Action Reviews

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
Future Cops (1993)	Relentless lunacy	2020-07-18	Simon
Shanghai Blues (1984)	Zany comedy with a human heart	2020-07-13	Simon
Violent Cop (1989)	A landmark in Japanese cinema	2020-07-11	Simon
Arahan (2004)	Urban martial arts action	2020-07-04	Simon
The Gambling Ghost (1991)	Three times the Sammo fun!	2020-07-02	Simon
Eastern Condors (1987)	Sammo Hung goes to war	2020-06-29	Simon
The Virgin Psychics (2015)	It's outrageous	2020-06-25	Simon
God Of Gamblers III : Back To Shanghai (1991)	Almost no gambling, but lots of silly comedy	2020-06-21	Simon
My Sassy Girl (2001)	The most romantic movie of all time?	2020-06-19	Simon
Extraction (2020)	An action masterclass	2020-06-17	Simon
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (2018)	Some creative fight choreography	2020-06-16	Simon
Killer's Nocturne (1987)	Chin Siu-Ho fights a kangaroo	2020-06-14	Simon
Killers (2014)	A Tale Of Two Killers	2020-06-12	Simon
Tokyo Fist (1995)	Peak Shinya Tsukamoto	2020-05-23	Simon
Raivu (2014)	Something went horribly wrong here	2020-05-10	Simon
Meatball Machine (2005)	Budget constrained but imaginative	2020-05-10	Simon
Meatball Machine: Kodoku (2017)	One of the great works of cinema	2020-05-10	Simon
S Storm (2016)	...read review...	2020-04-22	Simon
Z Storm (2014)	Wherever there is corruption... there is the ICAC	2020-03-05	Simon
The Bullet Vanishes (2012)	Sherlock Holmes in Tiancheng?	2020-02-23	Simon
Girl's Blood (2014)	Largely inexplicable fusion of elements but somehow it works	2019-11-16	Simon
Pedicab Driver (1989)	Legendary Sammo film finally gets a DVD release	2016-02-20	Simon
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)	Just as enjoyable and well made as the first film	2016-01-31	Simon
Kung Fu Jungle (2014)	Martial arts are for killing	2015-03-11	Simon
Shanghai 13 (1984)	Chang Cheh goes indie	2015-02-18	Simon
Assault On Wall Street (2013)	The redemption of Uwe Boll	2014-12-27	Simon
The Four (2012)	Top drawer wu xia extravaganza	2014-10-19	Simon
Metro Manila (2013)	Poverty and corruption	2014-10-19	Simon
Tom Yum Goong 2 (2013)	Tony Jaa shows he can still kick ass	2014-08-01	Simon
Iceman 3D (2013)	Not as good as the original	2014-07-31	Simon