Reviewed by gfanikf1

The Shaw Brothers studio is not well known for its modern day action films with the exception of this film and certain others such as Police Force and the Chinatown Kid among others.

This film tells the tale of group of former soldiers who are hired to kill a rebel leader in revenge for the leaders murder of a prominent HK tycoon. However, all is not as it seems in this twisted tale. It would be a shame to spoil this film so I wont discuss the plot any further.

The cast however is... More amazing this film contains Ti Lung, Johnny Wang, Wong Yue, Chan Wei Man and Lo Leih (sporting an Afro if I remeber correctly). This and some very exciting action scenes and fiights (more like a basher than shapes) contribute to an excellent and a time dark predecessor to the Heroic Bloodshed genre.Less
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Reviewed by gfanikf1

This is a very rare Chen Singh punch an block film that was until work done by Flashlegs Pete Jr. unavailable in uncut form for the vast majority of the world. He has through his time consuming work finally created an uncut version of this picture that puts the horribly cut Ground Zero release to shame. It should be noted that some scenes are in Italian but this is not the case for the majority of the footage and besides it is far better to have some dialogue in Italian than to have nothing at a... Morell.

Some excellent fights in this film helped make a great basher to watch just by itself, despite a typical plot of the new guy running into to trouble with the local toughs and the bloodshed that ensues. What really sets it appart from others in the genre is the extreme blood letting in the protracted final fights. Real gore effects are used as if the film was a slasher flick and blood flies like it was going out of style.

Highly recommend for its rare nature and for extreme hardcore violent ending makes Brutal Boxer an easy choice to select. Less
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Reviewed by gfanikf1

Any review of this film should be prefaced by the fact that Wong Jing and Jackie Chan hate each other, stemming from major issues that arose during the filming of City Hunter. Jackie even tried to get Wong fired during the film

Wong Jing got his revenge on Jackie in this Corey Yuen cherographed action spectacular. Jet Li plays a former army officer who leaves his commision in the army after failing to save his wife and child from an attack by a mad bomber and his army. He now works for Fr... Moreankie (played very hillariously by Jackey Cheung) who is a drunk, skirt chaser, and no longer does his own stunts for which is his famed for. Wong Jing basically did everything short of just naming the character Jackie and taking every rumour about him and bringing it to life. Jet Li soon finds himself trying to protect his boss and hostages after the mad bomber who killed his family takes a gala party of the Russian Czars jewelry hostage in order to steal them.

This film is extremly indebted to Die Hard (the two films Chinese titles were virtual identical) yet has a great sense of insanity that makes the film quite winning sucj as the driving around of a car in the middle of a hotel gunbattle.Wu Ma has a great supporting role as Frankies father.
Great action and comedy make this film a great deal of fun to all but to super sensitive Jackie Chan fans.Less
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