Martial Arts > 18 years and over Martial Arts > up to 5 GBP

The most impressive martial artist in film.

Advantages: Amazing fight scenes and stunts, no wires so everything you see is for real.
Disadvantages: The plots aren't amazing but still watchable, not for people who don't like foreign films.

...Panna Rittikrai, starring the great Tony Jaa as Ting, and Thai comedian Petchtai Wongkamlao and George (Humlae). The thing with Tony Jaa is he doesn't have the screen presence on Bruce Lee, or the charisma of Jackie Chan, but what he can do is perform fight scenes better than anyone before him. It takes Jaa atleast twice as long as his predecessors to make a movie because of the one fact that makes him better then those before him - he doesn't use ...
...air for 30 seconds, just Tony Jaa doing incredible feats of agility and skill. If anyone doesn't believe he's not using wires I suggest you look up 'Tony Jaa high kick' on you tube and watch in amazement. The main story of the film is that a small poor Thai village the head of a ancient buddah statue named Ong Bak has been stolen. The statue is worshipped by the village's people so Ting decides he will find Ong Bak at any cost. This leads him to ...

Mcicp1981 19.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Tony Jaa Box Set - Ong-Bak/Warrior King (Collectors Editions) (Box Set) (DVD)

Bruce Lee-thal!

Advantages: Supreme martial arts choreography, humourous and most memorable final fight scene.
Disadvantages: If I HAD to nitpick, I suppose the comedy is quite basic

The Martial Arts genre has, ever since I started watching movies, been at the very top in my mind and has never lost its place to any other type of movie. My heart was stolen the first minute I watched Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee, when I was 4 years old. It's an 18 certificate movie, but my parents were far from strict about prohibiting me from watching films of a violent nature. As I watched Bruce kick and punch his enemies all over the ...
...blockbusters for me, and over the last 20 years I have watched them all countless times and never lost an iota of enthusiasm for any. However, there is one film that surpasses the rest in storyline and quality of fight sequences and that is Way of The Dragon. Background ++++++++++ This film came at a major juncture in Bruce Lee's life. He had just featured as the leading man in two box office smash hits in China, The Big Boss and Fist of Fury. ...

oxonian 01.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Way Of The Dragon (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

Lone Wolf and Cub kick some serious butt

Advantages: a decent samurai movie
Disadvantages: dubbing, sound quality in parts as well as picture quality

This is a classic old school samurai film. This film was previously banned in this country for it's violent graphic nature, but nowadays I guess we are made of sterner stuff. If you are easily distressed then this moive is not for you. There are very explicit scenes of swords being buried into heads, heads splitting in half, and more blood gushing than you can shake a stick at. The film centres around Ogami Itto, who is played by Tomisaburo Wakayama ...
...to be referred to has Lone wolf and Cub. Itto is the shoguns chief executioner and a powerful man. So much so that lord Retsudo soon wants him dead out of sheer fear. In the initial attack Itto's wife is slain, and Itto decides to dedicate his life to taking the life of lord Retsudo and all those close to him, {one way of getting rid of the existential angst i guess} In a scene at this point he places a ball on the floor and a sword and he makes ...

tayloa22 29.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Shogun Assassin (Strong Uncut Version) (DVD)

fist of fury

Advantages: good quality
Disadvantages: bruce lee is dead

incredible film, i saw this film long time ago and this film still amazing bruce lee is one of the best fighter in the world. bruce lee play as chen zen, he returns to to take revenge of his teaher's death by the japanese .He beats up some japanese dojo, he discovers that his master is murdered by the japanese to close his school,and then he punish the mastermind then kills them.You will see the punch is powerful.the action is great , good acting. ...
...cinema history producer :Raymond Chow story line Low wei director :low wei Director: Low Wei released by golden harvest cast chen zen: bruce lee yuan le-erh : nora miao chang chun hsia : james tien yen : maria yi chao fu ching chen feng kwai sher: yen chieh han suzuki: riki hashimoto tien :chung hsin hwang hsu :quin lee you should see this film is very cool dvd this is my favorite.good quality ...

marema48 02.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fist Of Fury (Platinum Edition) (DVD)

"No, you're the dragon !"

Advantages: martial arts scenes with Brandon, action, bit of romance, Powers Boothe
Disadvantages: intro, 'hero' tagline, ok acting by Brandon

Jake Lo (Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee)attends college and finds himself at a demo for China, while returning to the campus. There he meets Paul Yang (Dustin Neguyen), who is an activist trying to raise money and needs Jake to attend, as he was a witness of a massacre in China, which this Demo relates to. He refuses to attend. Meanwhile in mainland China a mafia boss called Tony Cerrano (Nick Mancusco)meets with a former drug runner of his Kinman ...
...gettting angry at him for not helping. Sadly, this incident leads to worse later....... During life drawing class Jake gets to know a girl, who, after seeing his drawing asks him out for a date. Unsuspecting Jake ends up going to the location only to discover that it was a setup and he ended up going to a function to raise money started by Paul Yang. While at the function Tony turns up with some goonies, kills one of the money donors right in front ...

thepunisher 25.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Rapid Fire (DVD)