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Blind Fury (1989) Movie Review
“Blind Fury” is one of those movies from the ’80s — the glory days of vacuous action movies and high school sex comedies — that I like even though I know it’s not a...
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Secret Agents (2004) Movie Review
The French don’t generally do a lot of straight action movies, or if they do, you don’t hear a lot about them. “Crimson Rivers” (which starred “Secret Agents’” Vincent Cassel) was a stab at...
Read More »Wake of Death (2004) Movie Review
“Wake of Death”, the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme action flick, stars the Muscles from Brussels as a gangster out for revenge against fellow gangster Simon Yam. The film plays out as you might expect,...
Read More »Zombie Planet (2004) Movie Review
The most interesting thing about “Zombie Planet” isn’t that it’s a shabby production utilizing low-rent actors who aren’t really actors, but that it’s shot on digital video and the filmmakers still didn’t use on-location...
Read More »Explosive City (2004) Movie Review
At this point, with the dearth of good action films coming out of Hong Kong, I’d watch any movie that didn’t star one of the Twins. Heck, right now I’ll settle for a movie...
Read More »Three: Extremes – Dumplings (2004) Movie Review
Two years ago “Three” was released as a single movie, an anthology composed of three different stories made by three directors from three countries. (Hence the title, if you were wondering.) “Three…Extremes” once again...
Read More »White Dragon (2004) Movie Review
I’ll be the first to tell you that I don’t find a lot of the recent Hong Kong comedies, well, funny. For the most part the filmmakers take the basest form of what they...
Read More »New Police Story (2004) Movie Review
Apparently Jackie Chan is tired of being the “Clown Prince of Kung Fu”, as he’s commonly known, because his character in the highly anticipated “New Police Story” is prone to fits of crying at...
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Taegukgi: Brotherhood of War (2004) Movie Review
“Taegukgi” is the big-budget South Korean war film everyone has been waiting for, rumored to be the most expensive production in Korean movie history. No big surprise, considering writer/director Je-gyu Kang (“Shiri”) only knows...
Read More »I, Robot (2004) Movie Review
You have to wonder why Hollywood decided to make a movie from something as famous and cherished as Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”. Then again, considering that director Alex Proyas (“Dark City”) has made nothing...
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Napoleon Dynamite (2004) Movie Review
Jared Hess’ “Napoleon Dynamite” has got to be one of the strangest and most original film I’ve seen in a long while. To say that the film has no actual plot would be wrong,...
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Species 3 (2004) Movie Review
“Species III” — the sequel to a movie most known for introducing the beautiful Natasha Henstridge, in all her nude glory, to the world — is terribly slow, unfathomably uninspired, illogically long, dubiously illogical,...
Read More »Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse (2004) Movie Review
A lot seems to happen within the confines of “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”, but you’d be hardpressed to figure out what. As loud music videos in the guise of movies go, “Apocalypse” is pure popcorn,...
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) Movie Review
It’s difficult to dislike Mamoru Oshii’s sequel to his seminal anime work “Ghost in the Shell”, the cyberpunk sci-fi that influenced “The Matrix” and many others. Then again, it’s also difficult to completely like...
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King Solomon’s Mines (2004) Mini-Series TV Review
So sue me, but I didn’t know “King Solomon’s Mines” was a TV mini-series before watching it. Had I known, and considering my general aversion to TV mini-series (what, I gotta wait multiple nights...
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Trekkies 2 (2004) Movie Review
Want to know if you’ll be interested in “Trekkies 2″? Here’s a question: Did you like the first “Trekkies”? If so, then you’ll be happy with the sequel, which is more of the same....
Read More »Star Wars 6: Return of the Jedi (1983) Movie Review
Of the three original trilogies, “Return of the Jedi” has always been considered acceptable, but not overly good. Made in 1983, just three years after the superlative “Empire Strikes Back”, the final installment in...
Read More »Spin Kick (2004) Movie Review
The Korean action-comedy “Spin Kick” is what you would call a safe bet. It’s highly predictable, formulaic, and there are few people who don’t know how it’ll all end, or even how it’ll get...
Read More »Star Wars 5: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Movie Review
The first thing you notice about “The Empire Strikes Back” is just how sophisticated everything is. From the direction right down to the smallest props, “Empire” marks a giant leap in narrative as well...
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