The Dragon, the Young Master Review: A classic 1980s martial art movie
Set during the 1920s in snow covered Manchuria. Kao-Ying sells information on the mining operation in Manchuria to the Japanese…
Category: Martial Art
8 Strikes of the Wildcat 1976 Review: The film seem to have been made by the bucket-load
8 Strikes of the Wildcat is yet another of the interminable sequence of cheap Hong Kong kung-fu flicks that flooded…
Guns of Dragon 1993 Review: Low budget, cops, triads, guns, martial arts, bit of comedy
This low budget mish-mash of cheesy American B-movie and ultra-violent Hong Kong action sees director and action specialist (Tony) Leung…
Ip Man 3 Review: This is like the Spider-man 3 of kung-fu movies
The year is 1959, where Ip Man lives in Hong Kong with his wife and his younger son. Trouble arises…
Ip Man 1 Review: The Reason Why Donnie Yen has become Hong Kong’s reigning action king
It’s exceedingly easy to see why Donnie Yen has become Hong Kong’s reigning action king of the 21st century after…
Ip Man 2 Review: The action is bone crunching, flesh slapping, rapid-fire bouts of humiliation
Donnie Yen is one of the unheralded stars of that year’s Fantastic Fest. He wasn’t in attendance obviously (aside from…
Kill Zone 2005 Review: It’s worth watching for Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and Wu Jing
SPL (another name: Kill Zone) is a stylish return to HK-style grim-n-gritty action noir and one welcome motion picture. Nothing…
Painted Skin 2008 Review: This film belongs to Zhao Wei and Zhou Xun
Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) is a general who rescues a young woman named Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun) during a raid…
Last Hero in China 1993 Review: Jet Li took the role of Wong Fei-Hung again
In 1993, near the end of production on Tsui Hark. And Jet Li’s third installment in the insanely successful Once…
Special ID Review: Donnie Yen is hamstrung by the lack of physical exertion afford by his role
Donnie Yen is a martial-arts icon. So Special ID naturally opens with a prolonged hand-to-hand clash in which Yen’s undercover Hong Kong…