In a Nutshell. Mini reviews of movies old and new. No fuss. No spoilers. And often no sleep.
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Saturday, 18 May 2013

The Blacksheep Affair (1998)

aka: Another Meltdown

I didn't give a damn about anyone in this shite Hollywood-inspired action flick. There's a bad guy who thinks he’s a Japanese Jesus. He goes up against a Chinese cop who got himself reposted to an East European country called Lavernia (huh?) as punishment for doing a good job and saving lives. Yes, and no, I didn't make an error.
A brief reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre is used in an attempt to give the characters a tragic past. It didn't work. Nothing worked. All of the principal cast have much better films on their résumé.

1½ stretchers out of 5

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

2000 AD (2000)

aka Gong Yuan 2000 AD

There's some crap about Y2K bugs, espionage, murderous secret agents and then I nodded off (not literally). And the 'bleak vision of cyber-terrorism' that the blurb promised was a lie.
I don't like Hollywood in my HK films; I'd rather they play to their strengths instead of trying to ape the work of a soulless machine.

1½ Heavenly King fails out of 5