What do you get when you mix a blaxploitation kung-fu movie and an Asian horror movie? You get Gang Wars, a weird combination of bad fight choreography, drug dealers and a monster movie all rolled up in to one.
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The story of Remo Williams is based on books from the 70s called “The Destroyer”, which went on become one of the longest men’s adventure series in history. He (formely Samuel Makin) is a New York cop who was recruited by a government agency that doesn’t exist. This agency faked his death, gave him a new name and forces him to hunt bad guys no one has ever heard of. So why not make a movie about it right? Well, I guess you could say the “Adventure” began and ended with this movie. There was a TV pilot made a few years later but like the movie it did poor and was never picked up. It’s a shame too because Remo, played by one of my B-movie favorites Fred Ward, is the kind of tough-talking government agent with a chip on his shoulder that people usually root for!
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It’s been a while since I’ve been able to review a Godfrey Ho movie. I’ve been building up my fortitude for almost a year since I watched Zombie vs. Ninja, and this time I’ve decided to tackle US Catman: Lethal Track, which is basically a combination of a movie about a government coup of a southeastern Asian country, which is more than likely Thailand, and an American who gets scratched by a radioactive cat that gives him super powers. Continue reading ‘US Catman: Lethal Track’
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Take a little bit of Kung Fu Hustle, mix in some Flight of the Conchords, and then redub English with more English and you get the 2002 Tongan Ninja. Jemaine Clement (“The Flight of the Conchords”) co-wrote this cheese-ball action/comedy/musical about a pair of young friends who crash land on the island of Tonga. While trying to save the 2 boys Sione’s father’s legs are eaten by fish and he dies. So the boys must stay on the island where they are trained by Master Nagasake in the martial arts.
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In 1974, Jim Kelly starred in the classic blaxploitation martial arts flick Black Belt Jones. Four years later, he returned to star in The Tattoo Connection (aka Black Belt Jones 2), which even though it goes by the Black Belt Jones moniker, it has absolutely nothing to do with the first film. In fact, in this one Kelly plays a character named Lucas, and he’s a former CIA agent who’s been hired by an insurance company to recover the North Pole Star Diamond, which was stolen upon it’s arrival in Hong Kong.
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