Eagle's Claw (Dubbed) (Wide Screen)

Advantages: Jackie Chan at his strongest, fastest and funniest!
Disadvantages: huh?

...Jackie Chan has slowly climbed the ladder to become my favourite martial artist. He surpasses Tony Jaa, Jet Li and even Bruce Lee. This movie contains everything from slapstick to the most innovative techniques used in martial arts movies. Ways you can watch the movie: Cantonese with English subtitles or without, Chinese with English subtitles or without and my personal favourite English dubbed without subtitles or with. Note that you can also vary any of these three ie English with Cantonese subtitles etc. The story revolves around an evil clan who have destroyed every martial technique except the snake fist. Jackie Chan is bullied by many of the students in the martial arts school where he works. Jackie Chan meets Grandmaster Pai Cheng-Tien who is the surviving sensei of the snake fist technique. Jackie soon learns the snake... Read review

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Advantages: A great film, with great performances.
Disadvantages: The action is directed near the end of the film.

...The Eagle Has Landed (1977) It is 1943, and Mussillini has just been rescued from a mountain top prison in Italy by a daring German commando raid. Now Hitler wants Winston Churchill kidnapped. From the pen of Jack Higgins, the film puts you straight into the depths of Nazi Germany and the story of how Colonel Kurt Steiner (MIchael Caine), Liam Delvin (Donald Sutherland) and 15 German paratroopers desend into the quiet English countryside to carry out their do or die mission. The acting performances are first class with Robert Duval as Colonel Max Radl, a battle scarred survivor of the Russian Front that is now the brains behind the mission. A young Jenny Agutter, who provides the love interest for Donald Sutherland as a young nieve country girl. There is a classic casting of Larry Hagman as Colonel Pitts and his fellow American... Read review

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Advantages: good WWII action movie
Disadvantages: yanks

...The Eagle as Landed. A superb World War II movie, based on the Best selling novel by- Jack Higgins. Back in Germany a plot is hatched by German Officer Max Radl (Robert Duvall) to try and kidnap Sir Winston Churchill, whilst he makes a short stop over at a small Norfolk village. Given the go ahead Adolf Hitler himself Radl searches for the best men to do the job, he finds, Colonel Kurt Steiner (Michael Caine) who is in charge of a group of an elite Para troop regiment. With the help of an Irish IRA member Liam Devlin (Donald Sutherland) they set about their plans. Parachuting into England under the cover of darkness, and wearing Polish Paratrooper outfits, they soon make their way to the town, whilst Devlin who went ahead of the invasion, has already established himself into the community as the local Gamekeeper and met... Read review

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