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 |  |  | |  Shadowless Sword (see film details)
Action/Adventure / Martial Arts
This movie is terrible. It rips off just about every movie from "Lord Of The Rings" to "Crouching Tiger" to "House of Flying Daggers" to "Braveheart" and it goes on and on like this. One of the worst and most generic Korean swordplay films ever.
| | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | N | Insanity. Maybe nothing super new or innovative, but, oh yes, entertaining. Fabulous wirework, mythical powers, great fighting. And you can't put HOFD up there with those other movies. | Shmicked |
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| | | |  House Of Flying Daggers (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
"Hero" was a great movie. But I didn't admire it for the dazzling kung-fu battles (like most fans of the genre might have) as much as I did the look, the photography, the storytelling and the over-all style of the movie. The fight scenes took a backseat to all those nice things. Where "Hero" fails, this movie succeeds. "Flying Daggers", I thought, had way more exciting and energetic fight scenes that get better and better as the movie progresses (my personal favorite was the bamboo forest scene). The movie, like "Hero", is great to look at. Great use of colors and great visuals. The CG assisted camera-work was also very cool. The story is a little conventional with a couple of twists and turns but moves quite fluidly (although I have to admit that the pacing of the movie is a little off, but that's forgivable). Reguardless, I thought this was a fantastic movie experience. Fan or not a fan, you'll love "House of Flying Daggers". |
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| | | |  Rob-B-Hood (see film details)
Action/Adventure / Comedy
I'm fairly disappointed with this one. Stupid plot, stupid characters, and the movie drags on for over 2 hours!!! The action scenes are forgettable. The jokes are dead. Daniel Wu's Brokeback Mountain gay joke was NOT funny. Leave the gay jokes to Kevin Smith or anyone else who can write funnier gay jokes. I'm a huge fan of JC's so as you can imagine, it's hard for me to admit it when one of his movies sucks. Rob-B-Hood is waay too cute for its own good.
| | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | N | I agree with Mr Giodanella. The US version is a very accessible Jackie Chan film for those who are not kung fu comedy purists. I have a large collection of Chan movies and this is the only one that had my family literally roaring with laughter. Thumbs Up! | AB13687 | | N | Normally, nobody hates Jackies comedys more then I do, but I actually enjoyed this one. Not one of Jackies best movies, but worth sitting through. Also, the brokeback mountain joke was just a one liner, nothing to get all shook up over. | William Giordanella |
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| | | |  Fatal Contact (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Where do I even begin? This movie left me extremely confused and infuriated. Is it an action movie? Is it a melodrama? Or is it a Shakespearean tragedy? I don't know!!! This movie tries to be all of those in one movie and it fails miserably! The film opens quite strong with Wu Jing showing off his wu shu skills while a gang leader looks on hoping to recruit him to join his underground fight club. From there, we get some pretty darn good fight sequences. I personally loved Wu Jing vs. the dude with nails imbedded in his shoes and gloves; cool stuff. The third and final act just completely falls apart. Everything gets more and more rediculous. Without giving anything away, I'll just warn you that this is NOT the feel good movie of the year. For the fight scenes alone, I'll give Fatal Contact an extremely generous 2/5.
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| | | |  Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children [LE 2-Disc Box] (see film details)
Animation / Science Fiction
Waaaaaaaay better than the first "Final Fantasy" movie! The computer animation is absolutely stunning! The action scenes are literally dizzying and I loved it! The best direct-to-DVD release Sony has ever released!
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| | | |  Fearless [2006] (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
This is by far Jet Li's best Chinese film in years! It ranks up there with "Fist Of Legend" and "Fong Sai Yuk 1", two of my absolute favorite Jet Li films!
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| | | |  Spirited Killer (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
[Note; This review refers to the US DVD by Brentwood.] This movie is utter CRAP! Do not, I repeat, do not let the attractive box art fool you. This movie is advertised with large image Tony Jaa right on front with a freeze frame from Tom Yum Goong plastered right below the main image. Yes Jaa does appear in this film...for about 10 minutes. Yes, only 10 minutes! Plus the voices are terribly dubbed and out of synch (even the Thai track). This is basically a blatant B-grade release to capitalize on Jaa's recent success with Ong Bak and Tom yum Goong. Don't expect the same quality of those 2 films with this one. This movie SUCKS! Save yourself some money and just skip out on this one.
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| | | |  Volcano High (see film details)
Martial Arts / Fantasy
Wow, what a boring movie! I'll admit that the story is pretty interesting however I just feel that I (a normal person with absolutely no experience making movies let alone write a review about one) could have done it better. The action, the special effects and the "Hip Hop" dubbing [available on the US DVD] all sucked. The original Korean version was worse. It was even longer! Big disappointment.
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| | | |  Thunderbolt [1995] (see film details)
Action/Adventure / Martial Arts
The last time I saw this movie was about ten years ago when it was first released. I didn't really like it then, but I like it now! The car-chases were well done and the fight scenes (though there weren't many) were just kick-ass perfect!
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