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Only Fewl Fight Men With Monkey!

Advantages: great actions scenes; funny
Disadvantages: unrealistic

On the rare occasion that I get home at the crack of dawn, I find myself living the cliche 'too tired to go to bed'. With your mind refusing work or sleep, and somehow keeping you in a limbo of half wakefulness, there are only a couple of things you can do in my humble abode. First one is flipping to pirated playboy and watching Julie Ashton in one of her weird home made porn flicks. The other and definitely more preferred thing to do is to have ...
...find out what happens at the end. Set 100-200 years ago in China, the Iron Monkey is the Honk Kong version of Robin Hood, and unlike all other Robins, this guy does not speak with an English accent. He speaks Chinese. He is a Chinese d00d dressed up like a Japanese Ninja who stalks a very poor town at night, stealing from the rich and feeding the hungry. The fight scenes are highly unrealistic and humorous, yet they are much too much fun to watch. ...

Skyth 16.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of The Iron Monkey (DVD)

Breath taking

Advantages: Stunt work, trio action, slapstick comedy
Disadvantages: Storyline slightly poor I guess, not the usual standards.

An early work from the Chan Hung and Biao Trio, the storyline here is a drug lord one, Jackie Chan is one of the city's finest Lawyers, and Sammo once again is the famous and brilliant chubby thief, and Yuan Biao is Jackies spying ninja friend, who all get involved with the owner of a fish farm who is sueing the neighbouring cloths factory for polluting the waters which is killing her precious fish, the Lawyer falls for the owners cousin and therefore ...
...in love with the owner risks his life to discover the terrible truth of the factory, while Yuan biao discovers Sammo's disappearence and saves him with Jackie. Brilliant action from the trio, with an outstanding fight scene with jackie and some white karate boxer guy who was in I think meals on wheels. and some more stunt work from the three. DVD Features: Original cantonese audio, along with the option of english dub, with english and a few european ...

shintai88 05.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Dragons Forever (Platinum Edition) (DVD)

Viva le remake! Kill the remakers!

Advantages: Erm... hmmm... erm.... well... erm... hmmm.... hmmm...
Disadvantages: Not original, childish dialogs and a star that tries to pass as the real Lee.

Take me now Lord! This is a film in which Bruce Le (that is Le...not Lee) takes on the mantle of the real legend, Bruce Lee, and goes through a fighting journey loosely based on Lee's original concept and filmed in the actual location Lee had originally intended to use. Like Bruce Lee's famous "Game of Death", this character enters a pagoda building where every floor is guarded by a fighter that is supossedly the master of a particular style of ...
...fighter, the Wing chun expert and a master of the mystic art of Silat. After defeating all the opponents in this "Tower of death" Le must now face the might of Bolo. But we already know the outcome! :o) First time I watched this film I was about 9 years old and I thought I was watching Bruce Lee because that's how it was passed as on TV. Many years later I had this memory of seeing a film where Bruce Lee takes on a whole banch of people (like he ...

argento_rc 22.06.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Enter The Game Of Death (DVD)

Nice Pack

Advantages: Full of good action
Disadvantages: hardly any

Like many Jackie Chan vehicles, is just as enjoyable even if seen in a non-English version. With a few exceptions, the plot simply serves to space out stunt and action scenes that are among the best--and funniest--Chan has ever done.As survivors of the pirate band vow revenge on Sergeant Dragon Mao (Jackie Chan). Back in Hong Kong, officials seek to reduce the power of corrupt Police Superintendent Chun (David Lam) by giving command of one of his ...
...standard Hong Kong film, Chan took every chance to push himself to the limit. The detailed sets, which recreate late 19th century Hong Kong in exquisite detail, have been used in numerous films since. As if anyone cares about the sets in a Jackie Chan movie...so go for this movie ...

majeedkazi 27.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Jackie Chan - Project A (Special Collector's Edition) (Box Set) (DVD)

Jackie chan fighting

Advantages: a large fight scene with 40 on 5, and Ching Officials againest Jackie, more outragous stunts.
Disadvantages: No trio action

...the area, while at the same time he is being hunted down by the pirates who he defeated in the first project A movie, the story does not end there though, there is a sinster plot to the chinese Ching government being involved in hunting down rebels in hong kong, ...

shintai88 05.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Project A - Part 2 (Subtitled and Dubbed) (Wide Screen) (DVD)