Reviews from Hong Kong

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
Big Bad Sis (1976)	Better than Big Brother Cheng	2006-05-21	Simon
Man Of Iron (1972)	Solid Chen Kuan-Tai vehicle	2006-05-06	Simon
Election (2005)	Enigmatic	2006-01-18	Simon
Sworn Brothers (1987)	contrived and over-melodramatic	2006-01-16	Simon
Colour Of The Truth (2003)	Excellent crime thriller	2006-01-08	Simon
A Hero Never Dies (1998)	A masterful work from Johnnie To	2006-01-08	Simon
Colour Of The Loyalty (2005)	Three Colours Abstract?	2005-07-31	Simon
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)	a love song to kung fu films	2005-02-25	Simon
Jiang Hu (2004)	Interesting, if somewhat compromised	2004-07-14	Simon
One Nite In Mongkok (2004)	Skillfully woven tale	2004-06-12	Simon
Enter The Phoenix (2004)	Gay Triad Comedy with wacky action = a winner	2004-04-15	Simon
Chinatown Kid (1977)	Great piece of 70's action	2004-02-26	Simon
Big Brother Cheng (1975)	Sequel to The Teahouse	2004-01-19	Simon
Time And Tide (2000)	Classic film	2003-05-13	Simon
Once Upon A Time In Triad Society 2 (1996)	The thinking man's triad series	2003-03-07	Simon
The Teahouse (1974)	An angry movie	2003-01-18	Simon
Return Engagement (1990)	Not bad	2002-05-01	Simon
Runaway (2001)	Dante Lam returns to less conventional territory	2002-03-21	Simon
Tian Di (1994)	It's not that bad, cynics!	2002-03-10	Simon
Lung Fung Restaurant (1990)	Unfocussed and kind of boring	2002-03-10	Simon
Ghostly Bus (1995)	Marvellous low budget gem	2002-03-10	Simon
The Replacement Suspects (2001)	Clunker from an otherwise promising director	2002-03-06	Simon
Where A Good Man Goes (1999)	Under-rated and misunderstood	2002-03-04	Simon
Gunmen (1988)	Not a great example of film-making	2002-02-27	Simon
Triad Story (1990)	Pretty enjoyable	2002-02-03	Simon
Killing End (2001)	Poor movie, but Loletta Lee is worth watching	2002-01-17	Simon
The Godfather's Daughter Mafia Blues (1991)	Bona fide hidden gem	2002-01-12	Simon
The Blood Rules (2000)	Mak's debut shows promise, but he hadn't quite developed it fully	2001-12-24	Simon
Cop On A Mission (2001)	Smart and fresh take on a favourite genre	2001-12-22	Simon
Shanghai Grand (1996)	Poor attempt to convert a popular series into a movie	2001-12-20	Simon