Martial Arts > Chan, Dennis Martial Arts

Kickboxer-Exciting,Brutal,Van Damme's Best Showcase

Advantages: Best of its kind, Exciting and Realistic fights, Beautiful Locations, Well Acted
Disadvantages: Very Violent, Basic Plot,

...memorable and have a powerful and quite realistic presence. Kurts brother is even played by Dennis Alexio who was a former undisputed world champion kickboxer and gives the film even more punch. The best film of its kind and set the benchmark. Has been much imitated since but never bettered. ...

webtoolsclient1 17.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kickboxer (DVD)

Kickboxer Act of War

Advantages: Some decent fight scenes
Disadvantages: Very predictable

Act of War, the 3rd Kickboxer film, is a prime example of not knowing when to stop a good thing. The first 2 films were pretty good, and had a good storyline. This lost the way. Now in Rio de Janeiro and robbed by a couple of kids, David and Xion end up befriending the children and uncovering an illegal ring. David, naturally, ends up fighting the star attraction at the end, and beating him of course. and all turns out good. It's very predictable ...
...more. There are some decent fight scenes, but not anywhere near as good as the first 2 films. Apparently, there were quite a few Kickboxer films after this one, which I didn't bother to watch. So far as I'm concerned they should have stopped at the 2nd. ...

vwelsby 15.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kickboxer 3 - The Art Of War (DVD)

Martial arts Van Damme Extreme Triller boxset!

Advantages: Excellent for all ages and the best fight scenes on dvd!
Disadvantages: Not so good on disk or box quility

...fights and a history of martial arts. Maybe a few years back but Van Damme has made three excellent movies great for all ages so just sit back and relax and prepare for a set of martial arts thrillers. Kick boxer: legendary film with an excellent story line, the best fight movie and all time other than A.W.O.L. Savate: Yet another great release from van damme one that will not let u sleep so easily. Extreme Dragon: Got some of the best fight ...

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Review of Martial Arts - 3 Dragons - Kickboxer / Savate / Extreme Dragon (Box Set) (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 ...

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Review of Drunken Master (DVD)