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Stunning

Advantages: Stunning visuals with great martial arts
Disadvantages: None

I purchased this film after seeing the trailer. The film is revolves around the outlaw of all martial arts. From start to finish the film captures your attention with a well thought out story along with stunning martial arts. This is what you expect from a great martial arts epic, a great story, amazing martial arts, stunning action and substance. I would highly recommend this film to anyone, it is not just for martial arts fans but also for action ...

jai247 01.01.2009 · Read full review
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Qigong Massage

Advantages: packed full with techniques and information; a serious well presented resource
Disadvantages: some may find it pricey (although not if you remember the almost 4 hours viewing time!)

...due to their training in qigong / taiji. I have now joined a tajiquan course which is quite good, but I find the explanations (I like to know the why of the how, if you know what I mean...) lacking. I therefore decided to investigate theory and method and happened upon the YMAA and Dr Yang Jwing Ming's collection of most helpful, most detailed, most interesting books and DVDs. The Qigong Massage DVD is the first I bought, after some internal deliberation, ...
...Most Taiji / Qigong DVD fall into two categories: either they are an airy-fairy new-agey load of ... not much, or they are absolutely impossible to follow as they are presented by people who can only demonstrate - not teach. This DVD is in a class of its own. Dr Yang taught engineering (his PhD, which gives him the title of Dr - he is not a physician - was in mechanical engineering) and he seems to have acquired excellent skills for transmitting ...

ventjoran 17.12.2007 · Read full review
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Seven Swords A-Slicing

Advantages: Some lovely cineamtography and really good fight choreography
Disadvantages: Rather overlong and hammy

...Mount Heaven. There they find seven master swordsmen and only they can defeat the despotic Fire-wind and save Martial Village. Vietnamese-born director Tsui Hark is one of the most highly regarded filmmakers in South-East Asia. As producer and director he has helped to create a new wave in Chinese cinema and has revitalised the wu xia genre. This type of martial arts film marries historical fact and mythical heroes and showcases breathtakingly inventive ...
...superb, giving each of the seven swords as much of a personality as its' master. They all look and work differently and each has a unique sound that identifies it amongst others. The homely yet ultimately good village is rustic and careworn, but far preferable to the decadence of Fire-wind's fortress that is little more than a gilded cage for some of its inhabitants. Hark sets the historical scene quickly, establishing the heroes and villains through ...

afy9mab 02.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Seven Swords (Subtitled) (DVD)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Confuses Audience

Advantages: See what life might have been like during the Qing Dynasty
Disadvantages: it left the viewer confused with unanswered questions

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon takes place during the Qing Dynasty and tells the story of woman and men warriers and a sword known as the Green Destiny. I was utterly confused when watching this movie and had a hard time grasping my head around the plot. This story line was very difficult to follow and was needed to be searched on the Internet to discover the plot. In my opinion, the movie didn't answer any questions that were set up in the beginning ...
...plot and the characters of the story were to confusing that it was distracting from the effects included. Personally, I beleive that Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was a pointless movie in which there was no plot but just a series of random events that made transitions through the movie. ...

secret23 19.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (DVD)

Must See - Brilliant & Ingeneous martial arts!

Advantages: Culturally accurate (As I can tell), Comical, Excellent martial arts & Choreography.
Disadvantages: Not too deep, more for action than story.

I watched this movie as a recommendation from a friend. - And I'm glad I did. This is one of Jackie Chans' first films and helped hurtle him into stardom. Don't be put off by my special effects rating, a good martial arts film doesn't need them! The choreography is outstanding and carries the film from start to finish. The story is of a young unruly martial arts student (Jackie) who is forced by his father to leave town to train with a legendary ...
...of all, feared by new apprentices'. The young Jackie later discovers the legend is all but an old drunk. He dismisses him, until later through a funny and riveting series of events their paths meet again. As the film continues, Jackie's character, Wong Fei-Hung, is taught 'drunken Kung Fu'. In the mean time it is revealed an assassin has been sent after Wongs' father. I think it is plain to see that this is soley a martial arts movie; the story there ...

Infinite7 27.10.2009 · Read full review
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