Martial Arts 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
The Blood Brothers (1973)	The best Chang Cheh I've seen so far	2003-03-29	Simon
Death Duel (1977)	Lesser Chor Yuen/Gu Long work	2003-03-29	Simon
Knock Off (1998)	Good silly fun	2003-03-29	Simon
By Hook Or By Crook (1980)	somewhat entertaining	2003-03-18	Simon
Operation Scorpio (1990)	Good	2003-03-08	Simon
The Valiant Ones (1975)	More innovative action scenes from the master	2003-03-07	Simon
The Enigmatic Case (1980)	Lost Gem	2003-03-07	Simon
Dragon From Russia (1990)	medium-level classic	2003-03-01	Simon
Cradle 2 The Grave (2003)	Pretty poor	2003-02-28	Simon
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)	Pretty Good	2003-02-24	Simon
Heroes Two (1974)	Groundbreaking, apparently	2003-02-24	Simon
To Kill With Intrigue (1977)	Blah	2003-02-23	Simon
Clans Of Intrigue (1977)	Wonderfully convoluted wu xia murder mystery	2003-02-16	Simon
Holy Robe Of Shaolin Temple (1985)	Not bad	2003-01-31	Simon
Fong Sai Yuk (1993)	A must see HK movie	2003-01-31	Simon
Black Mask 2 (2002)	Utter junk	2003-01-26	Simon
Come Drink With Me (1966)	The one that started it all	2003-01-11	Simon
Killer Clans (1976)	Difficult to follow but enjoyable	2003-01-07	Simon
The Heroic Ones (1970)	Probably seemed better at the time than it does now	2003-01-05	Simon
Equilibrium (2002)	Script bad, action good	2002-12-07	Simon
A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)	Seminal work of sublime beauty	2002-12-01	Simon
Once Upon A Time In China (1991)	One of the best martial arts films ever made	2002-12-01	Simon
Yes, Madam! (1985)	Super-cheesy	2002-12-01	Simon
The Transporter (2002)	Good fun	2002-10-25	Simon
Kiss Of The Dragon (2001)	Talent gone to waste	2002-10-13	Simon
So Close (2002)	Cool action scenes if nothing else	2002-09-26	Simon
Snake Deadly Act (1980)	Quite decent	2002-08-31	Simon
Descendant Of Wing Chun (1978)	Convoluted	2002-08-17	Simon
Blonde Fury (1989)	Pure action movie	2002-07-22	Simon
Kung Fu Scholar (1994)	Loses a lot in the translation	2002-06-27	Simon