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 Lady Hermit (1971)	Enjoyable female-led wuxia	2022-12-11	Simon
Project A (1983)	A Hong Kong cinema landmark	2022-12-08	Simon
New Kung Fu Cult Master (2022)	New but not necessarily improved	2022-12-06	Simon
The Five Venoms (1978)	...read review...	2022-11-21	Simon
Drive (1997)	A joy to watch	2022-11-12	Simon
Holy Virgin Versus The Evil Dead (1991)	One of the all-time great film titles!	2022-10-26	Simon
Angel Terminators 2 (1993)	Girls With Guns And Attitude	2022-09-03	Simon
Enter the Fat Dragon (2020)	A sweet, fun film with a big heart and excellent fight scenes.	2022-08-13	Simon
The Brink (2017)	Lazy writing but gorgeous visuals	2022-08-12	Simon
The Killer Meteors (1976)	Reasonably entertaining fluff	2022-08-09	Simon
The Assassin (1967)	Impressive	2022-08-07	Simon
The Princess (2022)	Are Disney princesses always this hardcore?	2022-07-31	Simon
The Deadly Knives (1972)	Decent action makes up for a recycled story	2022-07-10	Simon
Heroes Of The East (1978)	Amongst the greatest kung fu films ever made	2022-07-04	Simon
The Twin Swords (1965)	Basically Temple Of The Red Lotus Part 2	2022-06-21	Simon
Temple Of The Red Lotus (1965)	Not quite as impressive as I remembered, but still pretty cool	2022-06-19	Simon
Boxer From Shantung (1972)	Strong Chen Kuan-Tai vehicle	2022-05-24	Simon
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)	Better than expected	2022-05-16	Simon
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)	This was pretty good, huh?	2022-05-11	Simon
My Wife Is A Gangster (2001)	Doesn't live up to my memory of it	2022-04-23	Simon
Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986)	Expected more from this collaboration	2022-04-03	Simon
The Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)	One of the more enjoyable Venoms films	2022-02-27	Simon
Fistful of Vengeance (2022)	Pretty tasteless and generic	2022-02-17	Simon
Finger Of Doom (1972)	Ahead of its time	2022-02-06	Simon
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)	Fine, if a little insubstantial	2022-01-22	Simon
The Evil Karate (1971)	A fun low budget wuxia	2022-01-22	Simon
Forbidden City Cop (1996)	One of the best Stephen Chiau films of the 1990's	2021-12-12	Simon
Police Story 3 - Supercop (1992)	Shoehorned into the franchise but earns its place	2021-12-11	Simon
Once Upon A Time In China IV (1993)	The low point of the series	2021-12-04	Simon
Jailbreak (2017)	Cambodia's Raid-a-like takes no prisoners	2021-12-04	Simon