Fate of Lee Khan – Review
Director King Hu is one of those filmmakers who gets a lot of critical praise but his work has not had the wide distribution it deserves. He started at Shaw Brothers and his famous swordplay epic Come Drink With Me is now rightly regarded as a classic of the genre. Fed up with the restricted […]
Fearless Hyena – Blu Ray Review
Jackie Chan struggled with his early films for producer/director Lo Wei with each film failing at the box office. Until he was lent out to Seasonal films and made the two blockbuster kung fu comedy movies Snake In The Eagles Shadow and Drunken Master. When he got back to the Lo Wei production company he […]
Mini Reviews – Joy Sales DVDs
Below are some mini-reviews of a few of the Joy Sales Legendary Collection DVD releases in Hong Kong. All are anamorphic widescreen original language with English subtitles and all-region so are worth picking up at the current cheap prices as they will soon be out of print. CARRY ON PICKPOCKET (1982) Starring: Sammo Hung, […]
Unbeatable – Blu Ray Review
Unbeatable was originally called MMA because one of the main features of the story is the new sport of cage fighting and mixed martial arts. Fai (Nick Cheung) was once a world champion in boxing but has to escape to Macau and get away from the loan sharks he owes money too. While helping out […]
Once Upon A Time in Shanghai – Review
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai is yet another retelling of the story of Ma Wing-Jing a poor country bumpkin who goes to Shanghai seeking fame and fortune but ends up on the wrong side of powerful gang bosses. Philip Ng plays the title character who goes with two friends to the big city and […]
From Vegas To Macau – Review
Director Wong Jing is a director that I have liked in the past, although his films tend to be a mishmash of different ideas and not always coherent they have mostly been fun to watch. He had one of his […]
The Suspect – Review
Dong-chul (Gong Yoo) is the best field agent in North Korea – until he is abandoned during a mission and his wife and daughter are brutally murdered. Hunted and on the run, he takes a job as a driver for the CEO of a big powerful corporation. The chairman of the business is assassinated but […]
The Raid 2 – Review
The most talked about sequel for action and martial arts movie fans finally arrived this year with Gareth Evan’s follow up to The Raid, titled unsurprisingly, The Raid 2. The same star is leading the action and I was eager to see how they could top the previous excellent outing. After fighting his way out […]
Firestorm (2013) – Review
Andy Lau has had a long and varied career in Hong Kong films and still seems as busy as ever, this is his latest cop thriller Firestorm directed by Alan Yuen. Lau plays a senior police officer Lui who has become obsessed with bringing down criminal gangster Cao (Hu Jun) and after a mole, he […]
Black Mask (Uncut) – Blu Ray Review
Jet Li plays Tsui Chik, a former test subject of a project to create super-soldiers, impervious to pain and trained to stop at nothing to complete their missions. But he is forced to escape with his comrades after the project was suddenly cancelled and most of his squad killed. Now he is trying to have […]