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It's Martial Arts, a Western and a Comedy!

Advantages: Good action, good story
Disadvantages: Some of the humour may be lost of western audiences

---Plot--- Sammo Hung plays Tin, a charlatan type character, who after escaping a law man (Kenny Bee) he returns to his home town, to start up a hotel where he plans to get rich by stopping the train which carry's a number of rich people and getting them to stay and spend there money in the town. There to stop him is the new sheriff Tsao (Yuen Biao). However a gang of ruthless bandits also have an eye on the train and intend to rob the passengers. ...
...Loi Fook Yuen Biao - Tsao Yasuaki Kurata - Samurai Yukari Oshima - Samurai Cynthia Rothrock - Bandit Richard Norton - Bandit (And many, many more for more details check a site like imdb) This film has a hell of a lot of characters to mention as their so many different stories's going on. You have Tin who's come to town with a bunch of prostitutes in tow. Tsao and his newly elected team of law enforcers, Sheriff - Loi Fook who's determined ...

thebluehippo 04.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Millionaires' Express (Subtitled and Dubbed) (Wide Screen) (DVD)

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story Film Review

Advantages: Fight Scenes
Disadvantages: Doesn't really provide much background to those that already have a basic knowledge of the man.

As much as I found Dragon -- a biopic of Hong Kong actor, martial artist, and philosopher, Bruce Lee -- enjoyable and entertaining, I found it rather melodramatic in places. Many wouldn't argue with the opinion that Lee was a larger-than-life character, and I know biopics are supposed to celebrate the life of a particular person, but the film lacked substance and almost felt like a parody in places, to me. Based on the book, Bruce Lee: The Man Only ...
...biopics, such as Malcolm X, Dragon doesn't offer a detailed examination of the icon's background; rather, it celebrates Lee's life in the most basic sense. There are some touching scenes involving Bruce (played by Jason Scott Lee (no relation)) and his future wife, Linda (Lauren Holly), a blonde white woman whose mother (Michael Learned) disapproves of their interracial relationship. The (fictional) fight scenes do well to capture the energy of Lee ...

andycarrington 04.02.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story (DVD)

Do the right thing.............

Advantages: Fight choreography, story
Disadvantages: Dubbing

...for the unbelievablity element. However, Fearless doesn't worry here. There are a couple of gravity defying moments, sure, but these are filmed well to make them believable, with swift moving camera angles at carefully planned moments. Yu certainly knows how to get his cameras working to his advantage. Fearless is beautifully shot, and tells a powerful story. I was saddened by the relatively poor efforts in the dubbing and the voices. Without this ...

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Review of Fearless (DVD)

Hero is a hero! Beautiful film, DVD is very good!

Advantages: Great film, good DVD, cheap
Disadvantages: This wonderful film is now availible on blu-ray (although quality difference is not great).

I love this film! The use of colour to tell the different stories is just brilliant! The martial arts are amazing but it's not just about the fight scenes. The music by Tan Dun is so beautiful, the Chinese scenery is picturesque, the acting is super and the direction is flawless. It is hailed as "one of the most beautiful films ever made" and I completely agree!! Away from the film itself, the actual DVD is good. The special features are well-made ...
...good. I have this film on blu-ray but because of the quality of the film itself, there actually isn't a great deal of difference. If you happen to be interested in blu-rays and are considering purchasing House of Flying Daggers, DON'T! The quality of the original film is very poor and comes up badly in high definition. My advise it to stick with the DVD. Beautiful film, DVD is very good! ...

MarkofWorcester 19.01.2010 · Read full review
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Review of Hero (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)