utterly worthless and unwatchable. Doesn’t seem possible, does it?
I would have never […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Action/Comedy
Director: Jeffrey Chiang
Year: 1992

Rating:

NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
At various times, The Prince Of Temple Street is a comedy, drama, romance or triad fight flick, but that isn’t the problem. The problem is that none of these elements is sufficiently compelling to justify the running time, let alone all four of them.
Andy Lau […]