Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Sunday, October 11, 2015

The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)


































  A large shipment of gold becomes the point of interest for many dark figures in a small village in feudal China. A blacksmith with a caged lover, a British veteran soldier, a clan of assassins and a brothel owner fight over what is their own and what should have been their own...
  RZA's first attempt at directing certainly does not leave you disappointed. Do not expect any high-end directing or a re-invention of cinema art but do expect an entertaining 96 minutes of cult role-playing and vivid storytelling. Tarantino's little finger was dipped in this movie and you can see that too at some points. All in all, a modern low-fi with enough balls to become a cult classic somewhere in the next 50 years and surely a nice spending of your time.
  RZA plays the main character, the blacksmith with a hurt past. Russell Crowe brings up the game and plays the British veteran with a keen for young harlots and Lucy Liu is sure the own to provide him with such pleasures. Rick Yune arrives in the nick of time to save the day and Dave Bautista has to get in the way as always.
Must watch this : if you have been away from home for too long, put on this fucker and let it be your ticket back to who you used to be. Must accompany with something Chinese just for the cult of it, prefer a Kung-Pao chicken maybe!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258972/
Nobody takes away my Mi-Mi
Stay strong, Clarence
I-AM-IRONHAND

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)


































  Start buzzing noises are starting to be heard from under the ground in the American west coast. Military authorities will realize that a Chinese general has built underground tunnels running from China to U.S.A's most major military bases. He has put atomic bombs under each target and American soldiers now have to fight the enemy under the ground!
  Montgomery Tully's last film as a director is certainly a mixed-feelings one. On the one side you have the Sci-Fi characteristic that makes this film good from the start and on the other side you have the silly plot that's handled poorly! Tunnels that run underneath the Pacific Ocean and Chinese running throughout them? Whaaaaat? You must have been high!
  The acting follows the lead of the plot here! Silly and goofy but downright entertaining. Fearless American soldiers throw themselves at the enemy's front lines to save the country (Cold War much???) but their effort is amazingly funny and so is their performance. I still would rather watch this, though, than watch anything on T.V. Stay away from T.V kids, it is a dream killer!
Must watch this : with the bros on a random summer afternoon when you are too bored to go out. Make Tequila Sunrises, chill out and laugh your ass off.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/
I've seen things, man! Weird things!
Get me a dish of Chow Mein, quick!
What do you mean I do not look Chinese?