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“Hostage” is the eighth collaboration between director Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins, who gave the world the undeniable hit about Yuri Boyka and the solid duology “Ninja.” Even though these films are...
If you told me that there was a film in which a whole scattering of B-action stars starred in the person of Don Wilson, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Stephen Vincent Lee, who is remembered for the role of the main antagonist in...
Here he is, finally. Russian action movie of category B. Category A sometimes makes itself felt, breaks its face on a box office failure and hides for an indefinite period, category C happily lives a unique life...
The Ip Man franchise is loved and revered by many fans of martial arts films, and the role of Bruce Lee's teacher is, without embellishment, Donnie Yen's calling card. The series is quite smooth, without obvious failures,...
China O'Brien (1988) dir. Robert Clouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgmfqCx6Zmg&ab_channel=kegorogers Before China O'Brien, the Golden Harvest film company was for me some kind of guarantor of quality. All the pictures that I watched were, so to speak, from their pens...
"Don't step back, clench your fist and strike!" I don’t know what reasons prompted Jean-Claude Van Damme to take up directing, but the experience was definitely successful. Perhaps he was offended that he was not invited to the sequel...
After a series of very, very successful projects in a row in the career of Scott Adkins (the “Collectors” duology, “Accident”, “British Psychopath”, “Ip Man 4”, and, with which many will disagree,...
After the release of the third part of John Wick, many, including me, hoped that top projects would rain down on Mark Dacascos like from a cornucopia, and he would only have time to catch...
It didn’t immediately dawn on me why the first “Collectors” were so good. It’s one thing to mindlessly get high from watching or re-watching, it’s quite another to figure out what the secret of magnificence is. It seems like an ordinary action movie, so ordinary that in this formulation lies...
The favorite genre does not live on action alone. A comedy action film needs humor, a gritty film needs drama. Without them, the film turns into a video game, where, let’s say, dozens of warriors, complex tricks, beautiful guns and delicious explosions flash, but all this is perceived coolly. Because...
"Evacuation" or in local translation: "Tyler Rake: Rescue Operation" is an American action film of 2020, shot by great professionals of entertainment cinema, and the first feature film directed by Sam Hargrave - one...
Steve and Roy are police brothers, only Steve works in Hong Kong and Roy works in Los Angeles. At one time, Roy's partner Bucky caught and hid in the zugunder the especially dangerous bandit Hawk. Four years later, literally the day after his release, he kills Bucky...
Hong Kong in the 80s and 90s was an amazing place. Imagine a geographically small city in which every day the filming of another film is certainly taking place somewhere. It doesn't matter which section of production you're in...
Inspector Lee's squad receives information about the whereabouts of the dangerous criminal Rusty, but the operation to capture the bandit and his accomplices does not go as smoothly as we would like, and the scoundrel goes into hiding with his girlfriend. The investigators have few leads, witnesses refuse to speak...
Since the third film of the successful Bollywood action franchise called “Commando” with Vidyut Jammwal in the lead role is approaching, we decided to remember and analyze the previous two films. Commando (dir. Dilip Ghosh)...
If anyone has read my past reviews, you should remember (or maybe not) that I am not a fan of this franchise, and I think that talking about a revolution in the genre is an exaggeration, but I give...
Two police officers are tasked with protecting an important witness in the case of the influential gangster Tung. On the way, their convoy is attacked by mercenaries on a tip from the big boss. The partners manage to fight off the attackers, and after killing one...
1992 is the best year in the history of combat cinema. These twelve months showed the world record-breaking, in my opinion, indicators for the quality of the genre. It was not the States who took Prima. Having secured it with reinforced concrete...
Eclecticism is far from a frequent guest in the world of cinema. Of course, purely genre films have dominated and will continue to dominate: if a poster, synopsis or word of mouth introduces the target audience of a particular genre...
I first watched this film several years before writing this review. I was already familiar with Hong Kong, but superficially. Not John Woo, not Corey Yuen, not Sammo Hung, not others...
Let's hope for some decent hand-to-hand and bloody action.
The game is cool. I hope the series will be no worse.
Thanks for posting. Hopefully more comments soon.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm crazy about Xiao Man (I hope I didn't misspell his name...
Let's hope for some decent hand-to-hand and bloody action.
The game is cool. I hope the series will be no worse.
Thanks for posting. Hopefully more comments soon.
I don't know about everyone else, but I'm crazy about Xiao Man (I hope I didn't misspell his name...