Comments (0) The more I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that Bodyguard from Beijing is a shoddy action movie with some entertaining set pieces, a theme song by Linda Wong that I personally adore, and a hot female lead.
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate!! The movie ended up winning 5 awards today, including the aforementioned Action Design one. I’ve seen three of the five nominated films; this and Let the Bullets Fly are the two I haven’t seen yet. I wasn’t a huge fan of Sorcerer and the White Snake, which wasted Jet Li’s [...]
There’s just something about Chinese cinema that makes it easy to swallow that the characters live in a world where people use fisticuffs on each other at the slightest provocation. You just roll with it.
Pink Force Commando (1984) Starring: Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh, Elsa Yeung, Sylvia Peng, Teresa Tsui, Hilda Liu Hao-Yi, Alan Lau Director: Chu Yen-Ping Action Director: Lam Maang-Cheung(?) There’s a strange sense of closure that I felt as I finished watching this movie. The movie’s final image—most likely cribbed from some Spaghetti Western—shows a male character [...]
One should note that the low-budget nature of the production means that the filmmakers weren’t able to find a filming location bereft of modern-day power lines, or maybe director Griffin Yueh was just lazy.
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