Martial Arts > R Martial Arts

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)

Unwatchable. Nearly.

Advantages: Reasonable fight scenes, threatening villain
Disadvantages: Poor lighting and sound; lack of script, plot and acting; and that mullet.

Cynthia Rothrock plays a waitress, who moonlights as a gangfighter to earn money to put her sister through college. When her sister is one of the victims of a martial artist who is killing every woman who reminds him of his ex-wife, she goes looking for revenge. Its not the deepest plot, but has a few nice moments (and bad puns). Basically the film exists as an excuse to string the fight scenes together and give the fighters a reason for combat. ...
...the acting is poor, the script is not exactly Shakespeare and the quality of the video and audio on the DVD is not the greatest. Some of the violence is extremely graphic and unnecessary and the film definitely earned its eighteen rating.The villain is surprisingly threatening, despite wearing the worst eighties mullet ever seen. However, this film also provides a few good fight scenes and set pieces, and a chance to see Ms. Rothrock showing her ...

tirial 24.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Undefeatable (DVD)

Shaolin vs Manchu is art of Kung Fu

Advantages: Good to know chinese culture & human character
Disadvantages: some part lack of explanation clearly

"Shaolin vs Manchu" the filem title is very common & not attractive at all. But after watched it & I feel the title and the show is very different. As the movie starting is very different and attract my attention to continous watching it. This filem has very good performance actor / actress & they are really good in the Kung Fu action and human feeling. I like the Kung Fu action part as what i say this is art of Kung Fu. The best part is the true ...

fpt1978 26.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Shaolin vs Manchu (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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Review of Drunken Master (DVD)