Crazy Hong Kong action with international star Chow Yun Fat. Watch as Chow Yun woos the ladies and smacks them around, dresses like a Vegas lounge lizard, wields a yo-yo shotgun, and wets his pants.
You’ll also get Conan Lee as his buddy-cop partner. Conan may not be as smooth with the ladies, but he does get to tear up the place in some terrific kung fu battles and an epic chainsaw duel.
When a band of fast and furious (or at least disgruntled) bikers get tired of their day jobs waiting tables at a pizza place, they go on a robbing spree that has the entire Mumbai police force up in arms. Only supercop ACP Jai Dixit (Abhishek Bachchan) and his shades can stop them before they rob again, and again. And again, because it takes him a quite a while to stop them.
Princess is definitely not your average animated movie, and it's not your average revenge flick either.
The animation style is somewhat simplistic but it works. The flashbacks that are presented in actual film—not animated segments—are jarring, and prove effective and unsettling.
Planky Mark Gregory (Bronx Warriors—82) is Red Indian Thunder Warrior, a passive and lethal ex ‘Nam vet Navajo who travels home to his ancestral lands to find evil bankers and redneck lawmen are dynamiting his tribal burial grounds.
I've been keeping an eye on Pierre Morel ever since his directorial debut District B13, which was a fantastic action movie that starred parkour: the art of free running, jumping, and climbing. Despite the lightweight plot it was an electric piece of entertainment.
Morel is back with Taken, another movie that's high on action and light on plot, but this time it stars Liam Neeson. He's going to rip Paris apart with his bare hands (and maybe a few knives and guns), Steven Seagal-style, to get his kidnapped daughter back.
Tropa de Elite is an amazingly good film; by turns brutally real, disturbing, and horrifyingly funny.
It claims to be based on a true story (which occurred around 1997) and I find that sadly believable. The main plot revolves around the captain of an elite police unit trying to find a replacement for himself. At the same time he's also dealing with the imminent birth of his first child, the horrendous stress of his job, and a mission to clear out a dangerously violent slum so that the Pope can stay there overnight.
Dirty Harry in the mean, dusty streets of Jaimaica. After shooting two men dead for interrupting his opening love scene, trigger-happy cop Capone (Paul Campbell) is transferred to his hometown Kingston to deal with gun runners and drug dealers. This guy gets results, too! He manages to shoot several people on his first day back.
A man wakes up in the hospital with amnesia after being shot in the head. He's told that his family has been murdered in the incident that left him nearly dead. He discovers he used to be in the Serbian special forces, or—more bluntly—an assassin.
This isn't an auspicious start for the Fourth Man. The "guy wakes up from a coma with amnesia" plot has been done a lot, and it obviously invites comparison to the Bourne Identity. Good news: this Serbian thriller is a surprisingly dark, grim, and violent tale that uses the same tired beginning but isn't the same kind of movie at all.
If you ask most westerners what they know about Yuen Woo-ping they'll probably talk about his elaborately choreographed fight scenes in movies like The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And for good reason; Woo-ping is one of the top martial arts choreographers in the world.
He's been around a long time, though, and he used to direct movies more frequently. Tiger Cage came out in 1988 and anyone expecting a lot of flashy kung fu and wire-work is in for a surprise if they give this movie a whirl. It features absolutely savage violence—baseball bats, headbutts, knee-biting, gunshots to the face, and bonecrushing stunts. Why settle for just shooting a guy when you can shoot him, have him fall off a building and then land on a moving bus?
Co-producer James (freakin' cheese) Woods carves his way through this Chinese Bookie Production as Uncle Mel, a fast talking self confessed 'Junkie' and real good thief Fagin character who teaches a pair of curtain haired meth addict gen-X teens how to survive the drug addled gutter world they all inhabit.
