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- Ringo Lam directed wild crime
action melee. Chow Yun Fat, Simon Yam and the sluttiest woman
ever to appear on film pull off a gem robbery in Thailand. But
things go really bad and Chow is left for dead. This proved to
be the dumbest thing that sicko Simon Lam has ever done as Chow
returns to Hong Kong in pursuit of them and commences to kill
anyone remotely connected to his near demise. This is the one
that started the "track the bullet" gimmick that's
now a cliché. Tremendous action without then excesses
of some of the other heroic bloodshed movies.
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SUPERCOP 3 (released
here as SUPERCOP)
- Jackie Chan reprises his role
as a Hong Kong cop who not only always gets his man but will
follow him halfway across the planet punching and kicking the
whole way. In this one he's teamed with the equally incredible
Michelle Yeoh. The action moves from Mainland China to the Golden
Triangle to Kuala Lumpur. Bullets and fists fly furiously and
the plot twists and turns like a snake as Jackie and Michelle
chase after Red China's Public Enemy Number One. The final action
scene featuring helicopters, trucks, buses, trains and a dozen
badguys has to be seen to be believed. This is the definition
of "rising action" as things go from bad to worse atop
a speeding train. High octane stuff.
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BULLET
IN THE HEAD
- John Woo's masterpiece of berserk
action. In the 1960's some juvenile delinquents flee Hong Kong
to hide out in Saigon. But there's a war on there and they wind
up in the middle of the Tet Offensive. Can they survive a gang
war in the middle of the largest ground action of the Viet Nam
War? This one will make you V chip melt down.
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BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR
- A medieval martial arts fantasy
told as a violent fairy tale. Director Ronnie Yu (now relegated
to junk like BRIDE OF CHUCKY) presents a movie that is continually
amazing. There's a look to this movie that is unequaled in any
other film anywhere. Pure escapist entertainment that takes you
to another world for its entire running time. Critics who slavered
all over CROUCHING PENGUIN HIDDEN PANDA like it was a cinema
revelation had obviously not seen this one.
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IN THE LINE OF DUTY 3
- The third entry in this great
series featuring Cynthia Khan as a Hong Kong policewoman who's
always in the wrong place at the right time. In this one she
faces a male/female robbery team from Japan. These two are the
most sadistic killers I've ever seen in a crime film. They're
actually frightening. They have no regard for human life including
their own. Great chases and amazing gun and martial arts battles
in a film that moves at a frantic pace. There's even a great
car chase; the one area of the action thriller genre that Hong
Kong does NOT do well.
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 THE LAST BLOOD
- The Dali Lama visits Singapore
and is attacked by terrorists who gun him down. They also gun
down the girlfriend of a low level Triad gangster. The two are
taken to the same hospital where it's discovered that they share
the same extremely rare blood type! There's only five people
in the Singapore area with this type/ Talk about high concept!
The cops and the terrorists race to find the blood donors as
the clock ticks. The terrorists are one step ahead of the cops
at every turn. And this is all complicated by a low-level hustler
who's the key to everything. More time intensive than two Die
Hard movies put together. It never slows down for a second. The
action is brutal and intense and the plot twists race by like
the cars at Indy! This movie is NUTS!
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(aka THE RAPE OF THE RED LOTUS TEMPLE)
- Ringo Lam's only entry into
the martial arts genre. In this period martial arts actioner
legendary martial arts figures Wong Fei Wei and Fong Sai Yuk
meet. For us this is like having Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone
in the same movie. The two are taken prisoner by an evil, evil,
EVIL warlord who runs the mysterious Red Lotus Temple, a subterranean
labyrinth that makes the Temple of Doom seems like a trip to
Wal-Mart. The warlord takes great pleasure in torturing his slaves
and setting his army of killers on them for the slightest infraction.
But he didn't bargain for having China's two greatest fighting
legends in da house. This one eschews the usual wire-work found
in these movies and goes for straight kung-fu battling. My brother
in law who's a fifth degree black belt went crazy when I sent
him a tape of this one.
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IRON MONKEY
- Consistently action wracked
throughout. Donnie Yen is a masked outlaw hero back in the days
of the Chinese Dynasties. Directed by fightmaster Yuen Woo Ping.
Think Zorro with some of the most stunning kung-fu action ever
filmed. The fight scenes are blistering. And the pace is fast.
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HEROIC TRIO
- Three super-chicks (one is even
referred to as Wonder Woman in the laserdisc I own). Michelle
Yeoh, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung take on some seriously creepy
badguys in a weird Gotham City/post apocalypse world. This is
THE most comic bookish comic book of a movie ever made. Moody
and violent. It a generally inferior sequel called THE EXECUTIONERS.
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TIGER CAGE 2
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- Here's a sequel superior
to its original. Donnie Yen with Yuen Woo Ping again.
Great girl-fight action in a plotline that threatens to veer
off the road and never come back. Filled with multi-level fights
and stirring action scenes.
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THUNDERBOLT
- And because HK action flicks
always go over the top this list will also with an eleventh entry!
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mysteriously, has never appeared here. Jackie's a race car driver
who runs afoul of the mob. He's not as jokey in this one and
that's reflected in the action which gets brutal. There's a jaw-dropping
one-against-all fight in a Japanese pachinko house (that strange
vertical-pinball game with the hundreds of tiny ballbearings.).
Then an absolutely astounding fight inside of a mobile home suspended
over an auto-junkyard by a swinging crane. Some of Jackie's most
incredible and imaginative gags in addition to his most heartfelt
performance. And the climactic car race is edge of the seat stuff.
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