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Another quality film from Korea

Advantages: the film is real classy
Disadvantages: a sad ending

...hitting, realistic fight scenes. The Warrior, Musa in Korea, is a period movie set in 14th century, that actually tells the story of China from a different view point, which is refreshing. The film centres around a group of Korean diplomats protected by a band of Korean soldiers. However in the group is 3 main central characters. The main hero is Yeo-Sol, played by Jung Woo-Sung, Choi Jung, played by Joo Jin-Mo, an upper class, general, who is very ...
...all the men look up to. Yeo-Sol is a slave of one of the elderly diplomats. So this diplomatic envoy is on a mission of peace to see the Ming emperor. Upon arrival they are greeted by a very frosty reception, and are surrounded by Chinese soldiers. Sadly they are considered as spies and are arrested. Whilst being transported by prison wagons, the wagons are ambushed by Mongols that slay all the Chinese guards, but leave the Korean alive. However ...

tayloa22 29.08.2007 · Read full review
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Shaolin Soccer

Advantages: Funny, Hilarious
Disadvantages: Fight scenes could have been more in numbers.

...evil" faces off against The shaolin team. The evil team is on drugs, and have attained super human powers because of that. It is because of this, the goal keeper of shaolin team gets brutally injured and is replaced by one of the other players. Iron shirt the now goal keeper also gets injured and the team falls short of one player. It is at this time that Mui shows up and takes the place of goal keeper. In the final attack, Team Evil's striker leaps ...
...feild into half. Thus the Shaolin team wins the tournament. Hung gets stripped of title and is banned for the use of drugs. Well, according to me, the movies is worth the amount and is damn funny and hilarious. You can watch it not just once, but again and again and not even get bored. ...

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Special effects

Advantages: Great use of special effects, and great fight scenes
Disadvantages: story is lacking

Story is about a high school in Korea, where there is a problem with student discipline, the teachers and students all know martial arts, from wrestling to kenjutsu, however one day the internal balance of the school is knock off it hinges, as a new transfer student appears, and the head teacher has had his life attempted by an unknown assailent leaving him in a near death state, the new exchange student has a unknown and unseen potential for learning ...

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AVENGING FIST (2001)

Advantages: Good CGI with intriguing concept about the human's mind.
Disadvantages: Lacking developments on characters and storylines.

...~~~~~~~ TEKKEN ~~~~~~~ 'The Avenging Fist' seems to have many English titles, however one that particularly stood out was 'Legend of Tekken'. It was said that this film was 'loosely' based on Tekken, the computer game. You can see some inspiration of Tekken -translated as Iron Fist, which would explain a lot about the Power Gloves that were used in the movie. In some way, I can see the similarities between Nova and Jin Kazama, one of the main ...
...the basic storyline of 'The Avenging Fist' is intriguing and interesting. There is such a huge chunk of a human's brain that is not used and the idea of how a Power Glove can tap into these parts is fascinating. However, something has made this movie failed in my eyes. They have tried to spend the first 30 minutes showing the life of Nova and Belle, which I felt was too long. This meant a lot of events that have happened afterward have to be rushed, ...

Moogiekupo 27.07.2006 · Read full review
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Soccering it to 'em

Advantages: Funny as hell, packed with action and added advantage of soccer
Disadvantages: dubbing is a bit poor, subtitiles aren't very good

...making them unrealistically realistic. Shaolin Soccer is about a young man who grows up with several brothers all learning Shaolin kung fu. Whilst the rest of his brothers move away from Kung Fu and get real jobs Stephen Chow's character decides to try to find a marketable way to introduce Kung Fu to the world mixed within another past time such as singing and dancing. He eventually gets the idea to mix it with soccer and so the fun begins. I ...
...much but it is a storyline that is a little predictable but keeps you interested none the less. The acting is as good as can be expected for a dubbed/subtitled film and once you get into it you kinda forget that its dubbed etc. The effects in this film are very good with a few stunning visual effects and some very comedic moments in both acting and dialogue. In short this film will be onjoyed by anyone who enjoys Stephen Chow films, Soccer or ...

The_Reviewer1980 29.06.2006 · Read full review
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