AKA: Zombie Rival: The Super Ninja Master, here’s some incredibly awful super-crap that’ll have you popping corn in hysterics and just one of 1000’s of movies (probably) shat out by Hong Kong producers Joseph Lai and Betty Chan in conjunction with the insane Godfrey Ho.
When you start a film off with exploding heads, severed limbs that spray arterial blood like a garden hose, and a chainsaw fight, you can be pretty sure that a film is going to be over-the-top and live up to the word gore in its name.
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.
If you’re seeking out the indescribably weird, The Boxer’s Omen is a must-see. An insane Hong Kong cocktail of disgusting Thailand black magic, Buddhist spirit-fu, and a bit of martial arts, movies just don’t come much weirder than this one.
Crazy rubbish urban kung fu mess shot in the run down part of NYC and starring Charles 'La Pantera' Bonet as a pint sized, tracksuit wearing karate nut who fights slum landlords when they shut off his water, gas and heating.
More directionless martial arts crap from the diabolical duo of Producer Tomas Tang and Mr. Ho, this time starring Stuart Steen, Louise Roth, Christine O’Hara and fight choreographer Kent Poon.
Tub-o-lard (and current winner of the fat Elvis lookalikey contest) Steven Seagal is Cody, a flaccid army-man released from jail to head a Dirty Dozen (67) mission in a hectic action thriller that pulls no punches in a buzzy, souped-up story about neo-cortex thought projection and remote controlled assassins.
Have you ever wanted to see a martial arts film starring a nerdy, irritating teenager? A film that looks like it came from the 80s, filled with stupid dialog, laughable acting, glaring continuity errors, and silly fights? How about a plot that's nearly straight out of the video game Double Dragon? If so, Tiger Heart is the movie for you!
John Woo was one of the reasons I got into watching Hong Kong films many years ago. Unfortunately it's been ages since he's put out anything that I've been able to tolerate, let alone enjoy. His constant use of Woo-isms (just give the doves a rest, already) and attempts to go Hollywood left me cold.
So I didn't have high hopes for Red Cliff, especially after I heard Chow Yun Fat walked off the set right at the start.
The US has been trying to imitate Hong Kong action movies for some time; films like The Matrix have tried hard to capture the frantic, hard-hitting fights that HK films are famous for. Turn about is fair play; why wouldn't Hong Kong want to imitate Steven Seagal's biggest movie, Under Siege?
