http://www.beyondhollywood.com/sha-po-lang-aka-killzone-2005-movie-review/ Hollywood, Indie, Asian, Foreign, Horror, and Genre Movie Reviews and News Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:52:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/sha-po-lang-aka-killzone-2005-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-52317 jamie Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:12:11 +0000 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=222#comment-52317 For my money, this is the best H.K. action movie since John Woo and Chow Yung Fat worked together. It's got that go-for-broke melodramatic chivalry stuff that can make action films emotionally moving, it's lean and tense (you start to dread some of the upcoming action scenes because you know that the outcomes are going to be pretty rough and pretty sad), and it has some of the best movie fighting since Jackie and Sammo's great films of the eighties. And it's one of the best produced H.K. action movies I've ever seen. The camerawork and art direction are really great, giving the movie a nice balance between comic book stylization and realistic grit. It's essentially a cross between a really great Yakuza movie and a really great kung fu movie. For my money, this is the best H.K. action movie since John Woo and Chow Yung Fat worked together. It’s got that go-for-broke melodramatic chivalry stuff that can make action films emotionally moving, it’s lean and tense (you start to dread some of the upcoming action scenes because you know that the outcomes are going to be pretty rough and pretty sad), and it has some of the best movie fighting since Jackie and Sammo’s great films of the eighties. And it’s one of the best produced H.K. action movies I’ve ever seen. The camerawork and art direction are really great, giving the movie a nice balance between comic book stylization and realistic grit. It’s essentially a cross between a really great Yakuza movie and a really great kung fu movie.

]]> http://www.beyondhollywood.com/sha-po-lang-aka-killzone-2005-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-37762 Freelance Designer » SPL aka Killzone, review by Nix Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:18:11 +0000 http://www.beyondhollywood.com/?p=222#comment-37762 [...] as a throwback to the days of gritty, hardcore Hong Kong action films, “Sha Po Lang” (currently going by the non-descriptive international title of “SPL”) [...] [...] as a throwback to the days of gritty, hardcore Hong Kong action films, “Sha Po Lang” (currently going by the non-descriptive international title of “SPL”) [...]

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