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Bulletproof Monk

Advantages: amusing in places
Disadvantages: over the top in places

this film really suprised me! i was expecting to be rubbish, but to be fair its not really that bad. im very picky with my martial arts films as i find the flying through the air and bouncing off arrows very hard to watch, but this is watchable and sometimes even amusing! the ending is the only bit of this film that lets it down for me, but dont let that put you off, just giving my own opinion as i dont like 'fairy tale' endings, all the action throughout ...

amyloveys 15.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Bulletproof Monk (DVD)

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Ong-Bak, see it to believe it.

Advantages: Funny, exciting, amazing, great popcorn flick.
Disadvantages: The story is a little hokey. Who cares?

This is a fantastic film, I'll say that now. If you are already a Martial-Arts movie fan, you should believe the hype. I actually took quite a while to get round to seeing this one, but that was because I hadn't seen a good martial arts flick since... Jackie Chan! I hate Seagal, and Van Damme only has one or two good films. So when I finally watched Ong-Bak: my faith in 'chop-socky' films was reaffirmed. Balletic, exciting, there's even a little ...
...fight scenes, and incredible acrobatic feats that you watch this one for. The 'pants on fire' moment blew me away! When I first watched Jackie Chan (I was very young at the time) I was filled with a 'wish I could do that' sense of awe. Watching this film I felt the same way, and that's rare now that I am at a very jaded age. Very little cinema leaves me feeling the way this film does. A must watch movie, especially if you have been to Thailand! (which ...

Queequeg77 30.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Ong Bak (DVD)

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kung fu fans collect this

Advantages: good price to collect now
Disadvantages: not funny

bulletproof monk is jam packed with chinese style kung fu, yet a bit dissapointing conversations from Chow Yun Fat Based on the very underground comic book, Chow is the immortal Tibetan monk that needs to protect the scroll. the first half of the movie was rather thrilling with good computer generated animation etc. but the second half is rather repeating itself and it is rather boring. I would buy and keep this for a rainy day and when there's ...
...A punk. A chick. In a kick-ass flick. this says it all... Seann William Scott is funny as usual...so if all things failed to amuse you. you would find yourself smilling when movie is over Kung pow enter the fist...... not a bad movie, however, i would't say it is an interesting one. ...

claudiawoon 25.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Bulletproof Monk / Kung Pow - Enter The Fist (DVD)

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no strings attached

Advantages: lots of incredible fight scenes, full of stunts.
Disadvantages: shows you how unfit you are!!

Simply the best martial arts film i have seen since enter the dragon. Some of the fight scenes are unbelievable and out of this world fast. I had never heard of tony jaa before and wheni watched theis film i was blown away by how acrobatic and fast he is. As it says on the cover no useage of cgi, the things he does in the film are all carried out by him! only downfall is that its in a different language, but there are subtitles or dubbing so you ...

jeffhigh 22.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ong Bak (Subtitled And Dubbed) (Platinum Edition) (DVD)

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The Man the Myth

Advantages: Great un-cut action
Disadvantages: Ruined my view of "Game of death"

...other kids saying how brilliant Bruce Lee is and all the 80's spending my hard earned cash on exspensive strongly cut versions of his films on video. The four i got at that time were ofcourse "Big Boss, Fist of fury, Way of the dragon and Game of death" Enter the Dragon came later for me when it was shown uncut on TV very late one night after a live Liverpool european supercup game. That was the first time i saw it un cut as other times after that ...
...was still chuffed with my Bruce Lee collection and it got me very interested in the man himself, and the more i learned the more he intrigue me. His philosophies and methods were inspiring. Then came the film "Dragon" with Jason Scott Lee playing Bruce. The film gave an insight to the way Bruce came up to stardom and wanted so much to share his wisdom and skills with the western world. I still had a yearning however to see the full versions of his ...

nebcsa17th 21.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Bruce Lee (30th Anniversary Box Set) (DVD)

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