The martial arts blockbuster from the director of Best Of The Best 1 & 2. Ken Marks ... more
finds a dangerous enemy on his first day at his new school-an enemy who makes his living as the champion of an illegal fighting operation. School caretaker and ex-cop Billy Grant takes on the task of training Ken to defend himself-but what Billy doesn't know is that the man behind it all is the one man from his past who wants him dead. The action is fast and the kickboxing is furious!!
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Production Year: 2001 - Action/Adventure - Director: Dominic Sena - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Sam Shepard, Vinnie Jones, Camryn Grimes, Zach Grenier
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 2003 - Action/Adventure - Director: Jan De Bont - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Angelina Jolie, Ciaran Hinds, Chris Barrie, Gerard Butler, Noah Taylor, Djimon Hounsou, Til Schweiger
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Advantages: CD and DVD duke it out to see who's better Disadvantages: I'm wasting 6 very good discs here...
I've had enough. You know when you made that backup onto a disc and you put it away? Next day you put it into your computer and guess what? It doesn't work. And the stupid thing you did last night after backing up is delete the stuff from your PC. Fan-bloody-tastic right?
That's just the type of scenario that I get often with my discs, and boy does it annoy the hell out of me. You spend hours backing up gigs of data onto DVD or CD and then when you're feeling horny, that disc with the special 2 hour feature (featuring scantly clad beauties), just will not open. And all I did was bung it in the corner of that table for a night!
Most of the time it's our fault if our discs do not work. We copy it onto the media and then without thinking of the consequences we leave it out on the table with no protection. Few days later when you need ...
Advantages: Brilliant films Disadvantages: Only three films
I think that these three films are three of the strongest martial arts films made, they all have different elements of quality to them.
Each film is in my opinion the best film of the actors involved. Enter the dragon is the oldest film and it does show, however it is in my own opinion the best of three, bloodsport has Van Damme at his best and for me was a truly enjoyable watch, more violent and realistic than Enter the Dragon but for me not quite as good. Showdown in Little Tokyo is also a strong film with more realism than Enter The Dragon but the martial arts skill is not even close.
As a whole the three films are very watchable time and time again and make an essential part of a martial art fans collection. ...
Advantages: Action, Great Acting, Superb Soundtrack, Effects Disadvantages: None
die, but Maximus escapes his clutches and is captured by some travellers who take him to Zucchabar to become a Gladiator. The movie continues with them going to Rome, and a huge showdown at the end, with a lot of spectacular action sequences along the way.
The action in this movie is fantastic, with plenty 9but not too much) blood and gore to add to the authenticity. It is fully believable and grips your attention so well. There are some almost comic moments with the spectacular ways Maximus slaughters the various foes he faces and works the crowd.
The casting for his movie was also spot on. The characters are all played with great enthusiasm by all of the actors/actresses, and I was especially well impressed with Joaquin Phoenix?s performance. I have only ever seen him before in ?To Die For? and he was almost as good in that, but his ...
BanjoBear 27.01.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Gladiator (DVD)
When a teenager from the Midwest makes a dangerous enemy on the first day of his new school he trains with a sympathetic janitor/ex-cop to defend himself. When he's lured into an illegal fighting syndicate he quickly learns that he's a pawn for an even more deadly foe.
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