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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Andy Ng
Year: 1998
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I confess that I didn’t really expect much of The Untold Story 2. After all, the events of The Untold Story didn’t lend themselves to a sequel. I figured some triad film producers decided that popping out a quick sequel […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Category III
Director: Go Sin-Ming
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Kidnap of Wong Chak Fai gets straight to business, dropping us into the middle of the kidnapping of the title character, played by Paul Chun. Officer Ching (Kent Cheng, fabulous as usual) has followed the ransom money from the drop to […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Fung Hak-On
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s probably unfair to Edge Of Darkness that I’m only getting around to watching it now. Had I seen it when it came out in 1988, it would have blown me out of the back of the theater.
Back then, stories […]
≡ Category: Category III, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Suspense
Director: Biu Ga-Chun
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Category III flicks usually turn out to be one of two things: softcore romps rushed out to make a quick buck or genre flicks saturated in sleaze and/or violence. Obsession straddles the two (no pun intended).
In the opening minutes of Obsession, Carrie (Yip […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It seems like other countries never tire of trying to duplicate American action flicks. Most of the time, it’s an exercise in futility. The things we’re best at, like large scale destruction, special effects laden sequences, and budget busting action set pieces, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Exploitation/ Suspense
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1980
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If anyone had been paying attention at the time, it would have been impossible to miss the advent of a new major filmmaking talent in Tsui Hark, the director of 1980’s Dangerous Encounter - 1st Kind.
With little more than aggressive camera work (Hark […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: David Chung
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Watching Hong Kong movies, you get the unmistakable impression of a male-dominated society, in which the competition between men is brutal to start with, and what’s left for professionally minded women is so scant that they fight over the crumbs like seagulls over a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Billy Chan
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Captain Lee (Danny Lee, in his usual role as a cop) is an overworked policeman whose colleagues are dropping like flies in gunfights with out of control thugs. He seldom has time to spend with his wife (Carol Cheng) and son, but he […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Romance
Director: Wong Jing/ Jimmy Heung
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sometimes, when you seem to be winning, you’re actually losing.
This is certainly the case when Crab (Andy Lau) and Sam (Alan Tam), gamblers themselves, foil the scam of Japanese gamblers at a casino in Lake Tahoe as a favor […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Herman Yau
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
All of a Sudden has most of the virtues of films from the Golden Age of Hong Kong, and a few more as well. It’s lurid, fast-moving and well-acted, in a B-movie kind of way. Herman Yau’s direction is stylish. To sweeten the pot, […]