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Former Sun Yee On triad member Jimmy Tsui criticizes Lethal Weapon 4's unrealistic portrayal of one of the mafia characters. Lethal Weapon 4 is the lowest-rated film in the franchise, with a 52% score on Rotten Tomatoes and a lower box office performance than Lethal Weapon 3. Lethal Weapon 5 is in development with Mel Gibson taking over as director following Richard Donner's death.

A former mafia member breaks down a key fight in Mel Gibson's Lethal Weapon 4. Released in 1998, Lethal Weapon 4 is the fourth film in the action franchise that began with Lethal Weapon in 1987. The fourth installment features the return of LAPD officer Martin Riggs as he confronts Chinese mobsters this time. In addition to Gibson, Lethal Weapon 4 features a leading cast including Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock, Jet Li, Steve Kahan, Kim Chan, Darlene Love, Traci Wolfe, and Eddy Ko.

Filmed back-to-back with Hsu Hsia's “Crystal Hunt” (1991) with most of the cast returning except Sibelle Hu, right down to the similar thin plot and the Hong Kong and Thai locations. This time around, director Yip has everyone hunting for a computer chip instead of a golden crystal which starts off in Hong Kong and ends up in the tropical jungle of Thailand.

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In Hong Kong, arms dealer Tong Yeung (Shing Fui On) has a computer chip that contains the country's most advanced missile system. After his arrest, three American CIA agents, John (Mark Houghton), Peggy (Sharla Cheung Man) and Ann (Takajo Fujimi) arrive to take him back to the States. On their way to the airport, with the tag along of local Inspectors Sonny Ng (Carrie Ng) and Kwan (Eddie Kwan), Long Hair (Gordon Liu) and his ruthless gang ambush them.

1986 is a decisive year in the career of director John Woo as he would define his style with the two projects released that year. While “A Better Tomorrow” is highly regarded among cinephiles and seen as the first “definitive” John Woo-feature, “Heroes Shed No Tears”, the last project he would make for Golden Harvest, is just as important. The production would be another tumultuous affair resulting at Golden Harvest essentially shelving the film from distribution, with only a few copies made for countries such as South Korea. However, with Woo's following projects garnering international attention and given the recent 4k restoration, “Heroes Shed No Tears” is finally available in a truly deserving form, allowing filmlovers to experience a story which serves as the first “Heroic Bloodshed”-moment in Woo's career.

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To defeat the drug cartels in the region and to bring the druglords to justice,...

"How deep are you?" "As deep as it gets." Well Go USA has debuted a brand new trailer for the official re-release of this martial arts action thriller titled Beyond Redemption. This movie originally premiered in 2015 and open in Canadian theaters in 2016, and was eventually given a proper Blu-ray / VOD release in the US by Well Go. Beyond Redemption is the only feature directed by Bruce Fontaine, a martial arts expert & stuntman who spent years in Hong Kong. It stars a group of other stuntmen in most of the roles, including Brian Ho, in a generic but entertaining undercover story. This seems like one of these underground cult hit action films that has been lost in the mix, now finally getting a chance to shine again. A weary undercover cop must maintain his cover while saving the daughter of a notorious Triad Boss from becoming collateral damage in a sting operation gone wrong.

When the topic of cannibal films comes up in genre discussions, the likes of Ruggero Deodato’s seminal “Cannibal Holocaust” or Trey Parker’s “Cannibal: The Musical” are the first choices to come to mind. The outright brutality mixed with the pointed social commentary on the nature of mankind in “Holocaust” or the sheer over-the-top hilarity in dealing with such a dark subject matter of “Musical” is what keeps them in the forefront of the genre regardless of their preference for either the exploitation or entertainment side of the genre. Early into his career, the legendary Tsui Hark combined these two elements and created this masterpiece genre effort mixing graphic carnage with comedy and cannibals.

After making his way to a strange island, Agent 999 (Norman Chu) looks into reports that a criminal known as Rolodex (Melvin Wong) is hiding out there. Dealing with the quirky villagers led...

Lee Broughton returns with a critique of Hong Kong filmmaker Ronny Yu’s magical, mystical and martial arts-laden reimagining of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Relocating the Bard’s tale to ancient China results in our star-crossed lovers from warring clans being suitably redrawn: one is a super warrior while the other is a deadly assassin. Stylish cinematography, grand looking sets, stylised interludes, good fight choreography and an abundance of excellent wire work effects result in a very classy looking period action piece.

The Bride with White Hair

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1993 / Color / 2.35: 1 / 89 min. / Bak fat moh lui zyun / Street Date, 9 November 2020 / Available from Amazon UK / £22.99

Starring: Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Francis Ng, Elaine Lui, Yammie Lam, Joseph Tay, Eddy Ko, Fong Pau, Leila Tong.

Cinematography: Peter Pau

Film Editor: David Wu

Production Designer: Eddie Ma

Original Music: Richard Yuen

Written by David Wu, Jason Lam Kee-To,...

Hsiang Rong (David Chiang) is a young man whose life is put on hold after his father tragically dies in a truck accident. He has no choice but to look for work in order to keep his family alive. He seems angrier rather than sad, being caught in his current situation and starts to develop hatred and disrespect towards people around him. As it turns out, his best friend Gen Lai (Ti Lung) manages to secure him a job as a delivery boy in a small grocery shop but with less pay and long hours. On top of that, he has to put up with his mean boss who always scolds him and slaps him around, and this only builds up more frustrations and rage.

Moreover, Hsiang Rong is rather negligent himself; he sometimes skips work in-between deliveries to catch up with friends and he shoplifts. At times during his delivery runs,...

Even though he had gained quite a reputation for himself before, it was not until the release of titles such as “The Mission” that Johnnie To received major international attention. While the action genre as well as the image of the killer is perhaps forever linked to the name of John Woo, over the course of his career, To has created his very own interpretation of this figure, his existence in the shadows of society and his ambivalent nature. As the director reflects in his career in an interview with “The Skinny”, he admits that making an action film was not an easy undertaking, given the lack of investors at the end of the 90s. At the same time, and although he ran out of money, he also admits there was a sense of freedom with a project such as this, an idea to make something aware of its roots but also quite unique.

In this explosive precursor to his breakout film A Better Tomorrow, director John Woo demonstrates the genesis of his trademark style of hyperkinetic action and violence in Heroes Shed No Tears. The action movie that he identifies as his "first real film" broke a string of low-budget slapstick farces, and built the foundation for his over-the-top genre films that would follow.

Hong Kong action veteran Eddie Ko stars as soldier-of-fortune Chan Chung, the leader of an elite Chinese commando force enlisted by the Thai government to capture General Samton, a powerful drug lord from the Golden Triangle. After a successful raid on the general's headquarters, the mercenaries cross into Vietnam and encounter a barbaric colonel (Lam Ching Ying), who is determined to stop them at any cost. Now pursued by both Samton's henchmen and the colonel's troops, the heroes flee for the border of Thailand, outmanned and outgunned by their enemies.

Brian De Palma is set to direct the first film from Aurora Alliance Films, a joint venture between Arclight Films and Chinese distributor Huace Media Group.

Action thriller Lights Out will follow a blind Chinese girl who gets caught unknowingly in a plot to expose a top-secret assassination program.

The girl, Lin Shen, raises unsettling questions about government secrecy and what can and can.t be seen.

The director of Scarface, The Untouchables and Carlito.s Way, Palma.s last screen credits according to IMDb.com were Passion (2012), Redacted (2007) and The Black Dahlia (2006).

He was awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre glory to the filmmaker award at this year.s Venice Film Festival where Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow.s documentary De Palma, which chronicled his four decades career, premiered.

Casting is underway for Lights Out, with a high-profile Chinese actress in the frame to play the lead.

Ying Ye, managing director of Aurora Alliance Films,...

Brian De Palma's headed to China! I am hoping that 2016 is a year of celebration for De Palma. After all, Noah Baumbach's documentary "De Palma," which played to adoring festival audiences this year, will be getting a theatrical release next year, and now it appears that there's a chance we'll get an actual new film from the filmmaker, and I'm going to preemptively cross all of my fingers hoping that it's a return to form for him. While I thought his last film "Passion" was strikingly made in places, it's been almost twenty years since the last film he made that's actually a complete movie, and that was "Mission: Impossible," where he was a (very stylish) gun for hire. I think "Snake Eyes" has some fun stuff in it, and it's certainly a De Palma film, visually speaking. There are plenty of visual flourishes that remind us just...

Brian De Palma, the legendary director known for gangster movies like "Scarface," "The Untouchables" and "Carlito's Way," is set to return to the big screen with the action-thriller "Lights Out." The filmmaker was recently awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 2015 Venice Film Festival. He's also the subject of a new documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, which A24 will release theatrically next year. "Lights Out" tells the story of Lin Shen, a blind Chinese girl who gets caught up in a conspiracy to expose a top-secret assassination program. The movie will be the first joint venture of Arclight Films and Huace Media under the name Aurora Alliance Films. The plot synopsis sits well with the mission De Palma has taken in the past few years. Once a filmmaker that some critics referred to as a "misogynist," he's now trying to skew his perspective to align more with feminist agendas.

'The Martian' with Matt Damon: Box office record? 'The Martian' fights 'Gravity' for October box office record; actual winner, however, is an Earthbound comedy Released by 20th Century Fox, Ridley Scott's extremely well-received The Martian, starring Matt Damon in the title role as a U.S. astronaut fighting for his life after being left behind all alone on Mars, opened with an estimated $18 million on Friday, Sept. 30, '15, at 3,831 North American theaters, about two thirds of which in 3D. Bear in mind that the Friday estimate includes $2.5 million from Thursday evening and midnight screenings. Directed by eventual Academy Award winner Alfonso Cuarón, Warner Bros.' Gravity, another extremely well-received space movie about a pioneering American fearlessly kicking death's ass while stranded in a – literally – alien realm, collected $17.48 million over the same weekend back in 2013. Sandra Bullock starred as the lost-in-space astronaut and middle-American Mom struggling to...

'The Martian' movie: Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars. 'The Martian' movie review: Ridley Scott still has 'greatness left in him' The Martian is the story of a man in trouble and in desperate need of saving. Brilliant and resourceful, he must marshal all of his creative powers to solve a series of difficult problems or all is lost. That man is Ridley Scott. The Oscar-nominated British director has been mired in a late-career slump after a run of middling films that only served to dent his legacy, namely The Counselor, Prometheus, and Exodus: Gods and Kings. Scott, at the Omg age of 77, can still put together a movie, but fans have been wondering if he had any greatness left in him. The Martian answers that question with a pleasantly enthusiastic yes. That enthusiasm comes tempered as we wonder if Scott would have approached The Martian in the...

"Out from the blackness comes something we thought we might never see again: a decent Ridley Scott movie." The announcement comes from the Guardian's Henry Barnes and more than a few reviewers agree with him. Critics are praising Drew Goddard's screenplay, based on the novel by Andy Weir, Dariusz Wolski's 3D cinematography, Matt Damon's lead performance and the diversity of the cast: Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mackenzie Davis, Benedict Wong, Donald Glover and Eddy Ko. We've also got the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...

"Out from the blackness comes something we thought we might never see again: a decent Ridley Scott movie." The announcement comes from the Guardian's Henry Barnes and more than a few reviewers agree with him. Critics are praising Drew Goddard's screenplay, based on the novel by Andy Weir, Dariusz Wolski's 3D cinematography, Matt Damon's lead performance and the diversity of the cast: Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels, Michael Pena, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mackenzie Davis, Benedict Wong, Donald Glover and Eddy Ko. We've also got the trailer and a clip. » - David Hudson...

This is a run down of my Top 40 kung fu movies of the 1970′s. There were so many great films in this era, that i just hope i do this list some justice. The movies chosen are just my personal choice, i understand others might have different views.

Any of the movies that make the Top 40 list must have something special to make it in the first place. So i hope you enjoy my Top 40 Kung Fu movies.

30:Iron Fisted Monk

Starring: Sammo Hung, Fung Hak On, Chan Sing, James Tien

The Husker has a heart of gold although he is full of tricks. When he is a trainee at Shaolin Temple, he cuts so many corners and devises so many labor-saving ploys that he earns the open wrath and secret admiration of his holy elders. Monk Shan, the famous kung fu master, never lets his buddhist association stand in the way of wining,...

One of the the most prolific directors in Hong Kong, let alone the world, Johnnie To is a filmmaker who I’m surprised has never been asked to join the Criterion Collection with any number of his films. Until now, perhaps. Not only did IFC Films pick up his critically acclaimed film Vengeance (which was put out by Mpi Home Video) but they also recently asked him what his 10 favorite Criterion films were, which you can see right here. He’s very short and sweet as to why he loves these films, but while perusing the list, one can see his influence and how he crafts his films.

So we here at the Criterion Cast like to play guessing games and are wishful thinkers, so here’s a top 10 Johnnie To films that we wish could enter the Criterion Collection. Remember, a lot of hands are on these films, in...

The government of Thailand hires a squad of immigrant Chinese mercenaries to infiltrate the notorious golden triangle and capture a drug baron. If they can achieve this mission the squad will receive a nice fat pay check and green cards to emigrate to the Us. How ever the Drug lord in question General Samton has a tight grip on the area and a large force of armed troops to back him up. Can a five man team really get in, capture the general and make it back alive to claim the reward?

After trying his hand at several genres’ including comedy, drama and classic Martial arts director John Woo hit open the sub-genre that would make him famous in 1986. The year would see the release of Heroes Shed no tears (maybe a reissue from '83 I'm not sure) and A better tomorrow. It was these two films that would set...