Piece of crap. Cory Yuen can do so much better than Wire-fool. The movie's plot is retarded and very lame. No spoilers but it is a porn version of Bruce Lee's classic Enter the Dragon. Just that this time the evil mastermind is not developing drugs, and he invited 4 chicks to the tournament. The girls are not attractive at all, and Kasumi has no figure to wear a bikini. The love relationships were built up faster than instant cup noodles and the some of the best characters in the game were killed off in the first round. The action scenes in the movie look extremely familiar to Cory's old movies, which means that he was not creative at all. Fans can easily draw reference to movies like "Legends of Shaolin", "Kiss of the Dragon", "The One", "Cradle 2 the Grave" and others. The only good thing about this movie is that you get to see Robin Shou went from Liu King and degraded to a cheap pirate that appears no more than 4 minutes through out the movie.
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DOA: Dead or Alive
(2006)
Watch Van Damme's Street Fighter again or Watch the paint on your wall
7 December 2006
Kill Zone
(2005)
A good moral, but crappy script writing. Good Actions, but crappy directing
27 November 2005
Warning: Spoilers
S. P .L is an action thriller that you will find both entertaining and frustrating.
The bad - When Ma is fighting Bo at the end, his shirt was down to the last button, some how, when Ma fell down the building, his shirt was all buttoned up.
The good - Donnie Yen has done some breakthroughs in action movies by adding MMA style fighting into the movie. He used many grappling moves at the end.
The bad - When Ma is fighting Bo at the end, his shirt was down to the last button, some how, when Ma fell down the building, his shirt was all buttoned up.
- Only because the triad found a tape that proves Bo didn't kill the cop, they can't just release him because he will still be charge of extreme physical assault causing body harm to others. Highest sentence in HK will be 10 years in prison.
- The plot of framing the evidence is really weak. Forensic science unit can for sure tell that you have switched the bullet from the corpse.
- You can see ads and cars that are from 2004, however, the movie was set in 1997.
- A lot of Donnie Yen's moves in the movie were done before from his previous movies. The swing side split and the jumping hook kick were both done before in "Legend of the wolf". The triple kicks on Bo was done in "Blade II". The triple kicks done on 3 different guys were done before in "Iron monkey" and "Fist of Legend" (series).
The good - Donnie Yen has done some breakthroughs in action movies by adding MMA style fighting into the movie. He used many grappling moves at the end.
- The moral of the movie is that good. It shows that law is not everything, and there are people who value justice and honor above the law.
- Good acting done by the cast members, they really put in emotions and feelings into the movie.
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