No comments about Selected Traditional Yang-style Taijiquan.

2 comments about Showdown.

1. I'll start by saying that this is basically a knock off of the successful 80's smash "Karate Kid" (Pat Morita, Ralph Machio). However I found myself having a little more sympathy for the main actor (kid) in this one. Billy blanks is no Harrison Ford but, considering his backround, doesn't do all that bad. The main dissapointments(or hillariously funny aspects, depending on your perspective) were the supporting characters. The girlfriend was shallow, the antogonist kid - totally unthreatening, and the main villain-Lee so hastily put togather you'd swear only half his makeup was on. Most of the supporting characters have about the same artistic license and depth as the cast of any of Troma productions' films. Rent before you buy.



2. A HIGH SCHOOL JANITOR [BILLY BLANKS] TEACHES A BULLIED HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT MARTIAL ARTS LESSONS. YET ANOTHER KARATE KID RIP-OFF. THIS ONE, AIN'T REALLY THAT BAD. IT GETS A LITTLE CORNY FROM TIME TO TIME, BUT THE FIGHTS MAKE UP FOR THE BORING MOMENTS OF THE MOVIE. I SERIOUSLY WONDER WHY BILLY BLANKS OFTEN DOESN'T DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN TAE BO TAPES.

No comments about Goju Ryu Karate Technical Series Vol 4.

1 comments about Old Eight Palms of Bagua Zhang.

1. I received my product (which was amazing) with in just a few short days, as promised.

No comments about Tim O'Connor's Strength and Conditioning for Combat SportsTim O'Connor's Strength and Conditioning for Combat Sports.

2 comments about Tai-chi for Seniors.

1. Very disappointing. Very poor image quality, it looks like a pirate copy and not a very good one! Sound is also very poor quality and the exercises are basically the same four movement viewed from different angles.



2. He is very difficult to understand-it would have been nice if they would have dubbed it in English. His exercises are a little more difficult to do than the other Tai Chi for Seniors I ordered. Will use this one when I get more proficient with the easier tape.

1 comments about Angel Force.

1. In 'Angel Force', Ah Mun(Moon Lee Choi Fung) portrays an HK cop who travels, with some black ops commandos, to Thailand to rescue a gweilo(Foreigner)bureaucrat from a drug kingpin. 'Angel Force' is flawed, forgettable, and nothing special. Also, too many of the music cues in the film sound like porno music. The jungle warfare scenes make this film feel like a poor man's Rambo. However, its decent performances and solid action(staged by Yuen Bun) help the film pack a good punch. Also, I, personally, enjoy watching the sweet, petite Moon Lee shooting and beating the crap out of men twice, or triple, her size. Well, on screen, at least. Now, on to World Video's DVD. The World Video DVD is pretty lackluster(as with most World Video DVD's): the 1:85 letterbox format is shown in a 1:33 full screen version, there's no theatrical trailer, no restoration, no subtitles, and a lame collection of video spots with cheesy techno music over them, etc. In the DVD's favor, it's watchable in Cantonese, Mandarin, or English(although, they're all labeled "German" for some odd reason), and the budget price is nice. 'Angel Force' may not appeal to all, but action junkies may enjoy it.

5 comments about Shadow: Dead Riot: Unrated Collector's Edition.

1. One would think that Fangoria editor Michael Gingold would have seen enough crappy horror movies to know when he was contributing to the problem, but Shadow: Dead Riot stands as testament to the opposite. It's a good thing that a healthy fraction of the horror fan population seems to relish any movie with bare breasts, gore, and heavy metal tunes, because those are the only people who will give this picture's investors a return on their money.
   
   Skip this flick and go with one of the half-dozen GOOD zombie movies released in the last ten years: 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, something else besides this.



2. How could director Derek Wan have possibly screwed this one up?
   
   I mean, yes, it was almost certainly going to be campy, mixing in zombies with pretty girls behind bars, but campy is supposed to be fun, isn't it? This movie is NOT fun. It's stupid and uninteresting.
   
   Margaret Baker was very well cast as a predatory lesbian guard who sets her sights on pretty female inmates like Misty Mundae and Ruby Larocca. But aside from some brief conversation, nothing ever happens! There's not one halfway decent girls-molesting-other-girls scene in this entire film! Obviously the decision was made to get right to the stupid zombies instead.
   
   What a disappointing dud!



3. I really think that this was made INTENTIONALLY bad! It must fall under the category of "so bad its good." A title bestowed upon classic B movie cheesey ragu sauce like "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Ok so this is no Plan 9 but anything with zombies and Tony todd in the same sentence should be at least DECENT?? NOT SO! Despite having the usually good Tony Todd (Candyman, Night of the living dead remake ) and Tony Leung ( martial arts stunman to Bruce Lee and expert martial arts master hissdamnself ) this is pretty terrible. It is more of an exploitation horror flick, a very cheesy one at that, that has plenty of girl on girl sex and gore. The acting is terrible, and even the stunts are pretty low rate. This is surprising since Tony Leung is a master of the form. The budget they had making this must have been next to nothing. Besides some cool lesbian soft core and a few deent kicks and punches, this is the worst horror movie I've seen in awhile! It incorporates zombies into the already really corny mix of occult and soft core porn. I think this had zombies solely because of Tony Todd, a "zombie flick" alumnus. Better than "Day of the Dead 2" but will this go down in the annals of a "Candyman" or "Night of the Living Dead?" Uhhhh, no! the placement of zombies is just a ploy to get Romero fans and general fans of horror to watch this. It comes off more as reason to touch oneself with ya frat buddies! Really bad and only if you MUST go so low at least absorb the cheese factor for all its worth.



4. The movie starts with a guy called the Shadow Killer (played by The Candyman) being executed, except something goes wrong and blood starts coming out of a bible and the guards end up having to kill all of the prisoners after they are posessed. 20 years later we meet a woman entering the jail. She likes to be called Solitaire because she doesn't play well with others. The prison is now a womens prison. Solitaire finds out that this demon Shadow is still around. We are shown some flashbacks to help explain Shadow and what happened on that day he was executed. It turns out that Shadow is Solitaire's father and Shadow killed her mother. When Shadow gets resurrected, it is on. All of the former inmates also come back to life and the women have to work together to stop them.
   
   There is tons of fun stuff in this movie. Martial arts, a killer baby, and tons of gore, but the movie just didn't work for me. It is a way to kill 90 minutes I guess. I like scary movies, but this didn't do anything for me. It is just mindless gore.
   
   As far as the action goes, there is some good stunt work, but a lot of the stunt doubling is horrible, especially Solitaire's double.
   
   For a low budget movie I guess this is decent.
   
   1.5/5



5. I bought it only because (Candy Man) was in it and I thought it would be a great movie. Boy was I wrong. There is plenty of pretty women in it, but the acting......I could have been in this movie and won an oscar. Even when the "heads" was rolling off the bodies it looked really fake. WWE does a better way of acting then these people. Don't waste you money and wait until it comes on the SciFi channel, then change the channel to the something else.

1 comments about Shaolin Iron Fist Collection - Shaolin vs. Manchu.

1. man if i could give no stars i would this movie is weak, wack, garbage, abysmal, everything all in one sentence. i caught this for [...] and i see why. i feel i wasted my money on this ands i dont care if it is cheap. you pay good money for movies that make you say ooo! and ahhhhhhh! and they come up with this debacle.
   
   1st of all the fight scenes get a -10 i mean there is none that standout and they all bored me. this would get a decent review if it was a wrestling flick. i mean hell the practice and sommersault sequences was pretty dope but the fighting is just god awful and the storyline was even good. so as read this review you gone ask whats the problem? like i said the fighting was nothing close to being fair and they were slow for a flick made in back 85'. so please for your own sake save your money and dont cop this one.

2 comments about Snake in Eagle's Shadow 2.

1. Using a few minutes of footage from Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, someone tried to make this seem like a sequel. The original name of this movie is 'Snaky Knife Fight Against Mantis', and it is a decent Don Wong Tao flick. There are a couple of scenes where they show Jackie Chan fighting and I guess this is supposed to link the 2 movies together. Wong Tao is supposed to be playing Jackie, but the best thing to do is to just ignore the Jackie footage when it comes on. The story is already horribly done, and the spliced in footage doesn't help.
   
   The story is very badly done, and not even worth going over. This is one of the rare times that I will not talk about the story at all. It is just pure nonsense, and the editing is some of the worst I have ever seen. The director obviously didn't care about the story. I can forgive a movie for having a bad story as long as it moves along at a good pace and has good fight scenes. The movie is boring, but luckily the fights scenes are really good, and there are plenty of them. The first fight has Alan Chui and some other guy going up against Wong Tao and Carter Wong. If you don't know who Alan Chui is, then I highly recommend checking him out in movies like Seven Grandmasters and Shaolin Temple Against Lama. He fills up the screen with uncountable movements and is maybe the fanciest screen fighter of all time. It's a shame he only gets about 2 minutes of action. Lung Fei (Kung Pow! Enter the Fist and Death Duel of the Mantis) shows up next, and this is THE best fighting performance I have ever seen from him, which is saying quite a lot since he has been in well over a hundred movies. I never knew he had moves like this.
   
   If you are not a big kung fu fan, this movie will definitely test your patience. So if you end up just fast forwarding to the fight scenes, make sure you at least watch these- Carter Wong vs. Lung Fei, Chen Sing vs Wong Tao (they fight twice) and Lung Fei vs. Wong Tao (they also fight twice). These fights are worth a watch for any fu fan.
   
   This is a hard movie to rate. The story is about as bad as it gets, but some of the fights are sublime. Don Wong Tao is on fire. I admit that I fast forwarded 20 minutes or so, but if you are a fan of Wong Tao or Lung Fei, you can't pass this one up.
   
   2.5/5
   
   Picture quality on the Xenon DVD isn't too bad, and the Enlgish dubbing is funny at times. Sound is fine.



2. the film is fake on the picture you see jacki chan but not in the film.
   the fighting is a realy bad comparing to the part1.
   waste of money and time