Sha Po Lang
11/21/2005
Saw JASON X this weekend- forgettable fun, then again all those movies are…surprised to see Lexa Doig as the lead. Interesting to see a Filipino chick as the lead one of these kind of movies…especially since her race is of no issue in the story…I’ve heard a lot of Lexa but I’ve never bothered to watch her show Adromeda…
Review of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 @ Latinoreview.com…I guess Chow Yun Fat doesn’t really do anything in the movie…too bad…
Review of Sha Po Lang at : http://lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/spl.htm I gotta see this movie…bad ass martial arts/gritty cop film…very Hong Kong.. .quote: By the time the fighting rolls around, SPL has engendered so much audience goodwill that Chow Yun-Fat and the 12 Girls Band could come crashing through the roof on ziplines and the paying audience wouldn't bat an eye. As an ace crime thriller, SPL is more generic than genuinely enthralling, but like the great HK movies of the eighties (e.g. Tiger Cage, also starring Simon Yam and Donnie Yen), it's not the story, script, or acting that necessarily wins the day, but something that can only be called cinema panache. SPL has it in spades, such that its minor debits can be easily forgotten. Slow second act? Doesn't matter. The usual Donnie Yen preening for the camera? Forgotten. Borderline pointless symbolism? Not a factor. Actually, SPL is much better than most current wannabe crime thrillers, and possesses a satisfying, if not predictable series of Hong Kong Cinema "moments" that fans should cotton to pretty damn quick. For longtime fans, SPL is a gift.
Also out is Dragon Squad- another movie I wanna see but not as bad as SPL (the reviews for squad call it so-bad-it’s-good) this one is produced by Steven Segal- the man who wants to be Asian so bad he’s probably munching on dawg somewhere…plus Michael Biehn is in the movie!
Plus- Cuz Donnie Yen Kicks ASS!- Doonie Yen just finished choreographing fight scenes for Stormbreaker. Based on Anthony Horowits's best-seller, Stormbreaker tells the story 14 year old British teenager Alex Rider, who has been unwittingly trained by his uncle with the skills need to be a spy. When his uncle, whose true identity is a m16 agent, is killer, Rider is forced to take over his uncle's dangerous unfinished mission. Alex Pettyfer plays the lead character and the cast also includes Ewan McGregor (Star Wars prequel trilogy), Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Andy Serkis (Gollum of The Lord of the Rings and King Kong of King Kong). According Donnie Yen's fan site DonnieYen.net, Stormbreaker is the first of three deals he signed with Miramax, when Harvey Weinstein, who had known Donnie Yen for years, was still in charge of the Disney subsidiary. The North American rights of Stormbreaker now belongs to The Weinstein Company.
Saw JASON X this weekend- forgettable fun, then again all those movies are…surprised to see Lexa Doig as the lead. Interesting to see a Filipino chick as the lead one of these kind of movies…especially since her race is of no issue in the story…I’ve heard a lot of Lexa but I’ve never bothered to watch her show Adromeda…
Review of Pirates of the Caribbean 3 @ Latinoreview.com…I guess Chow Yun Fat doesn’t really do anything in the movie…too bad…
Review of Sha Po Lang at : http://lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/spl.htm I gotta see this movie…bad ass martial arts/gritty cop film…very Hong Kong.. .quote: By the time the fighting rolls around, SPL has engendered so much audience goodwill that Chow Yun-Fat and the 12 Girls Band could come crashing through the roof on ziplines and the paying audience wouldn't bat an eye. As an ace crime thriller, SPL is more generic than genuinely enthralling, but like the great HK movies of the eighties (e.g. Tiger Cage, also starring Simon Yam and Donnie Yen), it's not the story, script, or acting that necessarily wins the day, but something that can only be called cinema panache. SPL has it in spades, such that its minor debits can be easily forgotten. Slow second act? Doesn't matter. The usual Donnie Yen preening for the camera? Forgotten. Borderline pointless symbolism? Not a factor. Actually, SPL is much better than most current wannabe crime thrillers, and possesses a satisfying, if not predictable series of Hong Kong Cinema "moments" that fans should cotton to pretty damn quick. For longtime fans, SPL is a gift.
Also out is Dragon Squad- another movie I wanna see but not as bad as SPL (the reviews for squad call it so-bad-it’s-good) this one is produced by Steven Segal- the man who wants to be Asian so bad he’s probably munching on dawg somewhere…plus Michael Biehn is in the movie!
Plus- Cuz Donnie Yen Kicks ASS!- Doonie Yen just finished choreographing fight scenes for Stormbreaker. Based on Anthony Horowits's best-seller, Stormbreaker tells the story 14 year old British teenager Alex Rider, who has been unwittingly trained by his uncle with the skills need to be a spy. When his uncle, whose true identity is a m16 agent, is killer, Rider is forced to take over his uncle's dangerous unfinished mission. Alex Pettyfer plays the lead character and the cast also includes Ewan McGregor (Star Wars prequel trilogy), Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Andy Serkis (Gollum of The Lord of the Rings and King Kong of King Kong). According Donnie Yen's fan site DonnieYen.net, Stormbreaker is the first of three deals he signed with Miramax, when Harvey Weinstein, who had known Donnie Yen for years, was still in charge of the Disney subsidiary. The North American rights of Stormbreaker now belongs to The Weinstein Company.
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