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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. ...

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Review of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (DVD)

Bruce Lee-thal!

Advantages: Supreme martial arts choreography, humourous and most memorable final fight scene.
Disadvantages: If I HAD to nitpick, I suppose the comedy is quite basic

The Martial Arts genre has, ever since I started watching movies, been at the very top in my mind and has never lost its place to any other type of movie. My heart was stolen the first minute I watched Enter the Dragon, starring Bruce Lee, when I was 4 years old. It's an 18 certificate movie, but my parents were far from strict about prohibiting me from watching films of a violent nature. As I watched Bruce kick and punch his enemies all over the ...
...blockbusters for me, and over the last 20 years I have watched them all countless times and never lost an iota of enthusiasm for any. However, there is one film that surpasses the rest in storyline and quality of fight sequences and that is Way of The Dragon. Background ++++++++++ This film came at a major juncture in Bruce Lee's life. He had just featured as the leading man in two box office smash hits in China, The Big Boss and Fist of Fury. ...

oxonian 01.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Way Of The Dragon (Special Collector's Edition) (DVD)

"No, you're the dragon !"

Advantages: martial arts scenes with Brandon, action, bit of romance, Powers Boothe
Disadvantages: intro, 'hero' tagline, ok acting by Brandon

Jake Lo (Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee)attends college and finds himself at a demo for China, while returning to the campus. There he meets Paul Yang (Dustin Neguyen), who is an activist trying to raise money and needs Jake to attend, as he was a witness of a massacre in China, which this Demo relates to. He refuses to attend. Meanwhile in mainland China a mafia boss called Tony Cerrano (Nick Mancusco)meets with a former drug runner of his Kinman ...
...gettting angry at him for not helping. Sadly, this incident leads to worse later....... During life drawing class Jake gets to know a girl, who, after seeing his drawing asks him out for a date. Unsuspecting Jake ends up going to the location only to discover that it was a setup and he ended up going to a function to raise money started by Paul Yang. While at the function Tony turns up with some goonies, kills one of the money donors right in front ...

thepunisher 25.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Rapid Fire (DVD)

Give it a try, very likeable

Advantages: One of the few movies with Brandon Lee
Disadvantages: Tia Carrera

Showdown In Little Tokyo- A review by Addy ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ ;☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻ THE CAST Dolph Lundgren ... Sgt. Chris Kenner Brandon Lee ... Johnny Murata Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ... Funekei Yoshida Tia Carrere ... Minako Okeya Toshirô Obata ... Sato (also as Toshishiro Obata) Philip Tan ... Tanaka Rodney Kageyama ... Eddie Ernie Lively ... Detective Nelson ...
...Takayo Fischer ... Mama Yamaguchi Simon Rhee ... Ito Vernee Watson-Johnson ... Nonnie Russell - Coroner Lenny Imamura ... Kickboxer #1 Roger Yuan ... Kickboxer #2 Synopsis A tale of revenge kenner grew up in Japan and moved to L.A as an adult becoming a cop he utilises his knowledge of Japanese by working in Little Tokyo. Eventually whilst making routine arrests he recognises Yakuza tattoo's in realation to his parents being murdered. Kenner ...

tayloa22 24.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Showdown In Little Tokyo (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)