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
Eagle Shooting Heroes (1993)	Ridiculous Chinese New Year's fluff	2020-07-25	Simon
Future Cops (1993)	Relentless lunacy	2020-07-18	Simon
The Kung Fu Master (1979)	A credible kung fu movie	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
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (2018)	Some creative fight choreography	2020-06-16	Simon
Challenge Of The Masters (1976)	Young Wong Fei-Hung	2020-06-01	Simon
Once Upon A Time In China III (1993)	The series falters in its 3rd outing	2020-05-31	Simon
Once Upon A Time In China II (1992)	One of the finest sequels ever made?	2020-03-27	Simon
Long Road To Gallantry (1984)	Fun but slight wu xia from Shaw Brothers' autumn years	2019-11-17	Simon
Girl's Blood (2014)	Largely inexplicable fusion of elements but somehow it works	2019-11-16	Simon
What Price Honesty? (1981)	Shallow and mediocre	2019-08-25	Simon
Soul Of The Sword (1978)	Beautiful production values and a tragic plot	2019-08-24	Simon
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword Of Destiny (2016)	Far from worthy of sharing a name with Ang Lee's film	2016-03-01	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
The Beheaded 1000 (1993)	Random mentalness	2015-04-25	Simon
The Dragon Missile (1976)	Fun romp in the Flying Guillotine style	2015-03-13	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
The Shaolin Plot (1977)	Largely unknown old school classic	2015-02-18	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
The Magnificent Butcher (1979)	Kung fu spectacular	2013-10-26	Simon
Fire Dragon (1994)	Decent wu xia in the early 90's tradition	2013-06-08	Simon
A Chinese Legend (1991)	Yet another knock-off of A CHINESE GHOST STORY	2013-05-03	Simon
Clash (2009)	Cheap and Cheesy	2013-04-08	Simon
The Grandmaster (2013)	Incoherent and overblown	2013-04-07	Simon
Tai Chi Hero (2012)	A fine continuation of the story	2013-04-03	Simon