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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Cha Chuen-Yee
Year: 1991
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I was really rooting for Off Track, but a couple of things kept me from putting it in the win column.
The first thing that bothered me is that the storytelling is so rushed that it’s easy to get confused. As it happened, I was interrupted […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Romance
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1995
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In order to enjoy a movie like Man Wanted, it helps to have the proper mindset. People who get bent out of shape by lack of realism, plot holes and purple melodrama need not apply.
One of the occupational hazards of undercover cops […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Guy Lai
Year: 1986
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I’m a big fan of Leslie Cheung, a beautiful actor with a knack for sensitive or cruel characters, but even he can’t save The Intellectual Trio, as wretched a comedy thriller as was ever produced during Hong Kong’s Golden Age (1985-1995).
This time around, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Stephen Shin
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here’s a curious thing. Hong Kong is much better at remaking foreign films than the United States. Here’s some American remakes: Abre Los Ojos became Vanilla Sky; Infernal Affairs become The Retarded — oops, The Departed; and Insomnia became the Al Pacino […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Pedicab Driver is one of those movies that reminds you of why you fell in love with Hong Kong flicks in the first place. It’s a combination of comedy, tragedy, romance and martial arts, not necessarily in that order.
Fat Tung […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1988
Rating:
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 […]
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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 / Romance
Director: Kirk Wong
Year: 1988
Rating:
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 […]