Category: Martial Art
God of War 2017: A Vincent Zhao’s Martial-Arts Epic
During the 16th century. Japanese pirates proliferate along the Chinese coastline. In 1557, the pirates take over Cengang in Zhejiang. After months of futile advances….
Seven Swords Review: Donnie Yen become a Warrior with Great Sword Skills
Seven warriors come together to protect a village from a diabolical General. Leading into its release in the fall of 2005 Tsui Hark’s Seven Swords was one…
Shanghai Affairs Review: The Most Martial Arts Movie Directed by Donnie Yen
Third in the Donnie Yen canon is the most coherent, but most mundane. A reworking of Bruce Lee’s Big Boss, it’s easily the most accessible…
14 Blades 2010: Donnie Yen Finally Discovers the 15th Blade Put There By the Weinsteins
A proactive Chinese emperor develops his own secret service protection unit in the form of street orphans trained to be elite martial artists. The Jinyiwei…
Fatal Move 2008: A Hong Kong Action Flick Is Sometimes Enough To Entertain
Fatal Move is probably hotly-anticipated by international Hong Kong film fans, who may salivate when they hear of the film’s mixture of triad film trappings,…
Choy Lee Fut 2011: Sammo Hung Bring a Kung Fu Style With Powerful Hand Techniques
Choy Lay Fut (also spelled Choy Lee Fut and Choy Li Fut) is a southern style of kung fu that emphasizes long range striking along with continuous and…
Kung Fu League 2018: The Martial Arts Flick Have Four of China’s Super Star
Kung Fu League has a fun concept and isn’t without its moments but the ridiculous finale and ropey visuals will put many viewers off. it…
Swordsman 2: Jet Li’s martial arts with Mix of History, Spirituality
Action master Ching Siu-tung’s bonkers sequel boasts crackling kung fu choreography, prodigious violence. When ‘Swordsman’ proved to a surprise hit throughout global art-house cinemas. A…
Flash Point 2007: A Great Film in The Traditional Sense From Donnie Yen
“Flashpoint” is such a good thriller for so much of its length that it’s kind of a betrayal when the ending falls apart. Even as…
The Bride with White Hair 1993: Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin in Ronny Yu’s Film
There is cult and then there is “The Bride with White Hair”. Ronny Yu took the 1957 wuxia novel “Baifa Monu Zhuan”. Added some major…