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Another quality film from Korea

Advantages: the film is real classy
Disadvantages: a sad ending

...hitting, realistic fight scenes. The Warrior, Musa in Korea, is a period movie set in 14th century, that actually tells the story of China from a different view point, which is refreshing. The film centres around a group of Korean diplomats protected by a band of Korean soldiers. However in the group is 3 main central characters. The main hero is Yeo-Sol, played by Jung Woo-Sung, Choi Jung, played by Joo Jin-Mo, an upper class, general, who is very ...
...all the men look up to. Yeo-Sol is a slave of one of the elderly diplomats. So this diplomatic envoy is on a mission of peace to see the Ming emperor. Upon arrival they are greeted by a very frosty reception, and are surrounded by Chinese soldiers. Sadly they are considered as spies and are arrested. Whilst being transported by prison wagons, the wagons are ambushed by Mongols that slay all the Chinese guards, but leave the Korean alive. However ...

tayloa22 29.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Warrior (DVD)

Tung Lung, Honours Bruce's death

Advantages: Excellent martial arts, from Tung Lung
Disadvantages: none

Game of Death 2 Staring Tung Lung, Huong Cheng-Li, Roy Horan, Lee Hoi-San and previously unseen footage of Bruce Lee. The film in many ways is similar to Fist of Fury 2 they are both about avenging the death of a brother. In this case Bobby Lo played by Tung Lung set out to get revenge for the death of Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) at the hands of Jim Koo (Huong Cheng-Li). This film has a lot less American influence than Game of Death , which ...
...and fighting scenes than a well thought out story Probably the best Bruce Lee film ever made, even though Bruce Lee is not actually in it. Made with previously unseen footage of his films, a stand in and completed with the classic poorly dubbed English lame dialogue and amazing Kung Fu. When Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is killed at friend Jim Koo's funeral, brother Bobby Lo (Tong Lung) sets out to avenge his death. Bobby Lo sets off to Japan to meet ...

Bandit_Haze 03.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Game Of Death 2 (DVD)

A disgrace to the memory of a legend

Advantages: the story gave a brief insight into Lee's life
Disadvantages: poor acting, poor effects, poor music

...the film didn't actually star Bruce Lee. It was an attempt at portraying his life up until his untimely death. The actor playing Lee was obviously a well trained martial artist but he didn't act very well at all; to be honest I felt a little embarrassed to be watching it. THE STORY This biography of famed martial arts actor Bruce Lee begins as Lee is leaving Hong Kong for America, to fulfill his mother's wishes. The story follows him to San Francisco, ...
...shows some of the conflicts Bruce Lee actually faced in his life, such as racism. There are some electric fight scenes and some actual footage from Bruce Lee films (The Big Boss for instance). "Did I enjoy it?" --- I did enjoy the fighting but the acting skills were rubbish and so, on the whole, I didn't enjoy the film The story was good, the director really choose the most influencial periods in Bruce Lee's life to portray into film. I didn't ...

mimicmwb 13.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Bruce Lee - The Man - The Myth (DVD)

Bruce Li, not Bruce Lee

Advantages: pretty good martial arts
Disadvantages: it lacks Bruce Lee's, choreography

...of his brother. As in Fist of Fury it is all about the Chinese against the Japanese. This film is made in similar style to Game of death 2 as in there is more fighting than anything else. In Fist of Fury 2 Bruce Lee had already been killed before the film started. In fact he was killed at the end of Fist of Fury by the Japanese council. Just as Bruce Lee avenged the death of his teacher, Bruce Li avenges the death of his brother. The film is literally ...

Bandit_Haze 03.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Fist Of Fury 2 (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)