Action Movies

The Bridge On The River Kwai

2008-02-10T13:45:00.000-08:00

The Bridge on the River Kwai is an Academy Award-winning 1957 World War II film based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942-43 for its historical setting. It was directed by David Lean and stars Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins and William Holden.

In 1997, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry.

Synopsis

Two prisoners of war are burying a corpse in the graveyard of a Japanese World War II prison camp in southern Burma. One, American Navy Commander Shears (William Holden), routinely bribes guards to ensure he gets sick duty, which allows him to avoid hard labour. A large contingent of British prisoners' arrives, marching in defiantly whistling the Colonel Bogey March under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness).

The camp commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), addresses them, informing them of his rules. He insists that all prisoners, regardless of rank, will work on the construction of a bridge over the Kwai River as part of a railroad that will link all Burma.

The next morning, when Saito orders everyone to work, Nicholson commands his officers to stand fast. He points out that the Geneva Conventions state that captured officers are exempt from manual labour. Saito is infuriated and backhands Nicholson in the face, but the latter refuses to back down, even after Saito has a machine gun set up. Saito is dissuaded from shooting by Major Clipton (James Donald), the medical officer; instead, the Japanese commander leaves Nicholson and his officers standing in the intense heat. As the day wears on, one of them collapses, but Nicholson and the rest are still standing defiantly at attention when the men return from the day's work. After Colonel Nicholson is beaten in Saito's quarters, the British officers are sent into a punishment cage and Nicholson into his own box for solitary confinement.

When Clipton requests to be allowed to check the officers, Saito agrees on the condition that Clipton persuade Nicholson to change his mind. Nicholson, however, refuses to budge, saying "if we give in now there'll be no end to it." In the meantime, construction falls far behind schedule, due in part to many "accidents" arranged by the British.

Saito has a deadline; if he should fail to meet it, it would bring him great shame and oblige him to commit seppuku (ritual suicide). So Saito reluctantly releases Nicholson, telling him that he has proclaimed an "amnesty" to commemorate the anniversary of Japan's great victory in the Russo-Japanese War, using it as an excuse to exempt the officers from work. Upon their release, Nicholson and his officers proudly walk through a jubilant reception. Saito for his part breaks down in tears in private.

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Jet Li Fearless

2008-02-10T09:44:00.000-08:00

Fearless, known in Chinese as Huo Yuanjia (Chinese: 霍元甲; pinyin: Huò Yuánjiǎ) and Jet Li's Fearless in the United States is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li. It is loosely based on the life of Huo Yuanjia, a legendary Chinese martial artist who challenged foreign fighters in highly publicised events, restoring pride and nationalism to China at a time when Western Imperialism and Japanese manipulation were eroding the country. Jet Li stated in an interview that this film is his last wushu martial arts epic, a point also made in the movie's television promotions and other publicity. Fearless was released on June 23, 2006 in the United Kingdom, and on September 22, 2006 in the United States.

Plot

Jet Li loosely portrays the life of martial arts master Huo Yuanjia. The plot differs greatly from the actual life of Huo Yuanjia.

The movie starts off with Huo Yuanjia fighting 3 Westerners: a boxer, a spearfighter and a fencer. Huo Yuanjia beats them all, and makes it his habit to bow to the opponent. Just as he is about to fight Anno Tanaka, the final contestant, Huo Yuanjia has a flashback.

The story flashes back to when Huo Yuanjia was a small boy. His father, Huo Endi, was a great fighter but did not want his asthmatic son to follow in his footsteps, and hence refused to teach Yuanjia martial arts. Huo secretly watched his father's training and taught himself how to fight.

The young Yuanjia then witnesses his father "losing" a Lei tai match; in actuality, his father struck the winning blow of the match, because he delivered a fatal technique which he mercifully pulled short so that his opponent would not be killed. However, his opponent dishonorably struck back after Huo Endi's winning blow, causing Huo Endi to "lose" the match when he is knocked off the stage. Yuanjia is taunted by the son of the man who defeated his father and he steps up to defend the Huo family name. Yuanjia gets beaten up by the boy and he swears never to lose again.

As the years pass, Yuanjia grows into a powerful fighter, winning fight after fight on the Lei tai until he becomes known as one of the greatest fighters in Tianjin, China. However, as his success grows, he becomes arrogant and increasingly ruthless, unlike his late father. When a rival martial arts master named Qin Lei (Master Chin in the US version) apparently injures one of Huo's followers, Huo forces Qin to fight him to the death during Qin's birthday celebration. Yuanjia's businessman friend, Nong Jinsun, urges him to settle the matter later, but Yuanjia refuses, insulting Nong. After much effort, during which the fighters demolish a restaurant, Huo—unlike his father who had previously held off during the Lei tai match—kills Qin with a fatal blow. However, when he returns home, he realizes that his mother and daughter (Jade in the US version) have been killed in revenge. Guided by fury, he goes to Qin's home and finds Qin's Godson, who admits to slaughtering Huo's family, and that he alone was responsible. Qin's Godson then commits suicide before Huo can kill him.As he leaves, his pupils approach, and force the pupil that was injured by Qin to tell Huo that the reason Qin attacked his pupil was because the pupil had slept with Qin's concubine (in the American version he insults Qin's mistress). Crazed with grief and shame, Huo flees Tianjin and wanders aimlessly for many miles, no longer caring about himself. A disheveled, greying wanderer, he nearly drowns in a river, but is saved by Granny Sun (Grandma in the US version) and her blind granddaughter, Yueci (Moon in the US version). They bring him back to their village and guided by their simple acts of kindness, Huo begins to learn the value of kindness and mercy.

In 1907, Huo Yuanjia returns to a very different Tianjin than the one he had left. No longer a comfortable rural village, it is now a bustling city, crowded with foreign troops and merchants. There, he makes peace with his past—visiting the graves of his family and apologizing for his faults, and paying his respects to the family of Master Qin.

He then reconciles with Nong Jinsun and challenges the American fighter, Hercules O'Brien, who was making headlines defeating Chinese fighters and dismissing them as the 'Weak men of the East'. To the astonishment of the foreigners, Huo not only wins the fight, but the admiration of O'Brien in the process by saving O'Brien's life. Huo Yuanjia's fame begins to spread with successive challenges with other foreign fighters, and with funding from Nong Jinsun, he sets up Jing Wu Men, a martial arts school in Shanghai.

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Shaft

2008-02-09T16:08:00.000-08:00

Shaft is a 2000 movie that was directed by John Singleton. It is the remake of the 1971 original. The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson (as John Shaft), Toni Collette, Busta Rhymes, Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Mekhi Phifer and Christian Bale. The actor from the original movie, Richard Roundtree, also briefly reprises his role as John Shaft, the uncle to Jackson's character.

Plot

John Shaft is called in to investigate a racially motivated murder committed by Walter Wade (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy tycoon. However, eye witness Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette) disappears without a trace. Having been let off on bail, Wade flees to Switzerland. Two years later, he returns confident that his connections and wealth will acquit him, so long as the waitress witness doesn't testify against him. Wade then enlists the help of a Dominican drug lord, Peoples Hernandez (Jeffrey Wright), to do his dirty business for him. Shaft must, with the help of his fellow detective Carmen Vasquez (Vanessa L. Williams), find Diane whilst having to fight off Wade, Peoples, several shot guns, and a host of corrupt officers in order to bring Wade to justice.

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Double Jeopardy

2008-02-09T12:14:00.000-08:00

Double Jeopardy is a film made in 1999 starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd, about a woman who is framed for the murder of her husband.

Plot

Elizabeth 'Libby' Parsons (Judd) holds the belief, subsequently proven correct, that her husband Nick Parsons (Bruce Greenwood) is still alive and staged his own death for the purpose of falsely convicting her of murder. She serves six years in prison before being paroled, and emerges bent on finding her husband and son so as to take her revenge on the former and rescue the latter.

The movie explores the ramifications of a misinterpretation of the legal doctrine of double jeopardy which is a constitutional right in the United States granted by the Fifth Amendment to the US constitution. A fellow prison inmate advises Libby she could kill her husband in the middle of Times Square and the police would be powerless to do anything about it because of double jeopardy, because she had already been convicted once for his murder and served time. Both Libby and Lehman (Jones) repeat this theory later in the movie in order to frighten Nick in the climactic confrontation scene.

Cast

* Tommy Lee Jones - Travis Lehman
* Ashley Judd - Elizabeth 'Libby' Parsons
* Bruce Greenwood - Nicholas Nick' Parsons
* Benjamin Weir - Matty Parsons age 4
* Jay Brazeau - Bobby Long
* John MacLaren - Rudy
* Ed Evanko - Warre
* Annabeth Gish - Angela 'Angie' Green

Dante's Peak

2008-02-09T12:08:00.000-08:00

Dante's Peak is a 1997 action-adventure film starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton. It portrays the effect of a volcano erupting in a small town in the Pacific Northwest portion of the United States. It was released a few months before Volcano and received wider success. It has also been acclaimed for its scientific accuracy, which Volcano lacked.

Plot

The film is set in the fictional town of Dante's Peak, Washington, located in the northern Cascade Mountains, but was actually filmed in and around Wallace in northern Idaho. The film is somewhat based on the real-life eruptions of Mount St. Helens in 1980 and Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The film is noted to have put emphasis on trying to accurately depict a volcanic eruption.[2] The film begins with the volcanic eruption of an unnamed volcano in Colombia (the script says this is Galeras, and the eruption is presumably the 1993 eruption which killed several volcanologists) where volcanologist Dr. Harry Dalton (Brosnan) attempts to evacuate with his fiancée Marianne. As they begin heading out of the town, large pieces of volcanic rocks begin to crash onto the small town, one of which penetrates the vehicle and kills Marianne.

Four years later, Harry is called in from vacation by his boss to investigate activity going on in the Northern Cascades region near the town of Dante's Peak. Meanwhile, a couple of backpackers went to the hot spring. A few minutes later, a small amount of volcanic activity had turned the hot spring sulfric, thus slowly chewing away and boiling the couple. At Dante's Peak, the town is receiving an award for being "The second most desirable place to live in the United States, population under 20,000" and celebrating its annual "Pioneer Days Festival". Harry meets with the town's mayor, Rachel Wando (Hamilton), who accompanies him with her two children, Graham (Foley) and Lauren (Smith), up to the mountain's "high lake" (high altitude lake located near the summit) to check the acidity in the water. After checking the acidity and picking up the mayor's ex-mother in law, Ruth (Hoffman), the five of them head to the town's hot springs where they discover the bodies of two dead backpackers, seared by the volcanic activity under the hot springs.

Never Die Alone

2008-02-09T12:02:00.000-08:00

Never Die Alone is a 2004 crime thriller / drama film, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Donald Goines.

Plot

Hardened criminal and drug dealer King David (played by DMX) is returning to New York, where he can find redemption by settling an old score with drug lord Moon (played by Clifton Powell) and always talking about a woman named Edna. As David walks through New York, he meets up with old acquitances and momentarily passes by Paul (David Arquette), a failing journalist.

Mike (Michael Ealy) is assigned to collect Moon's money from David, appearing to be very interested in him for some reason. He, Blue (Antwon Tanner) and his sister go to David and collect the money, but then Mike stabs David when he doesn't know who he is. David stabs Blue in the eye with an ice pick before they abandon him (King David)in a gutter. Paul, who was passing by at that moment, drives David, a total stranger, to the hospital.

Meanwhile, Moon tells Mike to bring everyone to a parking garage, where Blue and Mike's sister are killed. Mike kills the henchmen and goes to take revenge on Moon. Back at the hospital, Paul is informed that King has died, but that he left him all his personal possessions. These include jewelry, his car, and a collection of audio tapes, which turn out to be the audio journal of his life that was recorded on the drive from Los Angeles to New York.

By listening to the journal, the story of David's life is told: After a particularly bad drug experience in the east, David returned to the west in search of a second chance. He finds assistance with the Vietnamese and even a new girlfriend, Janet (Jennifer Sky). A television star, she turns to David's heroin and becomes sick and detached in the process. David abandons her as she presumably turns to selling his drugs to pay the bills and for her drug habit.

In the present, Mike hunts down Moon while Moon hunts down Mike. Additionally, word of a white man that accompanied David to the hospital gets out, and Moon starts to hunt him down as well. Paul, meanwhile, listens some more: After Janet, David moved on to Juanita (Reagan Gomez-Preston), a college girl with a lot of talent. Their relationship goes well as David starts to make a lot of money, but then Juanita tries his drugs. She doesn't get addicted, but she does turn out to be very selfish by refusing to move in with David, insisting that $250,000 isn't enough to retire on. Angry, David secretly switches her cocaine with heroin, getting her addicted.

Paul realizes that the money David talked about might be in David's trunk. It is, but at the same time, Moon's henchman are sprawling all over New York in search of him. Mike finally hunts down Moon and kills him when he is in the tub with two blonde women.

Back with Paul, he listens to the last tape: David leaves Juanita, but she soon comes back, addicted to heroin and begging for help. He agrees to help her out in exchange for anal sex. This brings down her dreams and causes her severe emotional distress, thus making her addictions even stronger. After awhile, she demands that he pay for her entrance to rehab or else she'll call the police.

Enraged, David decides to do the same thing he did to Edna: Mix her heroin with car battery acid, resulting in a fatal seizure for her. Through a flashback, it is revealed that David is the father of Mike, who is also Edna's child, and that David brutally hit him before poisoning Edna. The tape ends with David speculating on how his return to New York will bring about his redemption with Moon and tie the loose end with Edna's child.

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Broken Arrow

2008-02-09T11:58:00.000-08:00

Broken Arrow is a 1996 American action film directed by John Woo and starring John Travolta and Christian Slater.

Plot

Major Vic 'Deak' Deakins (John Travolta) and Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) are pilots in the United States Air Force. Early in the film, Deakins and Hale take off from Whiteman Air Force Base in a B-3 Bomber (a fictional advanced version of the actual B-2 Spirit stealth bomber) carrying two live nuclear weapons on an evening exercise over Utah.

During the flight, Deakins goes rogue and fights with Hale inside the cockpit, attempting to shoot him with his sidearm. After momentarily stunning Hale, Deakins ejects Hale from the cockpit, then releases the two nukes. Deliberately sabotaging the plane, Deakins notifies Colonel Max Wilkins (Delroy Lindo) that Hale 'lost it' before ejecting himself.

Natural preserve ranger Terry Carmichael, played by Samantha Mathis, finds Hale after seeing the pilot eject from the stricken aircraft. She is suspicious at first and pulls a revolver on the pilot. After a brief scuffle, Terry gives in and accepts Hale's story.

Deakins' plan is to detonate one of the weapons deep in an abandoned copper mine, then demand a ransom of $250 million to return the other, otherwise he will destroy Denver.

The race is now on to recover the bombs and stop Deakins. Hale knows Deakins better than anyone, but matching wits with a major strategist may be easier said than done.

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The Godfather Part 3

2008-02-09T11:54:00.000-08:00

The Godfather Part III (1990) is the third and final film in the Godfather trilogy written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone, a Mafia godfather who tries to legitimize his criminal empire. The movie also weaves into its plot a fictionalized account of real-life events — the mysterious 1978 death of Pope John Paul I and the Papal banking scandal of 1981-1982 — and links them with each other and with the affairs of Michael Corleone. The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, and Sofia Coppola.

Plot summary

The movie begins in 1979, with a brief flashback establishing the long and tragic history of criminal activity within, and by, the Corleone family. Much has changed. Michael Corleone is now approaching 60 and feels tremendous guilt for indulging in his ruthless ambition many years ago. Although his previous conquests have made him a very rich man, the thoughts of his children, their future, happiness, and his legacy are the only things keeping him going. His adopted brother Tom Hagen is now dead. The Corleone compound at Lake Tahoe is abandoned and in disrepair. Michael and Kay divorced in 1959, and Michael gave her custody of his children, Anthony and Mary.

Michael has returned to New York City, where he is using his enormous wealth and power to restore his dignity and reputation in the eyes of the public. The violent criminal element of the Corleone family has been largely abandoned, ostracized by Michael as well as the public, which no longer romanticizes the gangster lifestyle. Michael has embraced corporate America, which is now more tolerant of Michael's nihilism. He has rebuilt the Corleone interests as a legitimate enterprise using the blood money from his gangster years. The thugs and sociopathic soldiers from Michael's past have either gone into the underground, or have been relegated to the background, serving as bodyguards for Michael and his family. Michael now struggles between repairing his fragile relationships while trying to contain the violent sociopaths that are still a part of his decaying criminal empire. In an attempt to break with the past, Michael creates a charity, the Vito Corleone Foundation, in memory of his father. At a ceremony in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, presided over by Archbishop Gilday, Michael is named a Commander of the Order of St. Sebastian. Kay, who has remarried, sits with Michael's children at the ceremony.

At the lavish party following the ceremony, Kay and Michael have a somewhat uneasy reunion. Anthony tells his father that he is going to drop out of law school to pursue a career as an opera singer. Kay supports his choice, but Michael disagrees, wishing that his son would finish law school or join the family business. Michael eventually acquiesces to Anthony's wishes. Meanwhile, Vincent Mancini, Sonny Corleone’s illegitimate son, shows up at the party. He is embroiled in a feud with Joey Zasa, the Corleone family's mafioso muscle. What remains of the old Corleone criminal empire is now under Zasa's stewardship. However, the Corleones old neighborhood in New York City is in ruins, and has become lawless. In Michael's study, Vincent and Zasa tell him about their feud. The discussion grows violent, with Vincent accusing Zasa of being an out-of-control monster who mocks Michael behind his back. Michael makes it clear that he is not "a gangster" and that whatever bad blood exists between Vincent and Joey Zasa is none of his business, and must be settled between only them. He asks the two men to make peace with one another. The two men embrace, but Zasa insults Vincent by whispering "bastardo" in his ear. Enraged, Vincent bites off part of Zasa’s ear. Zasa is escorted out and Michael scolds Vincent for his violent ways. But impressed by Vincent's passionate loyalty to protect him, Michael agrees to take his nephew under his wing. The party concludes with a family picture where Michael asks Vincent to join the rest of the family.

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The Godfather Part 2

2008-02-09T11:51:00.000-08:00

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the events of the first film while also depicting the rise to power of the young Vito Corleone.

It is ranked as the third best movie of all time by the Internet Movie Database, with the movie's predecessor, The Godfather, ranked as #1, and the American Film Institute lists it as #32. The Godfather Part II is considered by many as the greatest sequel of all-time, being nominated for 11 Academy Awards and winning 6, including the Best Picture Award and the Best Supporting Actor Award. It is considered by some critics to be better than the original.

The Godfather Part II has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Plot

The Godfather Part II presents two parallel storylines. One involves Mafia chief Michael Corleone following the events of the first movie; the other is a series of flashbacks following his father, Vito Corleone, from his childhood in Sicily (1901) to his founding of the criminal Corleone Family in New York City while still a young man (1917-1925).

The film begins in 1901, in the town of Corleone in Sicily, at the funeral procession for young Vito's father, Antonio Andolini, who has been ordered killed by the local Mafia chieftain, Don Ciccio. During the procession, Vito's older brother Paolo is also murdered because he swore revenge on the Don. Vito's mother goes to Ciccio to beg him to let young Vito live. When he refuses, she holds a knife to his throat, sacrificing herself to allow Vito to escape, and Ciccio's gunmen shoot her. They scour the town for Vito, warning the sleeping townsfolk that they will regret harboring the boy. With the aid of a few of the townspeople, Vito finds his way by ship to New York. Arriving at Ellis Island, an immigration agent, mishearing Vito's hometown of Corleone as his surname, registers him as "Vito Corleone".

The film then moves into the late 1950s, to a scene similar to the opening of the first film, where Michael Corleone, Godfather of the Corleone Family, deals with various business and family problems at his Lake Tahoe, Nevada compound during an elaborate party celebrating his son's First Communion. He meets with Nevada Senator Pat Geary, who despises the Corleones, but has shown up with his wife to accept a large endowment to the state university from Michael in his son's name. During a tense negotiation, Senator Geary demands a grossly exaggerated price for a new gaming license and a monthly payment of 5% of the gross profits from all of the Corleone Family's Nevada gaming interests, to which Michael responds with a counter-offer of "nothing".

Michael also deals with his sister Connie, who, although recently divorced, is planning to marry a man with no obvious means of support, who Michael disapproves of. He also talks with Johnny Ola, the right hand man of Jewish gangster Hyman Roth, who is supporting Michael's move into the gambling industry. Finally, Michael meets with Frank "Five Angels" Pentangeli, who took over Corleone caporegime Peter Clemenza's territory after his death, and now has problems with the Rosato Brothers, who are backed by Roth. Michael refuses to allow Pentangeli to kill the Rosatos, due to his desire to prevent interruption of his business with Roth. Pentangeli leaves abruptly, after telling Michael "your father did business with Hyman Roth, your father respected Hyman Roth, but your father never trusted Hyman Roth."

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The Godfather

2008-02-09T11:49:00.001-08:00

The Godfather is an Academy Award-winning 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton and James Caan. The story spans ten years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the Corleone crime family.

The Godfather has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In addition, it is ranked as the second greatest film in American cinematic history, behind Citizen Kane, on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute. It is also the top movie on Internet Movie Database's Top 250 list, as well as #1 on Metacritic's top 100 list and in the top 10 on Rotten Tomatoes' all-time best list.

Two sequels followed The Godfather, The Godfather Part II in 1974 and The Godfather Part III in 1990.

Plot

At the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie and Carlo Rizzi in the late summer of 1945, Vito, the head of the Corleone Mafia family – who is known to his friends and associates as Godfather – and Tom Hagen, the Corleone family lawyer and consigliere (counselor), are hearing requests for favors from friends and associates, because "no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day". Meanwhile, the Don's youngest son Michael, who has returned from World War II service as a decorated war hero, tells his girlfriend Kay Adams anecdotes about his father's criminal life, reassuring her that he is not like his family.

Among the guests at the celebration is the famous singer Johnny Fontane, Corleone's godson, who has come from Hollywood to petition for help in landing a movie role that will revitalize his flagging career. Jack Woltz, the head of the studio, will not give Fontane the part, but Don Corleone explains to Johnny: "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." Hagen is dispatched to California to fix the problem, but Woltz angrily tells him that he will never cast Fontane in the role, for which he is perfect, because Fontane seduced and "ruined" a starlet that Woltz favored. The next morning, Woltz wakes up to find the bloody severed head of his prize stud horse in the bed with him. Woltz gives in.

Upon Hagen's return, the family meets with Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, who is being backed by the rival Tattaglia family. He asks Don Corleone for financing and political and legal protection for the importation and distribution of heroin, but despite the huge amount of money to be made, Corleone refuses, explaining that his political influence would be jeopardized by a move into the narcotics trade. The Don's oldest son, hotheaded Sonny, who had earlier expressed to the Don his support of the family entering into the narcotics trade, breaks rank during the meeting and questions Sollozzo's assurances as to the Corleone Family's investment being guaranteed by the Tattaglia Family. His father, angry at Sonny's dissension in front of a non-family member, privately rebukes him later. Don Corleone then dispatches his top button man (hit man), Luca Brasi, to infiltrate Sollozzo's organization and report back with information.

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Mission Impossible III

2008-02-09T11:46:00.001-08:00

Mission: Impossible III (abbreviated M:i:III) is the third film based on the television series Mission: Impossible starring Tom Cruise who reprises his role of IMF agent Ethan Hunt.

The film was directed by J. J. Abrams. It was first released on April 26, 2006 at the Tribeca Film Festival, and widely released in the United States on May 5, 2006. Filming began in Rome, Italy in July 2005. The film had been kept under extremely tight wraps, and very little was known of its plots or new featured characters during filming. Location filming took place in China (Shanghai, Xitang, and Zhouzhuang), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Rome and Caserta), the United States (California and Virginia), and Vatican City.

Synopsis

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has retired from being an IMF team leader, instead opting for a quiet life with his fiancée Julia (Michelle Monaghan), a hospital nurse. The film begins in medias res with Ethan and Julia held captive and threatened by an unnamed man. The narrative then rolls back five days. During his engagement party, Ethan is called in by IMF Operations Director Musgrave (Billy Crudup) for a mission. Though he initially refuses the mission, after viewing a video hidden in a disposable camera he finds out his mission is to rescue his protege, Agent Lindsey Farris (Keri Russell), who has been captured in Berlin by Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a prominent dealer in the international black market (and the apparent interrogator in the prologue). He agrees to participate in the mission and meets his team which had been selected for him consisting of Declan Gormley (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), Zhen (Maggie Q), and his partner from the first two films, Luther Stickel (Ving Rhames).

The team assaults an enemy stronghold and extract Agent Farris, but she dies when they fail to remove an explosive capsule placed inside her head prior to the rescue. At Lindsey's funeral, Ethan is notified of a "package" sent to him by Lindsey, and discovers that it is a microdot hidden in a blank postcard. Ethan discusses its possible importance with Luther and both decide to keep its existence a secret.

Using information recovered from a laptop in the Berlin mission, Ethan then decides to go after Davian himself, targeting him at a meeting in Vatican City, where a lucrative transaction involving a mysterious object, codenamed "The Rabbit's Foot", is apparently taking place. Neither of Ethan's superiors, directors Brassell (Laurence Fishburne) or Musgrave, have authorized the mission. Before leaving, Ethan reassures Julia of their relationship, and promptly marries her at the hospital in a small ceremony. The team then arrives in Rome and sets off their elaborate plan to abduct Davian, barely avoiding disaster in the process. The operation succeeds nonetheless. Ethan interrogates Davian on the flight home however he is angered by Davian's quiet but confident threats of killing his wife Julia, and attempts to throw him off the plane before being talked out of it by Stickel.

While transporting Davian across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in a convoy, Luther hands Ethan a laptop computer and plays the video message from the decoded microdot: Lindsey had discovered that Director Brassel is a mole, who has been leaking information to Davian about IMF operations. Suddenly, Ethan and his team are attacked by a squad of mercenaries who after attacking Ethan and his team using a UAV drone manage to extract Davian. Remembering Davian's threats to kill his wife, Ethan immediately rushes to the hospital where Julia works. He arrives barely moments too late and finds that Julia has already been abducted. At that moment of despair, Ethan receives a call from Davian with a proposition; he must retrieve the "Rabbit's Foot" from a facility in Shanghai within 48 hours, or his wife will be killed. Ethan, anxious to begin his mission to rescue his wife is abruptly taken into custody by the IMF (accused of masterminding the ambush). However, he manages escape with help from Musgrave who intercepted Ethan's call from Davian and instructs Ethan to go to Shanghai.

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Mission Impossible II

2008-02-09T11:43:00.000-08:00

Mission: Impossible II, or M:I-2 as it is also known, is a 2000 film directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, the film's producer. It is a sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 film Mission: Impossible with Cruise returning as IMF agent Ethan Hunt.

The film finds Hunt teaming up with former partner Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) and helicopter pilot Billy Baird (John Polson) in order to thwart the plans of former IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott). The film also stars Brendan Gleeson, Richard Roxburgh and Anthony Hopkins in an uncredited role as Hunt's overseer Swanbeck.

Plot

The movie's plot involves a virus which is named after the Chimera creature from Greek mythology. Sean Ambrose plans to release the virus and then make money from selling the antidote. Several characters use the mask disguises as in the first Mission Impossible film. The pre-title sequence involves a Boeing 747 seized over the Colorado Rockies where the virus is taken from the scientist bringing it to Atlanta. Hunt is recruited for the mission by helicopter after rock climbing to the top of a cliff. He later goes to Seville to recruit Nyah Nordoff-Hall, and sets up her false arrest so that Sean Ambrose will rescue her. The second half of the film takes place in Sydney with scenes at a race track and later at a research facility which Hunt must break into to take the virus. Ethan destroys the colture and two of three refined virus samples, before Ambrose catches him and wreaks havoc in the lab. In the end, Nyah injects herself with the virus so that she will become valuable. The finale involves a long motorcycle chase where Ethan races for the North Head where they have tracked Nyah on the GPS chip, and a final encounter in the beach with Ambrose, who is knocked unconscious after a short fight but reappears again and is shot to death by Ethan.

The plot of this film heavily borrows from the film Notorious (1946 film), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The plot of the movie and the scene at the race track bear close resemblances to Notorious. In MI:2, Tom Cruise recruits Thandie Newton to spy on Dougray Scott. Both Cruise and Dougray Scott are in love with her and Cruise is ridden with angst for putting her in such a position. The same happens in Notorious, with Cary Grant recruiting Ingrid to spy on the villian who is in love with her. and throughout the movie he is torn for doing that. Cruise and Newton exchange information at a racing track under the villian's eyes and in Notorious movie Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman do the same under similar circumstances.

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Mission Impossible

2008-02-09T11:39:00.001-08:00

Mission: Impossible (1996) is the first movie based on the television series Mission: Impossible. It was directed by Brian De Palma and starred Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. The movie was the third highest grossing of the year. It was followed by 2000's Mission: Impossible II and 2006's Mission: Impossible III.

Plot summary

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is an agent of an Impossible Missions Force team led by Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), which assembles for a mission in Prague to prevent an American diplomat from selling the Non-official cover (NOC) list, a comprehensive list of all IMF agents in Eastern Europe. The mission goes inextricably wrong, resulting in the deaths of the entire team, leaving Hunt the sole survivor. Fleeing the scene, Hunt meets with Eugene Kittridge (Henry Czerny), the CIA-based director of the IMF, at a café. Hunt, very much in shock, is disturbed to learn from Kittridge that a mole, codenamed Job, has infiltrated the IMF, and that the Prague operation was meant to ferret Job out by allowing him to acquire the NOC list and attempt to sell it to Max, an illegal arms dealer known for corrupting IMF agents. The NOC list in Prague was fake, the real list being held in CIA headquarters in Virginia. With Hunt the sole survivor, the CIA believes he is the mole. Hunt realizes this, and mounts a daring escape from the café, fleeing into Prague.

Ethan returns to the IMF safe house, where he discovers fellow IMF agent Claire Phelps (Emmanuelle Béart), Jim Phelps's wife, actually survived the mission. Ethan begins correspondence with "Max" (Vanessa Redgrave), explaining that the NOC list was a fake and offering to deliver the real NOC list in exchange for the identity of the mole. Max agrees to the deal and offers Ethan a cash advance, which Ethan uses to assemble a team of blacklisted or disavowed intelligence agents, including computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and pilot Franz Krieger (Jean Reno). The new team infiltrates the heavily fortified headquarters of the CIA in Langley and successfully steals a copy of the full NOC list before escaping to a safe house in London. Once there, Hunt discovers that his uncle and mother have been falsely arrested for drug trafficking. This infuriates Hunt, and he contacts Kittridge, who offers to drop the false charges the moment Hunt surrenders to authorities. Hunt hangs up, after allowing Kittridge to trace him to London, turns around and walks right into Jim Phelps.

Phelps, presumed dead in the Prague operation, reveals that Kittridge is the mole and is tying up loose ends by trying to apprehend Hunt. Hunt reflects on this, while in reality piecing together the clues he discovered leading up to his operation and realizes that Phelps is the mole, Job. Hunt pretends to accept the story while being uncertain about Krieger's and Claire's places in the conspiracy. The next day, Max and Ethan arrange to meet aboard the TGV en route to Paris, with Claire and Luther aboard to provide backup. Kittridge is also aboard, having recently arrived in London and received tickets for the TGV and a video watch from Hunt. In the train, Ethan delivers the supposed NOC list to Max, who directs him to the luggage compartment to find his money and Job. Max then attempts to transmit the NOC list to a server, an operation hindered by Luther, who activates a jamming device to prevent the upload. Claire, observing Kittridge's presence aboard the train, vacates her seat and meets with "Phelps" in the luggage car, confirming her part in the conspiracy. A silent "Phelps" slowly peels away his mask, revealing himself as Ethan. Suddenly, the real Phelps appears, armed and demanding the NOC list money. Ethan surrenders it before pulling out a pair of glasses. He slides them over his eyes, activating the camera inside and transmitting Phelps's image to Kittridge, proving beyond doubt that Phelps is still alive.

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Dead Man's Shoes

2008-02-09T10:29:00.000-08:00

Dead Man's Shoes is a British crime thriller 2004 film directed by Shane Meadows and written by Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine.

As with all of Meadows' work, it is based in the Midlands, with the film being shot in Matlock, Derbyshire. The film stars Paddy Considine, who went on to win an Empire Award for his performance. Featuring many first-time and non-professional actors, Considine's two nephews also feature. It garnered mostly positive reviews, but did not attain any sizeable commercial success.

This movie was dedicated to the memory of Paddy Considine's father.

Plot

The story revolves around the character of Richard (Paddy Considine), a Paratrooper returning to his small home town of Matlock in the Peak District. Richard has returned home to exact revenge on his mentally disabled younger brother Anthony's (Toby Kebbell) tormentors. In the opening line of the film, Richard narrates: "God will forgive them. He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven. I can't live with that."

Richard and Anthony camp at an abandoned farm near the town, their reminiscences of childhood interspersed with flashbacks to Anthony's ordeal at the hands of the gang youth, and Richard's subsequent revenge. This revenge starts when the gang and their leader Sonny find out about his presence. Sonny confronts Richard in a failed attempt to intimidate him. Richard's revenge begins with the older members of the gang. While they are asleep he sneaks into their house, wearing a green coat and a gas mask. He spray paints one of the two mens hair multi-coloured and paints a target on the back of the other's suit. On the same evening he enters Sonny's house and applies make up to Sonny's face.

However things soon turn nasty as Richard sneaks into a club where the gang are hiding out and playing cards and kills one of their members with an axe, using his blood to scribble the words "One Down" on the wall. The gang take their Citroën 2CV and go to the farm where Richard is staying with Anthony. Sending in Al (one of their members) to draw Richard out, Sonny prepares to shoot him with a rifle. However, he misfires and kills Al. With no bullets remaining in the gun he decides to quickly retreat and return back to town.

The surviving members return to a local petrol station where Tuff runs off, scared of Richard's revenge. The other three return home, they search the house expecting Richard to be there. However while they are upstairs Richard laces their kettle with a sizable amount of drugs taken from the gang earlier in the film. The three members become too high to be aware that Richard is in the house and he kills them one by one. He shoots Sonny in the head, punches Mark at such an angle that he is killed, and finally stabs Herbie. Before killing Herbie, he reveals having also already killed Tuff, producing his corpse in a suitcase, although it is not revealed how.

With one member of the gang left, Richard abducts him and takes him to an old outbuilding. It is now revealed that Anthony is dead, having hanged himself after being tormented by the gang. The Anthony that is seen with Richard throughout the film is in fact, a hallucination. Not wishing to kill the final member, due to his having children and not being directly responsible for Anthony's death (though not doing anything to prevent it), Richard then forces him to stab him, and dies with his revenge complete.

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Bullet in the Head

2008-02-09T10:25:00.001-08:00

Bullet in the Head (traditional Chinese: 喋血街頭; simplified Chinese: 流血街角) is a 1990 Hong Kong action/drama co-written, produced and directed by John Woo.

A radical assault on the senses, Bullet in the Head portrays the distressing escapades of several friends cajoled, through a random act of violence, into sacrificing the idyllic innocence of youth to fanaticism and injustice of the Vietnam war. Some critics note the similarities between Woo's Bullet in the Head and Michael Cimino's 1978 Vietnam epic, The Deer Hunter

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The Departed

2008-02-09T10:19:00.000-08:00

The Departed is the 2006 Academy Award Best Picture winner and crime drama directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg. It is an American remake of the 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs. The plot of the movie is said to be partially inspired by a famous Bollywood flick Don (1978 film).

This film takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, where notorious Irish Mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Nicholson) plants his protégé Colin Sullivan (Damon) as an informant within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover cop William Costigan, Jr. (DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides of the law realize the situation, each man attempts to discover the other's true identity before being found out.

The film begins in South Boston and Charlestown during the Boston riots featuring a montage of documentary footage with voice-over narration by Irish mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello (Jack Nicholson). While in a local store to collect his pay-off from the owner, Costello recognizes and speaks with a young neighborhood boy named Colin Sullivan (played by Conor Donovan). Costello has the store owner give Sullivan two bags of groceries, and tells Sullivan to come around when he wants to "earn" some extra money. Sullivan later takes Costello up on the offer, and is introduced to Costello's criminal underworld at a tender age. While in his company, Costello indoctrinates Sullivan with beliefs that "a man makes his own way", and "no one gives it to you... you have to take it". Costello points out that when people tell him what to do, he makes sure "something happens to them".

Many years later, an older Colin Sullivan, (now played by Matt Damon) is finishing his training for the Massachusetts State Police with fellow classmate Barrigan (James Badge Dale). In another class are cadets Brown (Anthony Anderson) and William Costigan, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio). All four men graduate to become state troopers. Sullivan makes sergeant, and also passes the state trooper detective test. Shortly afterward, Sullivan meets with the calm and collected Captain Queenan (Martin Sheen) and the aggressive and cynical Staff Sergeant Dignam (Mark Wahlberg), and is assigned to the Special Investigations Unit ("S.I.U.") of the State Police Department. Queenan and Dignam also interview Costigan, but with a different assignment in mind. Queenan and Dignam ask Costigan Costigan, whose family had ties with the Boston underworld, to join the undercover division of S.I.U., and be placed as a mole in Costello's crew. To make his new identity believable, S.I.U. creates a false assault conviction for Costigan. Costigan then serves a four month jail sentence to comply with the sham conviction, and is placed on probation requiring psychiatry sessions with staff psychiatrist Madolyn Madden (Vera Farmiga). Costigan's police academy record and file are concealed from the department, leaving only Queenan and Dignam with any knowledge as to Costigan's true identity.

Sullivan, in the meantime, is fortuitously placed in organized-crime division of S.I.U., in an "elite unit" headed by the sardonically humorous Captain Ellerby (Alec Baldwin). The unit's only target is mob boss Frank Costello, on whom the unit gathers surveillance and information on through enhanced coordination with the FBI. Although Staff Sergeant Dignam agrees to assist Ellerby's unit, he illustrates his distrust of other department bureaus by refusing to reveal whether there are currently any police moles inside Costello's gang. Dignam instead provides only trivial information to Ellerby's unit about advanced weapon micro-processors that are believed to have been stolen by Costello.

Look Out, Officer

2008-02-09T08:48:00.000-08:00

After police officer Paio is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear his name. Hsing (Stephen Chow), a rookie officer, is the saviour and in return for finding Paio's killer, Piao must get him a girlfriend and a promotion.

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All for the Winner

2008-02-09T08:27:00.001-08:00

All for the Winner (Chinese: 賭聖 Literal translation: "Saint of Gambling") is a 1990 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Jeff Lau and Corey Yuen.

This is the movie that launched Stephen Chow to stardom. It is a parody of the original Dou San or God of Gamblers movie which starred Chow Yun-Fat in 1989.

Plot

Sing (Stephen Chow) is a mainland China country boy who arrives in Hong Kong to visit his Uncle "Blackie Tat" (Ng Man-Tat). When Sing stays with his uncle and his friends in their apartment, Blackie soon learns of Sing's supernatural ability to see through objects and, later on, his ability to change playing cards by rubbing them. He takes advantage of this and turns Sing into the Dou Seng or the "Saint of Gamblers". After getting into a fight with several alleyway gamblers he meets the lovely Yee-Mong (lit. trans: Beautiful Dream, but euphemistically as wet dream), a henchman for the "King of Gamblers", and becomes infatuated with her. Sing quickly becomes a rival to the King and must win his way through a world competition to prove his skill.

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God of Gamblers 2

2008-02-09T07:56:00.000-08:00

God of Gamblers II (賭俠) (Dou Hap, literally "Knight of Gamblers") is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Wong Jing. It stars Andy Lau as Little Knife, Stephen Chow as the Saint of Gamblers, and Ng Man Tat as Blackie Tat. This movie is a sequel to both God of Gamblers, which included Andy Lau's character, and to All for the Winner, which starred Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat. This film should not be confused with God of Gamblers Returns, also released as God of Gamblers 2, and in essence the true sequel to the original God of Gamblers.

Summary

In this movie, down on his luck, Sing (Stephen Chow), seeks out the God of Gamblers, in hopes of becoming his disciple. Unfortunately, the God of Gamblers is unreachable and out of the country, last heard to be in Brazil, and the Knight of Gamblers (Andy Lau) replaces the God of Gamblers. When a phony attempts to impersonate the Knight of Gamblers in a huge scam, it's up to the real Knight and Saint of Gamblers to team up and defeat their formidable challenger. The film combines intricate action sequences with sharp comedic timing.

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God of Gamblers 3

2008-02-09T07:41:00.000-08:00

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (traditional Chinese: 賭俠2之上海灘賭聖; simplified Chinese: 赌侠2之上海滩赌圣; pinyin: Dǔxiá èr Shànghǎi tān Dǔshèng; lit. Knight of Gamblers II: Shanghai Beach's Saint of Gamblers) is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film, a sequel to the film God of Gamblers II. The film is directed by Wong Jing, and stars Stephen Chow and Ng Man Tat. The film does not feature the Knight of Gamblers, or the God of Gamblers. "God of Gamblers III" continues the story of the Saint of Gamblers (Chow).

Plot

After the events in God of Gamblers II, Tai-Kun who lost his ESP powers has regained the abilities again and decides to strike revenge towards Sing, the Saint of Gamblers. When Tai-Kun, with his condisciples as aids, is exerting ESP powers under full force against Sing who are doing the same, the spacetime becomes distorted and sends Tai-Kun and Sing to the 1937 Shanghai.

Meeting Sing's own grandfather Chow Tai Fook and the benign millionaire Ding Lik, Sing, in the meantime, must face the forthcoming crises arose from Ding Lik's foes and Japanese military forces, deal with his "mistaken" crush on one of a twin sisters, get to see for himself that who is the one that defeated the French "God of Gamblers" Pierre Cashon in that era - the mysterious "Comment allez-vous", and finally find out how to travel back to year 1991 Hong Kong...

Cast

* Stephen Chow - Chow Sing Cho "Saint of Gamblers"
* Ng Man Tat - Uncle Tat/Chow Tai Fook
* Gong Li - Miss Yu-San/Yu-Mong (Yu-San means "fairy-like" while Yu-Mong means "dream-like")[1]
* Sandra Ng - Spring
* Ray Lui - Ding Lik
* Chan Lung - Tiger Lui
* Cheung Man - Yee Mong
* John Ching - Tai-Kun, Devil of Gamblers
* Billy Chow - Japanese Soldier
* Charles Heung - Ng Loong "God of Guns"
* Dion Lam - One of Tai Kun's men
* Lau Shun - Eunuch Wei
* Indra Leech - Prince Of Gamblers
* Lung Fong - Wong Kam-Kwai
* Tien Feng - Mayor of Shanghai
* Barry Wong - H.K. Police Chief
* Declan Wong - Pierre Cashon, French "God of Gamblers"
* Wong Jing - H.K. Cop
* Wong Wan-Si - Japanese Officer
* Yeung Ching-Ching - Ding's Female Bodyguard

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Fight Back to School

2008-02-09T07:37:00.000-08:00

Fight Back To School (simplified Chinese: 逃学威龙; traditional Chinese: 逃學威龍) is one of the more successful films Stephen Chow was able to make during his more prolific years, arguably due to the commercial and critical success of 1990s All For The Winner. The talented cast features many of Chow's would-be long-term collaborators, such as Cheung Man and Ng Man-Tat, who both starred in All For The Winner. Owing to this success, the film spawned two successful sequels and a spin-off which retained much of the cast.

Plot

Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is about to be kicked out of the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). But a senior officer decides to give him one last chance: Star must go undercover as a student at the Edinburgh High School in Hong Kong to recover the senior officer's missing revolver.

The undercover operation is made complicated when Star is partnered with Tat - an aging, incompetent police detective (Ng Man-Tat). However, Star still manages to fall in love with Ms Ho (Cheung Man), the school's guidance counselor, as well as disrupting a gang involved in arms-dealing.

Cast and roles

* Stephen Chow - Star Chow / Chow Sing Sing
* Cheung Man - Miss Ho
* Ng Man-Tat - Tso Tat-Wah / 'Uncle' Tat
* Roy Cheung - Brother Teddy Big
* Barry Wong - Police Commissioner
* Gabriel Wong - Turtle Wong
* Paul Chun - Lam

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Tricky Brains

2008-02-09T07:22:00.000-08:00

Tricky Brains (整蠱專家) is a 1991 Hong Kong comedy film written and directed by Wong Jing starring Stephen Chow, Andy Lau and Rosamund Kwan.

Summary

Stephen Chow plays the "Handsome Tricky Expert", a man who has a wide range of tricks at his disposal, including many practical jokes and some more serious tricks. When he is hired to break up a young couple, Lucy (Rosamund Kwan) and Kit (Andy Lau) he goes undercover as the long lost brother of Kit.

Cast

* Stephen Chow
* Andy Lau
* Rosamund Kwan
* Ng Man Tat
* Chingmy Yau
* Waise Lee
* Hon Lam Baau
* Chan Pak-Cheung
* John Ching
* Charlie Cho

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King of Beggars

2008-02-09T07:15:00.000-08:00

King of Beggars is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Gordon Chan and David Lam, starring Stephen Chow, Cheung Man and Ng Man Tat.

Cast

* Stephen Chow
* Cheung Man
* Ng Man Tat
* Norman Chu
* Wai Lam
* Peter Lai
* Yuen King-Tan
* Chan Pak-cheung
* Lawrence Cheng

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Fight Back to School 2

2008-02-09T07:12:00.000-08:00

Fight Back to School 2 (逃學威龍2) is a Hong Kong comedy film produced in 1992, starring Stephen Chow and Cheung Man. It was directed by Gordon Chan (Chan Car-Seung 陳嘉上).

Plot

Star Chow (Stephen Chow) is an officer in the Royal Hong Kong Police's elite Special Duties Unit (SDU). During a meeting with his senior officer, Inspector Yip (Deannie Yip), Star jokingly suggests he wishes to be reassigned to the traffic unit.

Star immediately finds himself demoted to Constable engaging in traffic duty on the streets of Hong Kong. After being made the scapegoat for a failed high school firearms investigation, Star hastily resigns from the police.

He decides to enroll at the high school to launch his own private investigation. But Star realises the investigation won't be easy when he discovers that the bumbling, incompetent CID detective Tat (Ng Man-Tat) is also undercover at the high school.

Cast and roles

* Stephen Chow - Chow Sing Sing
* Cheung Man - Miss Ho
* Ng Man-Tat
* Athena Chu - Sandy Lai
* Deannie Yip
* Michael Chow Man-Kin - Undercover student
* Cheung Chi-Kwong - Maths teacher
* Michael Dingo - Peter
* Mark Houghton - Terrorist
* Jonathan Isgar - Terrorist
* Mark King - Terrorist
* Sau Leung 'Blacky' Ko - Belligerent hood
* Spencer Lam - Judo Teacher

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Fight Back to School 3

2008-02-09T07:09:00.000-08:00

Fight Back to School 3 (逃學威龍3之龍過雞年) is a Hong Kong comedy film produced in 1993 starring Stephen Chow and Cheung Man. The film was written and directed by Wong Jing, who replaced Gordon Chan as the director of the third installment.

Plot

Stephen Chow returns as Chow Sing-Sing, the obnoxious undercover cop who seems to get into all sorts of trouble, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite (Anita Mui), which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée played by Cheung Man who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.

Cast and roles

* Stephen Chow - Star Chow, Million Wong
* Anita Mui - Judy Tong Wong
* Cheung Man - Man
* Anthony Wong Chau Sang - Tailor Lam
* Chan Pak-cheung - Man's Cousin
* Philip Chan - Officer Chan
* John Ching - Devil of Gamblers
* Kathy Chow Hoi-Mei - Man Ching
* Paul Chun - Mr.Hung 'King of Gamblers'
* Leung Kar Yan - Officer Lai

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Flirting Scholar

2008-02-09T07:03:00.000-08:00

Flirting Scholar (original title: 唐伯虎點秋香 pinyin: Tang Bohu dian Qiuxiang ) is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy film starring Stephen Chow. Chow plays a character based on a famous historical personage Tang Yin, better known as Tong Bak Fu (Tang Bo Hu in Mandarin). The events in this movie are based on the story penned by Tong Bak Fu with a bit of artistic license applied.

Plot

In the Ming Dynasty, there exists a legendary au pair of four scholars, whose literary and artistic skills were the talk of South Central China, along with the capital area. Out of the four scholars, Tong Bak Fu (Stephen Chow) was most famous for his eight wives and literary skills, however, all is not rosy in the garden, as Tong's eight wives were complete gambling addicts, and, in general, unappreciative of Tong's artistic skills. This led to Tong's quest for a woman who truly understands him and appreciates his skills.

In addition to this quest, there is also a familial secret within the Tong Family. The Tong Family is actually a family of martial arts masters. The Tong Family had 2 major ememies, one was the Evil Scholar, who killed Tong Bak Fu's father during a melee, the other was a love rival of Tong Bak Fu's mother, Chussy. Due to these rivalries, Tong Bak Fu was forbidden by his mother to use martial arts at all.

One day, during an outing with the rest of the legendary four scholars, Tong stumbled upon the convoy of the House of Wah, an aristocratic family with much political power in the Ming Dynastical Government. That was when Tong met Chow Heung (Gong Li), one of the four maids in the House of Wah who is reknown for their legendary beauty. Tong originally sought to woo Chow Heung inside a temple, but was stopped violently by a monk. Afterwards, under the advice of a boat driver hired by Tong to chase the House of Wah's boat, Tong decided to enter the House of Wah as a lowly servant, and gained entry after a fierce bid war.

Tong finds life as a servant very difficult until he was caught apparently helping a band of rapists attempting to kidnap and rape Chow Heung. This results in Madame Wah discovering that Tong is actually educated, through a rap/poem Tong made up on the spot that claims that his life was ruined by Tong Pak Fu. After some persuasion by Chow Heung, Tong was hired as an assistant tutor for Madame Wah's two young sons, both of whom are mentally challenged, and was given the name Wah On.

After the sudden (and quite comical) death of the main tutor of the House of Wah, Tong was hired as the main tutor, and as a result, Tong managed to get closer to Chow Heung. The good times did not last long, however, as the House of Wah was visited by Chancellor Wah's political rival, King Ning, who brought along the Evil Scholar (Gordon Liu), notorious around China for his deadly weaponry, The Deadly Scholastic Sword (書生奪命劍). King Ning, on the surface, was bringing the "Spring and Autumn" painting by Tong Bak Fu for Chancellor Wah to see. But in reality, King Ning wanted to bring along the Evil Scholar to inflict damage and injuries in the Wah Family.

In the subsequent "viewing" of the painting (in actuality, a fierce martial arts melee), Madame Wah was injured, and Tong stepped in to finish the battle in the House of Wah's favor. He succeeded, but the painting was destroyed in the process. King Ning seized the opportunity to blame the House of Wah for insulting him by destroying the picture. To save the House of Wah from being possibly executed by King Ning, Tong claims that the destroyed painting was actually a counterfeit, and that there is a copy of the genuine painting inside the House of Wah compounds.

Afterwards, Tong left with Chow Heung to fetch the painting. Chow Heung was fearful, for the House of Wah, under the orders of Madame Wah, was not allowed to have Tong Bak Fu's paintings or works of literatures inside the compounds. Within a short time, Tong painted the picture on the spot, and presented the painting to King Ning. King Ning was defeated, but Tong unintentionally revealed his real identity to Madame Wah, who, as the love rival of Tong's mother, was one of the enemies of the Tong Family. Madame Wah poisoned Tong upon learning of his real identity.

Several days after the first melee, The Evil Scholar returned to the House of Wah to annihilate the entire House. Once again, Madame Wah sought to defend the family, but was almost killed in the process. Tong appeared moments before Madame Wah, and Chow Heung (who was protecting the injured Madame Wah), would be killed by the Evil Scholar. After a fierce battle, Tong kills the Evil Scholar and earns Chow Heung's hand in marriage as a reward. Madame Wah puts on a game to test Tong's love for Chow Heung, and Tong proved himself. Tong and Chow Heung eventually married each other in a ceremony where he discovers, to his dismay, that Chow Heung was as much a gambling addict as his previous eight wives.

Cast

* Stephen Chow - Tong Pak Foo
* Gong Li - Chow Heung
* Chan Pak-cheung - Chuck Chi-Shan
* Cheng Pei-pei - Madame Wah
* Liu Chia Hui - Evil Scholar
* Francis Ng - Member of The Four Scholars
* Vincent Kok - Tu Chuen-Chang
* Leung Ka-Yan - Mo Chong-Yuen
* Chan Fai-hung
* Chu Tiet Wo
* Peter Lai - Teacher
* Lam Wai - King Ning
* Lee Kin-Yan
* Leung Wing-Chung
* Carol Wan - Tung Heung
* Gabriel Wong - Wah-Man
* Wong Jim - Chancellor Wah
* Yuen King-Tan - Shek-Lau
* Mimi Zhu - Chussy

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Mad Monk

2008-02-09T05:55:00.000-08:00

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Love on Delivery

2008-02-09T05:47:00.000-08:00

Love on Delivery (破壞之王; aka. King of Destruction) is a 1994 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Stephen Chow and Lee Lik-Chi, starring Stephen Chow, Christy Chung and Ng Man Tat.

Plot

Ho Kam-An (Stephen Chow), a weak and disadvantaged but very kind lunch delivery boy, happens to fall in love with Lily (Christy Chung) the girl of his dreams from his local sport center. Only to have his dream crushed after a disastrous date in which Lily was punched in the face by accident from a bullying Judo master named Black Bear when Ho showed his cowardice (whom was ducking from Black Bear fist). Later that night in a straight forward way Lily told Ho that she dislike weak and pathetic men.

A heartbroken Ho was walking aimlessly until he came upon a convenient store owned by Tat (Ng Man Tat) whom claims to know a secret kung fu that will turn any pathetic weaklings into a champion in short time, to reinforce that dream, Ho gladly accepted Tat as his sifu. What Ho wasn't aware of is that Tat is actually a swindler who taught him only useless fantasy kung fu techniques. During the examination day Tat tried to get rid of Ho (only because Ho was fired from his work and hence he is dirt poor and couldn't pay for the fees) by teaching him "invincible wind and fire wheel", Ho was told to roll downwards towards a flight of few hundred steps (in the hope of seriously injuring Ho so he won' bother Tat anymore). However Tat had a change of heart later on and tried to stop Ho from rolling down the steps only to accidentally roll down the steps himself and seriously injuring himself, however Ho who been watching Tat had mistakenly thinking that Tat sacrificed himself to teach him the secret art of "invincible wind and fire wheel" said that he now know how to do this secret technique.

Lily is assaulted by Black Bear and his goons after a failed attempt to woe her, but Ho mysteriously turns up wearing a Garfield mask to rescue her. A one-sided fight occurs between Black Bear and Ho in which no matter how many times Black Bear knocks down Ho he still manages to continue the fight. At the end Ho manages to use the Invincible Firewheel on Black Bear and they both roll down a set of stairs, injuring Black Bear and leaving Lily in a state of shock.

Ho later on tries to tell Lily that it was he who saved her that day. However, Lily's boyfriend Niu, a karate champion from Japan, claims that he was the one who saved her. In a fit of rage during a press conference where Niu brags about his rescue of Lily, Ho challenges Niu to a MMA style combat match to prove it was he who saved Lily's life.

The next day, Ho together with a reluctant Tat was personally going to give Niu a "letter of challenge" in the sport club, they witnessed a brief confrontation with Niu brutally defeating the other resident martial artists in the sport club (a boxer, Kenjutsu master, Taekwando master and Black Bear from the Judo club) after Niu arrogantly provoked them by asking them to join the karate club instead. As Ho was about to cancel the challenge Tat insisted Ho to accepted Niu challenge in a dead match and hedge bet that he will train Ho to survive within 3 rounds (in which technically if Niu couldn't kill Ho, he would consider Ho as the winner). Also it was revealed from Niu that Tat used to be a MMA world champion in Chinese Kung Fu defending his title for 10 years with the nickname "Demon muscle man" and also "black star of Karate", before having his leg broken by Niu's sensei during one fateful match and then disappearing into obscurity.

During the one month training, Tat knows that Ho is too physical weak to win in an actual fight and also one month is to short to teach him all the offensive technique, so Tat was going to teach him only the defending technique and also devises a strategy to hold on the 3 rounds. During those training weeks, the reporters and spies only see Ho partying and relaxing comfortable, without doing actual "training". This only unnerves and frustrate Niu more and more, also the spies sometimes see Ho in a dangerously high speed pickup truck swinging back and forth while Ho is trying to cling fast at the back.

In the night of the fight, Lily finally realised that it was Ho that saved her. As she was planning to stop the fight since she knew Ho wouldn't stand a chance, the elevator she was using suddenly broke down and she was stuck in there only relying on the radio to listen to the match.

During the first round, Ho would use intimidation by standing with his back towards Niu while, this making the karate master Niu feeling confused and too careful. It was actually just a ruse to draw out the time in the first round. During the first round, since nothing happened the commentators was forced to spice up the match by reading an excerpt from Jinyong Wuxia novel (later on due to a mishap changed into a erotic novel) or else getting fired from their jobs since their radio and television studio put a lot of money to promote the match.

For the second round, Tat knew that Niu would go into offensive mode, Ho would wear down the karate champion with submissions and sucker punches. While Tat would deliberately distract Niu by juggle with offensive weapons outside the ring.

In the third round, the delivery boy would use the ultimate defensive technique, the "lock", in which the training with the pickup truck was actually a way to teach Ho clinging fast a moving object or opponent. Ho managed to lock Niu the whole 3rd round while being punched by Niu repeately, as Ho was about to release his hands due to weariness and the constant strikes from Niu, the final bell rang. Just then, Lily came to the ring after the elevator was finally repaired, she was relived to see Ho alive and also came to his corner.

Although Ho didn't officially win the match from decision, he personally won the bet against Niu of surviving the 3 rounds. After Ho wins the bet, Niu snaps as he was both enraged of not managed to kill Ho and also seeing Lily congratulate Ho instead of him, he went into a rampage destroying everyone in the ring including the martial art judges and the whole studio.

Until Ho decided to put a stop to Niu violent rampage, he uses the "Invincible Fire Wheel" on a big lottery staircase wheel to defeat him. After defeating Niu, he asks Lily for a date to go to a Leon Lai concert in which she gladly accept.

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From Beijing with Love

2008-02-09T05:36:00.000-08:00

From Beijing With Love (Chinese: 國產凌凌漆; pinyin: Guóchǎn Líng Líng Qī; "home-produced 007") is a 1994 action comedy film directed by Lee Lik Chi and Stephen Chow, a spoof of James Bond movies. It stars Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen and Law Ka Ying.

Synopsis

Golden Gun steals the cranium of China's only dinosaur fossil. Chow, starring as a hawker-cum-agent, is sent to Hong Kong by a high-class government official to recapture the cranium. When he arrives in Hong Kong, he meets Yuen, who proposes to help him in his endeavor. However, Yuen turns out to be a subordinate of Golden Gun. The Golden Gun is in actuality the government official who directed Chow to find the cranium. Golden Gun instructs Yuen to send Chow on a false lead and tell him that the cranium may have been stolen by a smuggler. Chow, with the help of Yuen, sneaks into a party held by the smuggler. Before he enters, he tells Yuen that he will fetch her some white roses. Yuen tells Chow to find evidence that the smuggler stole the cranium; meanwhile, Yuen hides in a tree, planning to snipe Chow from afar. The party is interrupted by a mysterious man (modeled after Jaws from James Bond) and a mysterious woman who are out to kill Chow. Taking this opportunity, Yuen shoots Chow several times, including once in the leg with Chow thinking another assassin has shot him. Chow (who was wearing a bulletproof vest but not bulletproof trousers) escapes, grabbing three white roses on the way out. Yuen is touched by this gesture and saves his life. She decides to defect from Golden Gun. Together, the two destroy the organization that was behind the theft of the cranium. Chow wins over Yuen and is rewarded with a chopper with the calligraphy of the Chinese leader.

Cast

* Stephen Chow - Ling Ling Qi (007)
* Anita Yuen - Li Xiang Qin (the name of a Hong Kong famous actress in Cantonese Opera, featuring mistress of the Emperor)
* Law Ka Ying - Da Wen Xi (Leonardo da Vinci)
* Joe Cheng
* Lee Lik-Chi
* Wong Yat-Fei
* Yu Rong-Guang

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Forbidden City Cop

2008-02-08T19:59:00.000-08:00

Forbidden City Cop (大內密探零零發; lit. "the Imperial Secret Agent 008") is a 1996 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Vincent Kok and the film's star Stephen Chow.

Synopsis

This period comedy revolves around Ling Ling Fat, one fourth of a group of and personal bodyguards of the Emperor. All four agents are known only through their codenames:

* Ling Ling Kung Charles Shen - Somewhat the leader of the group, tall, well-built and toned, he is a master of a form of martial arts known as "metal cloth", where he becomes impervious to most physical attacks, including swords, schmitars, wooden pillars, etc.
* Ling Ling Hei - He has mastered "shattering rock legs", with kicks that are so powerful they can easily destroy stone tablets and pillars.
* Ling Ling Fat Stephen Chow - By far the most incompetent member, he does not know any martial arts, instead spending his time inventing useless gadgets. He works as a gynecologist for his cover when he is not in the Forbidden City.
* Ling Ling Choi - Another martial artist well versed in "five styles fist", including Dragon, Snake, Tiger, Panther, and Crane. He can interchange between each style effortlessly depending on the opponent.

The show begins with Ling Ling Fat spotted some great aged swordmen fighting. One of them gave him a manual. after that, they disappear.

All the for bodyguards show off their talents. When it's Ling Ling Fat's turn, he did nothing in the beginning. It displeased the emperor badly.

Ling Ling Kung the leader felt so embarressed and apologised to the emperor for him failing to discipline Ling Ling Fat. Ling Ling Fat said he had found a weapon to blast off his leader's "metal cloth", blowing him up into pieces.

Ling Ling Kung is very offended. Ling Ling Kung puffs himself up to show off his ripping muscles and strength, telling Ling Ling Fat to do the experiment. In the end, Ling Ling Fat failed. Ling Ling Kung was so afraid if his junior succeed in blowing him up. He checked his body and was relived that he's still alive. The emperor is very angry. Ling Ling Fat tried to please the emperor somemore with his discovery of magnets and the spinning fan. The emperor is not interested. Ling Ling Fat disappointed the emperor further by failing to master the swordsplay that the aged swordsman has given to him.

Because of his incompetence, Ling Ling Fat is banished to menial tasks within the Forbidden City, and is not allowed to speak or even look at the emperor. However, all this changes when he discovers that the emperor has been kidnapped by the Gum Clan, a northern tribe bent on overtaking the rest of China.

The Gum Clan led by Faceless are power thirsty to overtake China. But first they has to finish off the 3 bodyguards of the emperor. On the day of the incident, Fat took his wife out to town to enjoy a day of feast.

Ling Ling Hei was killed by crushing his head; represent by Fat smashing a watermelon into smaller bite piece for his wife. Ling Ling Choi's hands are disabled and then his stomach are ripped open. That's represented by the restaurant waiter ripping a steamed chicken for his guests; Fat and his wife.

The killer who's Faceless's wife had a tough time on killing Ling Ling Kung as no weapon can penetrate him. The tall, muscle lad had 'metal cloth' even on his eyelids. When Ling Ling Kung kicks Faceless's wife to the ground. She saw his weakness. She kicked one of his legs to let him spit his legs apart to tear his pants. Ling Ling Fat screamed with agony as Faceless's wife stabbed his scrotum; represent by breaking two eggs to make scrambled eggs for Fat and his wife. Ling Ling Kung's not showed anymore, presume he's killed.

The scheme by the Gum Clan to overtake China is simple: by luring all of China's doctors and healers to a special autopsy of an alien (clearly a parody of the Roswell incident), they could be slaughtered in one place, thus depriving China of doctors. This allows the Gum Clan to ride south and massacre the emperor's armies with ease.

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God of Cookery

2008-02-08T19:53:00.001-08:00

God of Cookery (食神 Sik San in Cantonese, Shi Shen in Mandarin) is a 1996 Hong Kong comedy film directed by acclaimed Hong Kong comedian, actor and director, Stephen Chow, best known in the west for his films Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle.

God of Cookery is the story of celebrity chef Stephen Chow (Chow, although it is to be noted that the Chinese characters used for Chow's name in the movie is different from the one that Chow uses in real life), who, as it is later revealed, knows very little about cooking himself and is willing to hawk any product for a price. Because of Chow's apparent culinary skills, he is known as the "God of Cookery" and runs a successful business, as well as appearing as a judge for (rigged) culinary competitions.

When rival businessman and accomplished chef Bull Tong (Vincent Kuk), who had posed as a fan, reveals to the world that Chow is a fraud, Chow finds his business empire being taken away from him. Chow begins living on the streets in an area known as Temple Street, where two rival street vendors, Goosehead (Lee Siu-Kei) and Turkey (Karen Mok), conduct gang warfare to see which vendor could sell which of the two best-selling dishes, beef balls and "pissing" shrimp. Chow manages to unite the two rival vendors by combining the two dishes into a new dish, "Pissing Beef Balls", that the three of them could sell together. The dish becomes a huge success, and the vendors convince Chow to enroll in a culinary school in order to reclaim the title he had lost - but not before he discovers that Turkey idolized Chow as the "God of Cookery", and received her scarred appearance due to her devotion.

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Shaolin Soccer

2008-02-08T19:49:00.001-08:00

Shaolin Soccer (traditional Chinese: 少林足球) is a 2001 Hong Kong comedy film co-written and directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the film. It is about a former Shaolin monk who reunites his five fellow disciples, years after their master's death, to apply their superhuman martial art skills to play soccer and bring Shaolin kung fu to the masses.

Synopsis

Shaolin Soccer tells the story of Sing (Stephen Chow), a master of Shaolinquan Kung Fu whose goal in life is to let the world know about the benefits of the ancient art. He experiments with various methods to inform the modern world about shaolin kung-fu,some forms of informing including comedic song and dance routines, all of which bear no positive results. He then meets an old man called Fung (Ng Man Tat), who was a legenday soccer star in his days until his teammate Hung, now a rich businessman, paid him to shave his points. After missing the game-winning penalty kick, Fung's “golden leg” was broken by angry baseball bat-wielding fans (who was later learnt that they were actually hired by Hung) he never played the soccer again due to his disability. On the day that Fung learns the secret of his team-mate's treachery he meets Sing while in a drunken state in front of a shopping centre. Sing tries to explain his desires to promote the modern uses of kung fu to Fung who initially is unconvinced with Sing's idea and brushes off Sing's pleas. Then when Sing kicks a beer can thrown at him by Fung when he unknowingly insults him for being crippled, vanishes into the sky but the old man remains adamant. Later, Fung sees a huge crack in a wall some miles away, only to discover that it was caused by the very same beer can which Sing kicked earlier and is astounded when the wall breaks down when he removes the can due to the force of the impact which Sing kicked the beer can into the brick wall. When the wall falls down, he coincidentally witnesses a fight between Sing and a group of local thugs who often ridicule the Shaolin masters and their kung-fu. After Sing beat the gang in a one-sided fight, nearly destroying a brick wall just by kicking a soccer ball, Fung is hit with an idea and asks if Sing could use kung fu to play soccer. Sing likes the idea and agrees for Fung to become his coach.

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Kung Fu Hustle

2008-02-08T19:44:00.000-08:00

Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese: 功夫; pinyin: Gōngfu) is a 2004 Hong Kong martial arts film co-written, co-produced, directed by and starring Stephen Chow. The film is a humorous parody and a homage to the wuxia genre, and contains most of the characteristics of a typical wuxia movie with exaggerations, serious situations and comic plots. Set in 1930s Shanghai, it is a tale of redemption for the central character, portrayed by Chow, a petty criminal who is trying to join the city's most-powerful gang.

The use of visual effects have been widely acclaimed and the cartoon style of the movie accompanied by traditional Chinese music is its most striking feature. Although the film features the return of a number of retired 1970s actors of Hong Kong action cinema, it is in stark contrast to recent martial arts films that have made an impact in the West, such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.

The film was released on 23 December 2004 after two years of production and received positive reviews from critics. It went on to become the highest grossing film in the history of Hong Kong, and the highest grossing foreign language film in the United States in 2005.

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Minority Report

2008-02-08T19:29:00.000-08:00

Minority Report is a 2002 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name. It is set in Washington D.C. in the year 2054, where a special police department called "pre-crime" apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge, provided by three psychics termed "pre-cogs". The film stars Tom Cruise as John Anderton, a pre-crime officer, who heads the pre-crime police force. Colin Farrell plays Danny Witwer, an agent from the Department of Justice who is sent to observe the process, Samantha Morton portrays the senior pre-cog Agatha, and Max von Sydow plays Lamar Burgess, Anderton's superior. It is one of several films based on stories by Philip K. Dick.

The film cost over $100 million, though it made more than three times that in worldwide box office, and sold at least four million DVDs in its first few months of release. Minority Report was one of the best reviewed films of 2002,[3] and was nominated for and won several awards. These included four Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film and Best Direction. Minority Report also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing. The film has a distinctive look, featuring desaturated colors which make it almost resemble a black-and-white film, yet the blacks and shadows have a high contrast, resembling film noir.

Plot

The film is set in Washington, D.C. in the year 2054. The film opens as Anderton (Tom Cruise) and his team are in the midst of apprehending a suspect. In this sequence, it is revealed that the pre-cogs only relate the time/date of the murder, the murderer's name, and the victim's name. All other facts of the crime, chiefly the location, can only be ascertained by clues given by the various images relayed around the time of murder. Images transfer from the pre-cogs' minds to a computer display, where Anderton manipulates the images in a manner similar to a virtual reality interface to better determine how the murders might or will happen. Anderton is observed during this process by Danny Witwer (Colin Farrell), an agent from the Department of Justice. Witwer is sent to evaluate the system because the country is about to vote on whether to expand the Pre-Crime program nationally.

Later that day Anderton goes to his apartment, where he watches home movies of his six-year old son. It becomes evident that he lost his son, and that he is now divorced. The next morning, Witwer is given a tour of the pre-cogs' chamber. The pre-cogs are seen floating in a translucent substance, which a technician explains helps enhance the images that the pre-cogs produce. After the tour, Anderton stays behind, and the pre-cog Agatha (Morton) emerges from the pool. She draws Anderton's attention to the ceiling, which also displays images from a precog's mind, that is displaying images of a woman being drowned by a masked man. Intrigued by a murder which he's never seen before, Anderton decides to investigate. He learns that the woman, Anne Lively, was drowned in a lake by a John Doe (retinal identification wasn't possible because he had his eyes surgically replaced with new ones). Anderton discovers that the other pre-cogs' images of the murder are on record, but Agatha's recorded images are missing. He then conveys this information to Burgess (Von Sydow), who appears unconcerned.

Anderton then returns to the pre-crime offices and investigates a new case. A murder is to take place in 36 hours. The murderer is revealed to be Anderton himself, and the victim a man named 'Leo Crow'. Believing that he is being set up since he doesn’t know the victim, Anderton takes it on the lam. He manages to escape Witwer and a team of pre-crime officers in a car factory and seeks refuge in the country home of a woman named Iris Hindeman, who was one of the pioneers of pre-crime. Hindeman reveals that the pre-cogs were an accidental discovery. They are the very few surviving children of drug addicted women in a treatment programme, whose violent dreams were found to be echoes of murders which had yet to occur. She tells him that the pre-cogs do not always agree in their opinions about the future; when this happens, the dissenting opinion is ignored. Thus, Anderton's only hope at proving his innocence is acquiring the hidden "minority report" from which the film takes its title.

Travelling undetected is difficult, since everyone is subjected to Eye-Dent iris recognition scans at all times. Therefore, Anderton visits a shady doctor (played by Peter Stormare) and receives an eye transplant. While sleeping to recover from the surgery he has a dream, where it is revealed that his son was abducted. He awakens to discover that the pre-crime team is investigating the building he is in. The team dispatches "spyders," robotic eye scanners, to the various rooms to find and ID Anderton. Anderton tries to hide but is scanned. The surgery proves successful and he is not identified as John Anderton. Later, he manages to reach the pre-crime offices. He takes Agatha out of the nutrient water—permanently disrupting the pre-cog hive mind that makes pre-crime work—and escapes again. Anderton then finds a hacker friend who accesses Agatha's vision of the murder. The vision is identical to the one Anderton intercepted himself.

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Firewall

2008-02-08T19:24:00.000-08:00

Firewall is a 2006 action/thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job. Yet the stranger with a job offer is playing a much more sinister game.
The film opens with Jack Stanfield (Ford) leaving his content, loving wife Beth (Madsen), two children, and a beautiful house to go fulfill his duties as Vice President of Security at Landrock Pacific Bank in downtown Seattle (actually is shot in downtown Vancouver, BC as was most of the film). The day goes smoothly until Jack is visited by a collection agency, claiming that he owes $95,000 in debts to their online gambling site. He trusts a fellow colleague to take care of it (as he is convinced of some form of identity theft) and goes out for dinner with colleague Harry and potential employer, Bill Cox. After the meal, Harry leaves in a taxi and Jack gets in his car. Unexpectedly, Cox follows him into the back seat. Cox then goes on to tell Jack that his family is being held hostage at their home to ensure Jack's cooperation. He then points a gun to Jack's head and forces him to drive home.

Upon their arrival, Jack sees that, although his family is unharmed, they are under heavy watch by Cox's henchmen. Jack is not told what to do until the next morning, when he is told that he must give Cox $10,000 each from the bank's 10,000 largest depositors ($100 million total). He is outfitted with audio and video devices in the form of a pen and a body microphone, making any intentions to resist useless.

Once at work, Cox makes a surprise visit, reintroducing himself as Bill Redmond. Next, Jack gives him a tour of the facilities and security system. On the way back home, Jack attempts to bribe a henchman into betraying Cox, yet this only results in Cox killing the man. The Stanfields attempt an escape, but the plan fails just barely. In retaliation, Cox tricks Andy with a cookie containing nut products. Because he's allergic, Andy suffers from an anaphylactic shock. Cox withholds the treatment to it (an EpiPen) until Jack acquiesces to their plan.

The next day, Cox forces Jack to fire his secretary Janet Stone fearing she is growing suspicious. Jack downloads the files for the $100 million onto his daughter Sarah's iPod mini hard drive and then initiates a wire transfer to send the money to Cox's offshore accounts. Before leaving, Jack uses an employee's camera phone to take a picture of the account information on the screen. Cox then sets about wiping his tracks clean, deleting security data and surveillance tapes and using a virus to put the network on the entire building into disarray, setting Jack up to take the fall for embezzlement. Returning home, Jack finds the house empty except for Liam, one of Cox's men.

Realizing Liam is still around for no reason other than to kill him, Jack turns to survival instinct; he pushes Liam over a chair, grabs a heavy glass blender, and viciously beats him in the head with three blows, killing him. He then tries to call Harry using Liam's unmonitored cell phone but cannot reach his friend. Instead, he sneaks into Harry's apartment to wait for his friend's return. Both Cox and Harry enter. Cox suddenly shoots Harry from behind, using the gun he had earlier confiscated from Jack. Because of this, along with a message planted on Harry's answering machine earlier by Beth as she is held at gunpoint, it appears that Jack killed Harry in a jealous rage over Beth.

Vertical Limit

2008-02-08T19:12:00.000-08:00

Vertical Limit (2000) is an action movie/thriller directed by New Zealander Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) starring, among others, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney and Scott Glenn.

Plot

The film narrates the attempted ascent of K2 by a group of alpinists, led by an ambitious billionaire. But the climbing party gets into serious jeopardy after an avalanche occurs, killing some of the members and trapping others inside a crevasse. At the base, a rescue team is formed to rediscover their buried mates. The undertaking soon becomes a race against time as the victims run out of supplies and medicine against altitude sickness.

Tagline: Hold your breath.

Main cast

* Chris O'Donnell - Peter Garrett
* Robin Tunney - Annie Garrett
* Scott Glenn - Montgomery Wick
* Izabella Scorupco - Monique Aubertine
* Bill Paxton - Elliot Vaughn
* Steve Le Marquand - Cyril Bench
* Ben Mendelsohn- Malcolm Bench

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Universal Soldier The Return

2008-02-08T19:06:00.001-08:00

Universal Soldier: The Return (also known as Universal Soldier II), released in 1999, was the second theatrical film in the Universal Soldier series, following two made-for-TV movies, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business and Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms. The Return was directed by Mic Rodgers and starred Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, professional wrestler Bill Goldberg, Heidi Schanz and Xander Berkeley as Dr. Dylan Kotner. As of 2007 this was the last Van Damme film to have a wide-release in U.S. theatres. It also featured the song "Crush 'Em" by Megadeth.

Plot

Luc Devereux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is now a technical expert who is working with the government with his partner Maggie (Kiana Tom), who's been through countless hours of training and combat with him, to refine and perfect the Unisol program in an effort to make a new, stronger breed of soldier that is more sophisticated, intelligent, and agile.

All of the new Unisols, which are faster and stronger than their predecessors, are connected through an artificially intelligent computer system called SETH (voice of Michael Jai White), a Self-Evolving Thought Helix.

When SETH discovers that the Universal Soldier program is scheduled to be shut down because of budget cuts, he takes matters into his own "hands" to protect himself.

Killing those who try to shut off his power, and unleashing his platoon of super soldiers, led by the musclebound Romeo (Bill Goldberg), SETH spares Deveraux, only because Deveraux has the secret code that is needed to deactivate a built-in program that will shut SETH down in a matter of hours. With the help of Squid (Brent Hinkley), a rogue cyberpunk, SETH takes human form (Michael Jai White).

Not only must Luc contend with ambitious reporter Erin (Heidi Schanz), who won't leave his side, but Luc also must contend with General Radford (Daniel von Bargen) who wants to take extreme measures to stop SETH. SETH has also kidnapped Luc's injured 13-year-old daughter Hillary (Karis Paige Bryant), and is holding her hostage.

Luc is the only person who can rescue Hillary, because Luc knows firsthand how a UniSol thinks, feels, and fights. Luc infiltrates the Unisol building, freezes SETH with liquid hydrogen, then shatters SETH's frozen body, killing SETH, then Luc gets Hillary out of the building just before it explodes and kills Romeo.

Erin punches General Radford for trying to blow up the building while Luc and Hillary were still in it.

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Rambo 4

2008-02-08T18:48:00.000-08:00

Rambo is a 2008 action film starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. Stallone also wrote and directed the film. It is the fourth installment of the Rambo franchise.

Rambo holds the record with the most kills out of the entire Rambo series, with 236 kills and an average of 2.59 kills per minute. Sylvester Stallone has described the film as "sort of like Beyond Rangoon, but with rocket launchers."

Plot

The film opens with newsreels of the crisis in Burma. Burma, under the iron fist rule of Than Shwe, takes harsher stances against the nation's pro-democracy movement. One of the first scenes in the film is of a group of rebels being thrown into a mine-infested marsh and then being gunned down, while a cigarette-smoking Burmese Lt-Colonel gazes grimly at the scene.

The film reveals that, following the events in Rambo III, Rambo returned to Thailand and now resides in a village near the Burmese border. He captures snakes and transports roamers in his boat. A missionary approaches him and asks Rambo to take him and a group of his fellow missionaries up the river to Burma on a humanitarian mission. Rambo refuses, but is convinced by another member, Sarah Miller, to take them up there.

During the ride, they are stopped by pirates who demand Sarah in exchange for passage. After negotiations fail, Rambo kills the men. After the group arrives, another missionary, Michael, says that they will be going out by road and will not need Rambo's help for the return trip. The mission goes well until the Burmese army, led by the cigarette-smoking Lt-Colonel, arrives and brutally attacks the village, killing one missionary and most of the villagers, including women and children. The rest of the group is kidnapped. When the missionaries fail to come back after 10 days, their pastor comes to Rambo (awakening him from a bad dream depicting flashbacks of Colonel Samuel Trautman's words, along with other past traumas), tells him what has happened, and asks for his assistance in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missing missionaries were last seen.

Rambo decides to accompany the mercenaries and pushes them to continue after they see the destroyed village. Hijacking one of the army's trucks they create a plan to save any remaining hostages at the P.O.W. camp. They conduct the mission within 15 minutes to avoid alerting the army. As Rambo, Sarah, and the others escape, the Burmese army discovers that their hostages are missing and sets up a massive man-hunt. Rambo, using his knowledge of guerrilla combat, helps to dwindle the numbers of military personnel giving chase. Other elements of the Burmese army manage to capture all of the mercenaries and missionaries except for Rambo, Sarah, and one other mercenary as the group approachs the river. Just as the group is to be executed, Rambo hijacks a truck-mounted .50-caliber machinegun and engages the Burmese army personnel. Soon after, a group of Karen rebels join the fight and help Rambo and the mercenaries defeat the Burmese army.

Encouraged by Sarah's words (earlier in the film, Sarah asked Rambo if he was curious to see how things have changed back home) Rambo decides to return to the United States. The last scene shows John Rambo walking along a rural highway, walking past a horse farm and a mailbox with the name R. Rambo on it. He makes his way down the dirt driveway of the farm as the credits roll.

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Kill Bill VOL 2

2008-02-08T18:37:00.000-08:00

Volume 2 opens with "The Massacre at Two Pines", taking place a few minutes before the events that open the first volume. Bill tracks down The Bride and her friends as they are gathered for her wedding rehearsal. He is polite and mild-mannered, and even consents to The Bride introducing him as her father to the groom. The Bride begs Bill in private to be able to move on past her assassin life, and Bill seemingly consents. She takes her place at the altar as the other four Deadly Vipers arrive at the chapel, weapons in tow, and kill everyone at the rehearsal.

In the present, Bill ventures to the California desert to talk to his brother and fellow Viper, Budd, code-named "Sidewinder" (Madsen), another former Deadly Viper. Bill warns him that The Bride will come for him next. Budd, now overweight and alcoholic, has put his assassin days behind him, lives in a trailer and works as a bouncer at a local strip club, abused by the management.

The Bride arrives at Budd's trailer that night to take his life. Anticipating her entry, Budd shoots her in the chest with rock salt the moment she opens his door, then injects her with a sedative. Budd calls Elle Driver and offers to sell her The Bride's Hanzō sword for one million dollars. Budd then gives The Bride a "Texas funeral", burying her alive with a flashlight in someone else's grave.

As she lies in her grave, The Bride remembers her early training in China, when Bill took her to the temple of legendary martial arts master Pai Mei (an example of the elderly martial arts master stock character), who used cruelty as a tool for discipline and obedience. Pai Mei could perform a fatal attack called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, which is so secret that he has not even taught it to Bill. Although he "hates Caucasians, despises Americans, and has nothing but contempt for women", he takes The Bride in, and molds her into a formidable fighter. He brutally trains her and she eventually gains his silent respect. In the present, The Bride calls on Pai Mei's training to break out of the coffin and claw her way up to freedom.

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Chinatown

2008-02-08T18:24:00.001-08:00

Chinatown is a 1974 film directed by Roman Polanski featuring many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama. The movie won several high-profile awards, including an Academy Award in 1975 for Best Original Screenplay for Robert Towne.

Chinatown stars Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston and also features a cameo appearance by its director, Roman Polanski. Also appearing in the film are John Hillerman, Diane Ladd, Perry Lopez, James Hong, Joe Mantell, Bruce Glover, Burt Young, and Noble Willingham. The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. A sequel, called The Two Jakes, was released in 1990, starring Jack Nicholson (who also directed it), with a screenplay written by Robert Towne.

Plot

A Los Angeles private investigator named Jake 'J.J' Gittes (Nicholson) is hired to spy on Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer for the city's water department. The woman hiring Gittes claims to be Evelyn Mulwray, Hollis' wife. Mr. Mulwray spends most of his time investigating dry river beds. Mr. Mulwray also has a heated argument with an elderly man. Gittes finally catches Mulwray during an outing with a young blonde and photographs the pair, which becomes a scandal in the press. After the story is published, Gittes learns that the woman who hired him was not the real Evelyn Mulwray.

Clues suggest a scandal in the city government: Despite a serious drought and an expensive proposal to build a new dam, the Water and Power department is dumping fresh water into the ocean at night.

On a tip, Gittes seeks out Mr. Mulwray at a reservoir but finds the police there instead, investigating Hollis Mulwray's death from drowning. When the police speak to Mrs. Mulwray about the death, they assume she hired Gittes, which Gittes corroborates. She thanks him and hires him to investigate what happened to her husband.

Later that night, while breaking into the reservoir's secured area, Gittes is confronted by water department security, Claude Mulvihill, and a thug (a cameo by Polanski himself), who slashes Jake's nose for being a "very nosy fella." Gittes receives a call from Ida Sessions, the woman who was hired to pretend to be Mrs. Mulwray, who suggests that Gittes look at the obituary column. At the water department, Gittes notices photographs of the elderly man Mulwray quarreled with a few days before his death, Noah Cross (Huston). Cross, who is Evelyn Mulwray's father, used to own the water department as Mulwray's business partner. Cross ended his association with the department when the partners sold it to the city.

Cross hires Gittes to find the blonde girl Hollis had been seeing, saying that she might know what happened to him. Acting on a hint from Sessions, Gittes begins to unravel an intricate water scandal. Cross and his partners have been forcing farmers out of their land so they can buy it cheap, after which a newly-built (and controversial) dam and water system would start redirecting much of L.A.'s water supply to that land, dramatically increasing its value. Since Cross wants no record of such transactions, he has partnered with a retirement home community in such a way that many of the eldest residents within (one of whom is mentioned in the obituary column) would legally, but unknowingly, own the land.

Gittes follows Evelyn to a middle-class house and sees Mulwray's girlfriend crying. Evelyn claims this is her sister, who was crying because she had just learned about Hollis' death. Later that night, Sessions is murdered. Escobar points out that the coroner's report proves that salt water was found in Mulwray's lungs even though the body was found in a freshwater reservoir.

Gittes returns to Evelyn's mansion, where he discovers a pair of eyeglasses in a garden saltwater pond. Gittes confronts Evelyn, who reveals that the blonde girl, Katherine, is both her sister and her daughter; Gittes asks Evelyn if her father raped her and she shakes her head, but the suggestion is that he did. Gittes then chooses to help Evelyn escape. Evelyn remembers that the eyeglasses could not have been her husband's because they are bifocals. Gittes arranges for the two women to flee to Mexico and instructs Evelyn to meet him at her butler's address in Chinatown. Evelyn leaves, and Cross arrives with Mulvihill under the pretext that Gittes has found the girl; however, Gittes confronts Cross with the accusation of murder and the glasses. Mulvihill takes away the eyeglasses that are the only physical evidence. Cross forces Gittes to take him to the girl. When Gittes arrives at Evelyn's hiding place in Chinatown, the police are already there.

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Chaos

2008-02-08T18:17:00.000-08:00

Chaos is a 2006 crime film directed by Tony Giglio starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, and Wesley Snipes.

Plot

During a hostage incident on a stormy night, inspector Quentin Conners (Jason Statham) accidentally shoots dead both the criminal and his hostage, a young woman. The victim's being shot dead receives major media attention and the police force swiftly suspends Conners.

Some time afterwards, Lorenz (Wesley Snipes) and four other heavily armed criminals with sophisticated gadgetry take hostages in a bank. They only want to negotiate with the suspended Conners, who is immediately reinstated with full powers. Together with the young inspector Shane Dekker (Ryan Phillippe), whom he doesn't regard highly, Conners takes charge of the crime scene. After an explosion, in which hostages aren't killed, but are let loose, the criminals flee using the ensuing panic and chaos. Later it turns out that a computer program has been installed that transferred one billion dollars: on average 100 dollars from each of 10 million accounts.

While working on the few leads and trying to stay out of each other's face, both Conners and Dekker come to believe different theories. While Conners feels certain the robbery has something to do with the bridge shooting, other than that he sees no other pattern to the chain of events and resorts to the police routine of searching human leads and questioning them. While Dekker senses a design to all the chaos, based on Edward Lorenz's CHAOS THEORY - where seemingly chaotic and unrelated happenings are believed to be linked to each other in a way that is very calculated and systematically being carried out by the one who knows the entire picture.

As the two detectives work together and begin to respect each other, they both realize that they must work together and help each other out ,if they are to get to the end of the chaotic tunnel of events. And as they start their hunt for the truth, they also come to realize that they themselves are being hunted and played with, by the one who see the pattern in this Chaos

Beverly Hills Cop 3

2008-02-08T18:03:00.000-08:00

Beverly Hills Cop III, or Cop III as it was promotionally known, is a 1994 Eddie Murphy motion picture that was directed by John Landis, who had previously worked with Murphy on Trading Places and Coming to America. Judge Reinhold reprises his role as Det. William "Billy" Rosewood.

It was released on 25 May 1994 and grossed a disappointing US$44 million in the United States, but over $75 million in the foreign box office.

Plot

Eddie Murphy's character, Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills once again. This time it's personal: During an assignment, his boss, Inspector Todd gets killed, and certain evidence points towards an amusement park called "Wonderworld". Upon arriving in Beverly Hills, Axel looks up his old friend, Billy Rosewood who has attained the title of DDOJSIOC (Deputy Director of Joint Special Inter Operational Command). Taggart had retired and a new detective called Jon Flint (played by Hector Elizondo) is Rosewood's new partner.

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Beverly Hills Cop 2

2008-02-08T17:59:00.000-08:00

Beverly Hills Cop II is a 1987 live-action film starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Tony Scott. This is the sequel to the 1984 hit Beverly Hills Cop and was followed by Beverly Hills Cop III in 1994.

Paramount had planned a television series based on the 1984 original. Eddie Murphy refused the series but was willing to do a sequel.

Plot

Approximately two years after the original film, Captain (formerly Lieutenant) Bogomil (Ronny Cox), Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and John Taggart (John Ashton) are trying to figure out who is behind the "Alphabet Crimes", a series of mostly high end store robberies distinctive by their monogrammed envelopes with an alphabetical sequence the assailants leave behind. Complicating matters is the new "political" state of the Beverly Hills police, headed by temperamental new police chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), doing everything he can to stay on the Mayor's good side. Unimpressed when Rosewood calls the FBI to help solve the case, he holds Bogomil responsible as commanding officer and suspends him.

On the way home, Bogomil is shot by Karla Fry (Brigitte Nielsen), the chief henchwoman of Maxwell Dent (Jürgen Prochnow). Finding out about the shooting over a news report, Axel (Murphy) immediately drives out to Beverly Hills (covering his absence from his actual job in Detroit by telling his commanding officer he was going "deep deep deep DEEP undercover" on the credit card fraud case he had been assigned to) to help find out who shot Bogomil. Posing as an undercover FBI agent to get past Lutz, Axel soon starts making the connection between the robberies and Dent, who is robbing his own businesses to finance firearms deals. Bogomil was shot due to being on the right track with his investigation into the case. Having foiled a robbery attempt at a bank depository, Axel soon uncovers that Dent is planning on making his getaway. Axel, Billy and Taggert track Dent to where he's making his final arms deal and take everyone down, including Dent and Karla. Although Lutz tries to fire them for their insubordination after arriving at the scene, Billy and Taggert are able to convince the Mayor that they had to work covertly or Lutz would have interfered with their bust if he had been aware of their activities, which the Mayor agreed to fire Lutz because he was tired of his abusive attitude after witnessing Lutzs' actions towards his men earlier. At the end of the film Bogomil is chosen to replace Lutz as the new Chief of Police, and Axel returns back to Detroit.

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Beverly Hills Cop

2008-02-08T17:56:00.000-08:00

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an Academy Award nominated American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. The film shot Murphy to international stardom, won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture (1985) and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical (1985). It earned an estimated US$ 234 million at the box office, narrowly making it the second biggest hit of 1984 (next to Ghostbusters). It was ranked 22 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". For 19 years, Beverly Hills Cop stood as producer Jerry Bruckheimer's highest-grossing film until August 12, 2003, when it was pushed to the Number Two spot by Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Plot

Reckless but talented Detroit policeman Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) conducts an unauthorized sting operation, using a truck full of cigarettes (seized by the police as evidence in another case) to attempt to bust two hustlers. The 'deal' is interrupted by two patrolmen, resulting in one criminal fleeing on foot and the other escaping in the truck, with Axel trapped in the back. After an extensive chase, causing widespread damage, the truck crashes and the other man runs off, leaving Axel empty-handed. At the police station, he is severely reprimanded by his boss, Inspector Todd (Gilbert R. Hill), who informs Axel that if he conducts any further unapproved operations, he will be fired and brought up on charges. Axel goes home to find his best friend Mikey Tandino (James Russo) in his apartment, fresh from a job he got in Beverly Hills working for their mutual childhood friend, Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher). Mikey shows off some German bearer bonds he "borrowed" from his employers, which momentarily concerns Axel, but he is more interested in catching up with his old friend. After a night of drinking, Axel and Mikey return home and are accosted outside Axel's apartment by a burly man Mikey recognizes as Zack (Jonathan Banks). Zack knocks Axel unconscious before he sees anyone, confronts Mikey about the bearer bonds, then shoots him twice in the head. After the police respond, Axel asks Todd to be let in on the case, but Todd flatly refuses. Deciding to secretly root around from a different angle, Axel asks for and is granted two weeks' vacation time.

Axel then drives his "crappy blue Chevy Nova" all the way to Beverly Hills, and, masquerading as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine, manages to check into a suite at the high-end Beverly Palm Hotel. He then meets up with his old friend Jenny, who tells Axel that she and Mikey work for art dealer Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff). Axel finagles his way into Maitland's office, where Zack is shown to be the art dealer's right-hand man. Axel presses Maitland for answers about Mikey, but Maitland has his bodyguards throw Axel out - literally – through a glass window on the main floor.

Outside, Axel is confronted by the Beverly Hills police over a report of disturbing the peace. Finding his gun, they arrest him for possessing a concealed weapon, as he cannot afford to identify himself as a police officer. At the station, he is questioned by Sergeant John Taggart (John Ashton) and Detective Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold). Taggart takes issue with Axel's irreverence and punches him in the stomach. Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) steps in to reprimand Taggart and presses Axel further, adding that he has spoken to Inspector Todd back in Detroit, who hints that Axel will be fired if he finds out that Axel is investigating Mikey's death.

Jenny bails Axel out, and takes him back to the hotel, tailed all the while by Taggart and Rosewood, who have been assigned to watch him. As the detectives watch and wait across the street from the hotel in an unmarked car, Axel places a late supper order with room service to be delivered to them. He then coaxes a waiter (Damon Wayans, in his film debut) to give him some bananas from a party tray, which he stuffs into the unmarked car's tailpipe while Rosewood and Taggart are distracted by the room service waiter. When Jenny and Axel leave the hotel, Taggart and Rosewood try to pursue, but their vehicle stalls, thanks to the bananas in the tailpipe.

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Behind Enemy Lines 2

2008-02-08T17:49:00.000-08:00

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil is a direct-to-video sequel to 2001's Behind Enemy Lines. It is the second installment in the series. The film went directly to video on October 17, 2006.

Plot

The story is not linked to the first part of the series. Instead, it is a fictional explanation for the Ryanggang explosion in 2004, in which an unexplained mushroom cloud occurred in North Korea.

After reconnaissance satellites detect a large, three-stage Topol intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear weapon in North Korea, which can strike anywhere in the continental United States, a fictional United States President Adair T. Manning (Peter Coyote) orders a team of U.S. Navy SEALs to destroy the missile and the launch site. The team is led by Lieutenant Robert James (Nicholas Gonzalez).

The Pentagon aborts the mission after it receives new information, but by the time the abort order is sent, four SEALs, including James, have already parachuted into North Korean territory. When North Korean forces find the SEALs, two of the Navy SEALs are killed in a gun battle, and James and Callaghan are captured and tortured by North Korean troops.

After South Korean special forces rescue James and Callaghan, the US President Manning and the South Korean government send the SEALs and South Korean special forces to destroy the missile site. But after losing radio contact with the SEALs, the President and his top advisers believe that they have been captured again. The President decides to send B-2 stealth bombers to destroy the site, which would start a full-scale war against North Korea. The SEALs and the South Korean special forces destroy the missile silo with a bomb before the bombers reach the missile site, which averts the bombing and prevents a full-scale war from breaking out.

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Battle Royale 2

2008-02-08T17:43:00.000-08:00

Battle Royale II: Requiem (バトル・ロワイアルＩＩ　【鎮魂歌】, Batoru rowaiaru tsū: "Rekuiemu" ), abbreviated as BRII (Bii āru tsū), is a 2003 Japanese, dystopian, action-thriller film. It is a sequel to the 2000 film, Battle Royale, which in turn was based upon a controversial 1999 novel of the same title by Koushun Takami. An extended version of the film is titled Battle Royale II: Revenge.

Director Kinji Fukasaku, who directed the first film, started work on the sequel but died of prostate cancer on January 12, 2003, after shooting only one scene with Takeshi Kitano. His son Kenta Fukasaku, who wrote the screenplay for both films, completed the film in his father's honor.

In the sequel, survivors of previous Battle Royales, led by Shuya Nanahara (the hero of the first film), have formed a terrorist group called "Wild Seven".

As in the first film, a class of teenagers from Shikanotoride Junior High School (鹿之砦中学校 Shikanotoride Chūgakkō) are kidnapped by the Japanese government. Instead of stereotypically studious Japanese students, these ninth graders are “a ragtag collection of delinquents and losers from all over Japan,” including tough-guy rugby players and punks with dyed hair. More importantly, many are orphans whose parents or family died in bombings by Wild Seven. After their school bus is diverted to an army base, the students are herded into a cage, surrounded by armed guards, and confronted by their schoolteacher, Riki Takeuchi, who lays down the ground rules of the new Battle Royale game. Wild Seven is hiding out on a deserted island, and instead of being forced to kill each other, as in the old Battle Royale, the students are ordered to attack the terrorist group’s hideout en masse and kill the leader, Shuya Nanahara, within 72 hours. Most of the kids are not interested in being forced to avenge their families, but are coerced to fight through exploding metal collars, which their captors can detonate by remote control. The students are also put into 'pairs'; if one student dies, then his or her 'pair' will also die because of the metal collars set to a certain frequency.

The movie also makes many references to the USA and their involvement with the world in the future. According to the film, America has bombed several countries over the years because they "don't agree with them", and had the support of the rest of the world.

Once again, Shuya — accompanied by survivors of previous "Games" — must fight to survive.

The film does not use any elements of Takami's novel, save for a few characters.

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Battle Royale

2008-02-08T17:40:00.000-08:00

Battle Royale (バトル・ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru?) is a film released on December 16, 2000, in Japan — based on the novel of the same name — released on April 22, 1999, in Japan. The film was directed by Kinji Fukasaku and written by Kenta Fukasaku, and stars Takeshi Kitano and Tatsuya Fujiwara. Like the novel on which it is based, it aroused much controversy.

A sequel, Battle Royale II: Requiem, followed. The music soundtracks for both movies were composed, arranged and conducted by Masamichi Amano, performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and features pieces of real classical music with some original composition.

The film centers around Shuya Nanahara (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a charismatic young boy living in Kanagawa Prefecture. After his mother abandons him and his father commits suicide, he becomes disillusioned with life. The rest of his classmates are similarly disillusioned, and have little respect for authority. Shuya's best friend, Yoshitoki "Nobu" Kuninobu (Yukihiro Kotani), attacks their teacher Kitano (Takeshi Kitano), but runs away before he can be identified. Noriko Nakagawa (Aki Maeda), a sweet, reserved young girl who happens to witness the incident, hides the knife that Nobu has just attacked Kitano with. Kitano, frustrated, resigns.

The next year, as the students are nearing the end of their compulsory education, they embark on a class trip. On the bus the entire class is gassed, kidnapped, taken to an isolated island, and fitted with metallic collars. Once there, the students are shocked to find that they are inside an abandoned school, and that Kitano (along with the government) is behind the entire operation. Kitano informs them that they have been selected as participants in Battle Royale, a game created by the Millennial Educational Reform Act (better known as the Battle Royale Act) where the students must kill each other until only one is left. One class from the country per year is selected to participate in the program. If, after three days, a winner is not declared, everyone dies by way of the explosive collars attached to each student's neck, which also prevent the students entering certain areas of the field of participation, the idea being to force students to encounter one another. (These instructions are delivered by a cute, smiling girl via a video, who behaves like a kindergarten teacher and refers to herself as their "big sister".) After killing a student, Fumiyo Fujiyoshi, for whispering, Kitano also detonates Nobu's collar, killing him. One by one, each student leaves the school, having been provided with survival packs and a random weapon.

Some students refuse to play the game. Shuya, grieving over Nobu's death, decides to take it upon himself to protect Noriko, the object of Nobu's affection. The pair eventually team up with Shogo Kawada (Taro Yamamoto), a seasoned warrior and Kobe native with an agenda (he reveals that he is out to avenge the death of his girlfriend, Keiko Onuki, who sacrificed herself for him in a previous game). Elsewhere, class president Yukie Utsumi (Eri Ishikawa) gathers up a group of girls and decides to hide in an abandoned lighthouse, while junior revolutionary Shinji Mimura (Takashi Tsukamoto) gathers his friends and plans to blow up the school (along with Kitano), thereby liberating the students.

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Bad Boys

2008-02-08T17:31:00.000-08:00

Bad Boys is a 1995 action comedy film, directed by Michael Bay and starring Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The film also spawned a 2003 sequel, Bad Boys II.

Plot

Detective Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Detective Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are detective sergeants in the Miami Police Department. While Lowrey is from a wealthy background and enjoys a playboy-like lifestyle, Burnett is married with three kids.

One night, $100 million of seized heroin is stolen by gangsters from a secure police vault. This was a major blow to Burnett and Lowrey, because it was the biggest drug bust of their careers. Now they are faced with an ultimatum from Internal Affairs—if they do not get the drugs back in five days, the narcotics division will be shut down. In the course of the investigation, it is discovered that one of the gang members, Eddie Domínguez, a former cop, has absconded with some of the heroin. Dominguez is shot to death by a French drug kingpin by the name of Fouchet (Tchéky Karyo), who also kills escort girl Max, one of Lowrey's ex-girlfriends. The only witness to the crime is Max' roommate Julie Mott (Téa Leoni).

Julie will only testify to Lowrey, who is temporarily absent, so Burnett is forced to impersonate him in order to get her to co-operate. In order to continue the deception Burnett moves Julie into Lowrey's apartment, where he himself has to move into while Lowrey moves in with Burnett's family and claims to be Burnett in Julie's presence while Burnett claims to be Lowrey.

Meanwhile, Fouchet and his gang of criminals kidnapped Julie. Burnett, Lowrey and the Miami P.D. organize a team of commandos to stop the criminals from killing Julie and selling the drugs to a Colombian drug lord. A final shoot-out erupts between Burnett, Lowrey and the drug dealers. The criminals are eliminated, Julie is saved in the process and Lowrey kills Fouchet.

Bad Boys 2

2008-02-08T17:22:00.000-08:00

Bad Boys II is a 2003 action comedy film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. It stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. It is a sequel to the 1995 film Bad Boys.
n this sequel Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) are now detective lieutenants of the Tactical Narcotics Team of Miami PD. They are investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami after breaking up a Ku Klux Klan rally wherein Lowrey accidentally shoots Burnett in the buttocks which, combined with Lowrey's apparent propensity for violence, becomes a point of contention between the two throughout most of the film.

Their search leads to a dangerous and neurotic Cuban kingpin named Johnny Tapia (Jordi Mollà), whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has sparked an underground war between Tapias crew and the Russian Mob.

Meanwhile there is a relationship between Lowrey and Burnett's sister, Syd (Gabrielle Union), who also happens to be undercover with the DEA. Syd has gone undercover as a banker for one of Tapia's associates. When the deal goes awry after a Haitian gang ambush, Burnett and Lowrey save Syd during a spectacular gun battle/freeway chase. When they ask Syd what she was doing being involved in the case, she refuses to tell them about it because she is under strict orders from the DEA not to discuss any information with the Miami Police Department because they have been reported to have too many leaks. In an unfortunate turn of events, Syd is captured by Johnny Tapia and taken to Cuba.

When the DEA refuses to take any action, Burnett and Lowrey along with their team of mostly ex-Delta commandos, prepare a plan to recover Syd from Tapia's capture. They construct two tunnels from a safe house owned by Lowrey and Burnett's colleague's brother (a member of Alpha 66) located directly opposite Tapia's mansion in Cuba. The first tunnel would allow several members from their team to surface in the garden of the mansion and take out the security room on the side of the mansion. The second tunnel intercepted the escape tunnel from the mansion in the case that Tapia planned to escape or if the CIA and other team members needed to escape, they could leave through an alternative route.

A RC car with video cameras attached to the top moves around the garden along the pool line to a group of soldiers who are playing Football. After attracting the curiosity of the soldiers, the vehicle explodes blowing the soldiers into the air.

A long gunfight ensues and eventually the Cuban military arrive outnumbering the team. An explosive named "Tapia house gift" is placed in the house and is detonated, destroying the house. However, the explosion cuts Burnett and Lowrey from their escape route and they come under fire from the Cuban military. Lowrey says they should resort to "Plan B" which had not been discussed or outlined. After a short-lived argument between Burnett and Lowrey, Syd encourages them to stop fighting and get on with it.

Cast

* Martin Lawrence as Detective Marcus Burnett
* Will Smith as Detective Mike Lowrey
* Jordi Mollà as Hector "Johnny" Juan Tapia
* Gabrielle Union as Syd
* Peter Stormare as Alexei
* Theresa Randle as Theresa
* Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard
* Jason Manuel Olazabal as Vargas
* Yul Vazquez as Reyes
* Kiko Ellsworth as Blondie Dreads
* Henry Rollins as TNT Leader
* Dan Marino as himself

Assault on Precinct 13

2008-02-08T17:13:00.000-08:00

Assault on Precinct 13 is a 2005 action / thriller movie, directed by Jean-François Richet. It is a loose remake of the 1976 movie of the same name by John Carpenter, with an updated plot, and was distributed and produced by Rogue Pictures.

Plot

With only a few hours until the new year, Detroit's oldest police station, Precinct 13, is about to close forever. Only a few officers are on duty for New Year's Eve, including Sergeant Jake Roenick (played by Hawke). Roenick is haunted by a botched undercover operation from eight months before that resulted in the death of the other two members of his team.

Meanwhile, crime lord Marion Bishop (played by Fishburne) is arrested after a confrontation results in the death of an undercover officer. Bishop is put on a prison bus with three other criminals. A raging snowstorm and treacherous road conditions force the bus driver to make a detour to Precinct 13, where the prisoners are to be held until the storm is over.

New Year's celebrations at the precinct are cut short, however, as the officers find themselves under siege from an elite team of masked gunmen, who are believed to be trying to extract Bishop. All of the precinct's occupants become targets once the gunmen's identities become apparent: they are a gang of crooked police officers led by Marcus Duvall (played by Gabriel Byrne), head of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Squad. The group is in fact trying to kill Bishop to prevent him from testifying against its corrupt activities.

The police officers inside the precinct have to release the criminals and join forces with them to have any chance of staying alive, as more and more corrupt officers surround the precinct and the inhabitants find themselves pitted against street cops, snipers and even a large SWAT unit.

American Gun

2008-02-08T17:01:00.000-08:00

American Gun is a 2002 drama written and directed by Alan Jacobs. It stars James Coburn, Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain and Alexandra Holden. This would be the last film to star James before his death of a heart attack in November 18, 2002.

The film tells the story of Martin Tillman (Coburn), a World War II veteran on a cross-country journey to trace the origin of the gun used to kill his daughter Penny (Madsen). On the way he seeks for his granddaughter Mia (Holden). Martin's wife Anne is played by Bain.

Airwolf

2008-02-08T16:55:00.000-08:00

Plot Summary: A scientist who has created a super helicopter has defected to Libya and taken the machine with him. A secretive government agency hires an ex-Vietnam War pilot to go to Libya, steal the chopper and bring it back.

After the Sunset

2008-02-08T16:51:00.000-08:00

After the Sunset is a 2004 comedy/action movie, starring Pierce Brosnan as Max Burdett, a master thief caught in a cat-and-mouse game with FBI agent Stan Lloyd played by Woody Harrelson. The film was shot in The Bahamas.

Synopsis

After the Sunset begins with master thieves Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and his accomplice, Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), retiring to Paradise Island in the Bahamas after one last big score, having lifted the second of the three famous Napoleon diamonds. Their financial future is set, their career in crime a thing of the past. However, Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson), the FBI agent who has spent seven years doggedly pursuing Burdett, only to be foiled time after time, refuses to believe their retreat into domesticity. After a few months, Lloyd shows up, accusing Burdett of hiding out in the same place where a cruise ship is displaying another large rare diamond, the third of a set of diamonds that he stole. He thinks the two are planning to lift the third Napoleon diamond, one of the three largest non-flawed diamonds in the world.

When the two adversaries meet up in paradise, Burdet unwittingly turns the tables and befriends the frustrated detective, showing him the pleasures that Paradise Island has to offer. Stan, out of his element, adapts quickly to the easy-going Caribbean lifestyle. Despite his pleas of innocence and placing Lloyd in first-class accommodations to show how he doesn't need to steal anything, Burdett's curiosity gets the better of him and he starts casing the ship. However, not only does Lola suspect that he's ready for ‘one more’ job, so does the local thug, Henri Mooré (Don Cheadle), who threatens Max to steal the diamond for him.

Cast

* Pierce Brosnan … Max Burdett
* Salma Hayek … Lola Cirillo
* Woody Harrelson … Stan Lloyd
* Don Cheadle … Henri Mooré
* Naomie Harris … Sophie

Afghan Knights

2008-02-08T16:45:00.000-08:00

Haunted by the fact that he left a man behind in Afghanistan, a soldier (Bacic) pulls together a special task force to save his comrade.

7 Seconds

2008-02-08T16:27:00.001-08:00

7 Seconds is a 2005 action film, starring Wesley Snipes and Tamzin Outhwaite. The film was directed by Simon Fellows and written by Martin Wheeler. It was released Direct-to-DVD on June 28, 2005.

The title refers to the timers at the beginning of the film, which are set at 00:07 (7 seconds).

Plot

After professional thief Jack Tulliver (Snipes) and his crew pull off a meticulously planned armoured car heist, they are ambushed by another group of thieves, who kill most of Tulliver's crew but are unable to kill Tulliver before he escapes. After carjacking Sgt. Kelly Anders' (Outhwaite) sedan, he makes a getaway, but leaves Anders under suspicion from her fellow officers. Meanwhile, Tulliver must save a team member who has been captured by a sadistic millionaire who is in charge of the group which ambushed Tulliver. All of this reveals what is in the case, and why it is under such demand.

2012 Doomsday

2008-02-08T16:19:00.000-08:00

Doomsday is an upcoming science fiction film written and directed by Neil Marshall. The film stars Rhona Mitra and Bob Hoskins. Doomsday is set to be released in March 14, 2008 in the USA.
Synopsis

Doomsday takes place three decades after a lethal virus called the Reaper nearly wipes out Scotland and causes the rest of the world to wall off the country. When the Reaper begins to emerge in another country 25 years later, an elite team and their leader (Rhona Mitra) are sent to the contaminated landscape of the walled-off country to find a cure.

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2000 AD

2008-02-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

2000 AD (simplified Chinese: 公元2000) is a 2000 action film directed by Gordon Chan and co-produced by Hong Kong's Media Asia Films and People's Production Limited, and Singapore's Mediacorp Raintree Pictures. The film was shot on location in both cities and was timed to screeen during the peak Chinese New Year period.
Plot

The movie begins with a routine exercise by the Republic of Singapore Air Force to test the integrity of their computer defence system. A private passenger plane belonging to a company called TDX arriving in Singapore is shot down by a missile under instruction by a rouge agent from the Central Intelligence Agency, Kelvin Woo. The plane was carrying the President and Department head from the company who were intending to investigate a stolen computer protection system they were working on. Kelvin has enlisted Alex, a geek, to implant a bug into the computer systems of the First National Bank, but was informed by him that he requires a "Caller Program" to wipe out the computer systems before they can rob the bank.
Colonel Ng and his assistant engages Major Eric Ong (right) for the first time. Major Ong is shown in a tactical unit uniform with a rank of Assistant Superintendent, but was referred to as a Major, a military rank, in the film.
Colonel Ng and his assistant engages Major Eric Ong (right) for the first time. Major Ong is shown in a tactical unit uniform with a rank of Assistant Superintendent, but was referred to as a Major, a military rank, in the film.

Colonel Ng, head of the Army's Information Warfare Unit, engages Major Eric Ong from the Singapore Police Force in an effort to investigate the matter independently from the US authorities. The US authorities believes the plane incident was related to a computer spy ring, and lists Greg as a suspect. Eric is dispatched to Hong Kong as an observer, but is instructed not to be directly involvement in any dealings there to avoid complications with the Americans. Over in Hong Kong, Peter Li and his brother Greg Li are computer programmers. Peter's girlfriend, Janet, and her brother, Bobby, lives with them. Greg Li meets the Vice President of TDX, and teleconferences with his girlfriend, Salina, who was in the United States. Salina informs him that her office was raided by the CIA.

Ronald Ng of the Hong Kong Police Force Government Security Unit leads a raid at Greg's residence, with members of the CIA, including Kelvin and his accomplice. Eric witnesses the raid from the road outside. While searching his home, The accomplice triggers an electric-ion bomb which disabled the police's radio and the electrical systems. Both Greg and Peter were brought to the station, where an American diplomat interrogates Greg while Ronald listens in despite the displeasure of Woo. It was revealed that Greg is an undercover CIA agent, and has asked for help from the embassy. Greg informs that he suspects the CIA's system was invaded, and that the TDX may be implicated. When pressed for evidence, Kelvin informed that any information in Greg's computer has been wiped out by the electric-ion bomb. Peter was released, while Greg was arranged to depart for the United States.

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Sudden Death

2008-02-08T09:41:00.001-08:00

Sudden Death is a 1995 action movie, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. It also features Powers Boothe, Dorian Harewood and Raymond J. Barry, and is directed by Peter Hyams. It has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Plot

Darren McCord (Van Damme) is a Canadian-born former firefighter who was disgraced a couple years earlier when he was unable to save a little girl from a house fire. While attending Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals with his daughter Emily and his son Tyler, to the dismay of his ex-wife, he discovers that everyone inside the Civic Arena is being held hostage by a group led by Joshua Foss (Boothe, whose character's name is never mentioned), a former United States government employee who is holding Vice President of the United States Daniel Binder (Barry) and several others at gunpoint. McCord's daughter is eventually kidnapped and placed with these hostages. Foss has the arena wired with explosives, and plans to blow it up at the end of the game while having hundreds of millions of dollars wired into several off-shore accounts. McCord must not just stop Foss, but somehow send the game into overtime and save his children simultaneously.

McCord is first pulled into the plot when Emily is kidnapped by a hitwoman disguised as Iceburgh, the Pittsburgh Penguins' mascot. Emily sees the woman kill several people, and when her gun runs out of ammo the woman puts Emily with the other hostages. McCord, who had given pursuit but lost his quarry at the private elevator to the owner's box, is left to search in vain. The hitwoman returns to deal with McCord and a long fistfight breaks out. The woman is more than a match for McCord, who is severely beaten but manages to kill the woman by kicking her into a large dishwasher, which pulls on her penguin's head strap and strangles her.

McCord goes and finds a security guard, but this man is a thug in disguise. McCord easily gets the upper hand this time, though, and forces information out of the thug before stabbing him in the neck with a chicken bone. McCord heads up to the executive offices and finds a mobile phone, with which he calls the police. They put him in touch with Secret Service Agent Matthew Hallmark (Dorian Harewood), who advises that McCord stand by while the agents take charge. McCord angrily refuses, saying that he will handle this himself.

The Secret Service and their assisting police officers make several attempts to storm the arena, with various degrees of failure. Meanwhile, McCord manages to find a few of the bombs and disable them, whilst Foss goes about killing a couple of hostages. Eventually Hallmark manages to sneak inside and meet with McCord. It quickly transpires that Hallmark is yet another puppet of Foss', influenced by money. McCord dispatches Hallmark and uses his phone to contact Foss, who taunts McCord with the power he has over Emily.

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Universal Soldier

2008-02-08T09:37:00.001-08:00

The 1992 science fiction film Universal Soldier, directed by Roland Emmerich, stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as soldiers who kill each other in Vietnam but are reanimated in a secret Army project along with a large group of other previously dead soldiers.

The film was followed by two television movie sequels in 1998—Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms and Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business—with an all new cast.

In 1999 a theatrical sequel, Universal Soldier: The Return, was released that ignored the television films, with only Van Damme returning from the original film.

Plot

Near the end of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, an American military squad receives orders to secure a village against North Vietnamese forces. Pvt. Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) comes to find the members of his squad and various villagers dead with their ears missing. His comrade in arms, Sgt. Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) is the cause of this, having gone murderously insane. Deveraux finds that Scott, while holding up a string of severed ears, is also holding a young boy and girl hostage. Deveraux tries to reason with Scott, saying that the war is over. Scott becomes infuriated and shoots the boy in front of him, then orders Deveraux to shoot the girl in order to prove his loyalty.

Deveraux refuses and stops Scott from shooting the girl. The girl attempts to escape, but Scott throws a grenade at her, killing her. Luc and Scott shoot each other and both are killed. The next morning, a Special Ops squad finds their bodies and the Commanding Officer of the squad gives the medics orders to "bag their bodies in ice."

Jumping to modern day, terrorists have taken over the Hoover Dam and the police agencies are ordered not to intervene or make any attempt to rescue the hostages. Instead, the Universal Soldiers (or "UniSols"), an elite counter terrorism unit, are called with Deveraux (now designated "GR44") and Scott (now designated "GR13") among this team. They apparently have been revived with no memory of their previous lives. Deveraux has flashbacks of his previous life, including a deleted scene in which he meets a Vietnamese bar girl at a Vietnamese bar called "LUCKY'S".

Deveraux and Scott are sent in to dispatch several of the terrorists, with Deveraux using efficient means, but Scott using excessive force. Their camera feeds sent back to the command post garners concern with the project technicians, suggesting that despite being emotional blank slates, Scott is actually enjoying it. As the UniSols infiltrate the area, they demonstrate their superior training and physical abilities, as one of them is shown surviving close-range automatic gunfire.

After the area is secure, Deveraux begins to regain memory from his former life after seeing two of the hostages who resemble the villagers he tried to save back in Vietnam. Turning around, he looks upon the face of Scott (who is also experiencing the same memory) but as a Unisol, he doesn't say anything. This causes him to ignore radio commands from the control team.

Back in the mobile command center, the Unisol technician team are trying to figure out what happened at the Hoover Dam incident. They reveal that the UniSols have enhanced healing abilities and superior strength but also have a tendency to overheat and shut down. It is also revealed that they are given a neural serum to keep their minds under control and their previous memories suppressed. All of the UniSols are then ordered to go back into their cooling units and inject themselves with the serum.

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Sinav

2008-02-08T09:30:00.001-08:00

Sınav (English: The Exam) is a 2006 Turkish comedy-drama directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, the director of G.O.R.A.

Plot

Five friends (Mert, Sinan, Gamze, Kaan and Uluç) are set to sit for the daunting nationwide university entry exam. Desperate to get a passing grade, they try to pool their resources together and enlist the services of a professional thief/assassin (Charles) for hire to steal the papers.

All five of them have good reasons to do so. For Mert, it is essential to get into university, as he promised to his mother dying of cancer. He is the head of the family, working hard to make a living, he stopped attending school. Because of that, Mert surely cannot pass the entrance exam, so he needs to find other ways. He is in love with Gamze, whom he had cheated on before and so the girl doesn't approve of him anymore. Gamze's parents are in a continuous fight with each other which frustrates the young girl, making her want to flee from home - she needs to get into a university. Sinan's police officer father treats him badly, sure if he cannot pass the exam his cruel father would beat him up. The honest and good student Kaan is under pressure also by his family who want him to be a doctor - but however much he works it is never enough for his maximalist father, not to mention Kaan doesn't want to be a doctor but rather would like to become a bass guitarist. Uluç's father is always telling his son to study, not to become a poor man like himself.

First the friends try the legal way of getting things done: study. But however hard they study, they cannot please their parents. It seems to be impossible to study for their lessons and for the exam as well, which demands different knowledge. They - and especially outcast Mert - are also harassed by the corrupt headmaster, Rafet, who only wants to make as much money out of extra lessons given to the students, as much is possible. The only person who wants to do good for the school is Zeynep, the assistant of the headmaster.

The friends finally decide to steal the Mathematics test from the teacher's bag, when she is out to lunch. They precisely plan the operation and finally succeed. Nonetheless they discover that this won't help them at the ÖSS, the university entrance exam. So Sinan, frustrated by his policeman father's corruptness, tells the others to plan the stealth of the exam papers as well. First they visit a former student of their school, Levent, who has become a famous and weealthy man and was rumoured to have been close to steal the ÖSS exam papers. He senses their plans and tells them off, offering the worried Zeynep his help to teach a lesson to the guys. So the heroes have to find another way.

Cast

* Jean-Claude Van Damme (Charles)
* Yağmur Atacan (Sinan)
* İsmail Hacıoğlu (Mert)
* Rüya Önal (Gamze)
* Tuba Büyüküstün (Zeynep Erez)
* Caner Özyurtlu (Kaan)
* Altan Erkekli (Almancı Sedat)
* Volkan Demirok (Uluç)
* Güven Kıraç (Rafet 69)
* Altan Erkekli (Almancı Sedat)
* Itır Esen (Anna)
* Okan Bayülgen (Levent)

Second in Command

2008-02-08T09:24:00.000-08:00

Second in Command is a 2006 action film directed by Simon Fellows, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. It was released direct-to-video in the United States, Belgium, and Germany on May 2, 2006. It has been rated R by the MPAA for violence and some language. The film was made in Bucharest, Romania.

Plot Summary

Navy Commander Sam Keenan (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a decorated U.S. Navy SEAL, sent to the Eastern European nation of Moldavia. Keenan is sent to the U.S. Embassy in Moldavia's capital city to become the new Security Attaché there.

When he arrives, Keenan learns that Moldavia is in the middle of a civil war. At the embassy, Keenan meets with Ambassador George Norland (Colin Stinton), who makes Keenan the deputy ambassador.

Recently, the U.S. installed a new government into Moldavia, and it's a government led by Moldavia's newly-elected president Yuri Amirev (Serban Celea).

Amirev wants the nation to be run as a democracy, but under the command of Anton Tavarov (Velibor Topic), Communist insurgents have caused a riot at the presidential palace, threatening the fragile democracy.

The insurgents are loyal to dictative former president Alexei Kirilov (Costel Lupea), who is a communist who abused Moldavia's people.

When the palace guards start firing on the insurgents without Amirev's go-ahead, the insurgents storm the palace, demanding Amirev's head.

Keenan volunteers to bring Amirev to the embassy. But events reach critical mass, and the insurgents open fire. Keenan barely makes it back with Amirev, but the fight isn't over yet.

Fifty Americans are holed up in the embassy, and Tavarov and his massive army have arrived at the gates, with plans to crash the building and drag Amirev out by any means necessary. And Norland is killed by a rocket that was launched by one of Tavarov's men.

To defend the embassy, Keenan has only 15 Marines, CIA bureaucrat Frank Gaines (William Tapley), limited ammunition, and his martial arts skills to hold Tavarov's army off until American reinforcements arrive. And Keenan's girlfriend, reporter Michelle Whitman (Julie Cox), is one of the hostages.

With Tavarov's crew getting in position for attack, a power struggle taking place between Keenan and Gaines, and help hours away, it will fall to Keenan to rescue the hostages

Main Cast

* Jean-Claude Van Damme as Commander Sam Keenan
* William Tapley as Frank Gaines
* Julie Cox as Michelle Whitman
* Alan Mckenna as Frank Baldwin
* Razvan Oprea as Devereaux
* Serban Celea as President Yuri Amirev
* Razaaq Adoti as Gunnery Sergeant Earl "Gunny" Darnell
* Warren Derosa as Mike Shustec

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Bruce Lee The Chinese Connection

2008-02-08T08:52:00.000-08:00

Fist of Fury (simplified Chinese: 精武门; traditional Chinese: 精武門; pinyin: Jīng wǔ mén; formerly known as The Chinese Connection in the United States, and not to be confused with Fists of Fury, which is the former US title of The Big Boss) was a Hong Kong film directed by Lo Wei in 1972. It starred the martial artist Bruce Lee in his second major film after The Big Boss. The film depicts a Chinese martial arts school in Shanghai which fought against a Japanese karate school.

Background

The film is loosely based on Chin Woo Athletic Association, the actual school from which the film took its Chinese title. The plot features the story of Chen Zhen (陳真; Cantonese: Chen Jen, played by Bruce Lee), a fictional character created by director Lo Wei for the film.[2] Chen Zhen is shown as a student of the real-life martial artist Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲; Cantonese: Fok Yun Gap) who, after the mysterious death of Huo, fought the Hongkou Dojo of Suzuki Taro.

The film is set in the 1930's, during the occupation of Shanghai, China by several foreign countries, including Japan. It is about a Chinese Martial Arts school whose master (Huo) was recently killed by men associated with a rival Japanese Martial Arts School who continue to harass them. Chen is out to find out who is responsible for his master's death and get justice.

The film is famous for the scene in which Chen Zhen is denied entry into a park bearing a sign stating "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed" (Traditional Chinese: 「狗與華人不得入內」). After the turban wearing Sikh guard at the park allowed a foreigner's dog to enter the park, a man out of a group of Japanese approached Chen and told him that if he pretends as a dog then he will take him inside the park. Chen became furious and proceeded to attack the Japanese with punches and kicks. After that, he kicked the offending sign in the air and broke it with a flying kick.

The former U.S. title The Chinese Connection, trading off the popularity of the recently-released Gene Hackman film The French Connection, was originally intended for Bruce Lee's previous film, The Big Boss, due to the drugs theme of that movie. However, the U.S. titles for the films were accidentally swapped for an unknown reason so this film carried the title The Chinese Connection until 2005, despite being obviously unrelated to the content of the movie. The Big Boss in the U.S. had the title Fists of Fury, leading to much confusion. Recent American TV showings and the current official US DVD release from Twentieth Century-Fox have restored the original titles of all the renamed Bruce Lee films; this film is now officially called Fist of Fury in the United States.

This film is one of Bruce Lee's most influential works, as it is one of the main reasons behind the shift in Hong Kong cinema from swordplay to empty-handed fighting, which initiated the "Golden era of Kung Fu Cinema" of the 1970s.

Cast

* Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen
* Nora Miao as Yuan Le-erh
* James Tien Chun as Fan Chun-hsia
* Feng Tien as Fan
* Paul Wei Ping-ao as Hu
* Maria Yi as Yen
* Lee Quin as Hsu
* Lo Wei as Inspector
* Hwong Chung Hsin as Tien
* Han Yin-chieh as Feng Kwai-sher
* Feng Wi as Yoshida
* Tony Liu as Chin
* Chin San as Tung
* Riki Hashimoto as Hiroshi Suzuki "Mr. Suzuki"
* Robert Baker as Petrov "The Russian"
* Lam Ching Ying (Stuntman)
* Jackie Chan (Stuntman) (uncredited)

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Black Mask

2008-02-08T06:12:00.000-08:00

Black Mask (Chinese: 黑俠) is a 1996 Hong Kong action film starring Jet Li, Karen Mok and Anthony Wong Chau-Sang. It was directed by Daniel Lee and was produced by Tsui Hark.

The movie is based an adapted version of the 1992 manhua of the same name. It was later followed by a 2002 sequel, Black Mask 2: City of Masks.

Story

The film concerns a man named Tsui Chik (Michael in the American version), who tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project, and when he discovers that other test subjects have begun a violent crime spree that the police are helpless to stop, he sets out to stop them himself by donning a disguise and using the superhero alias of "Black Mask". Having lost the ability to feel pain due to experiments performed on him by the military, Black Mask is nigh invulnerable.

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The Contract Killer

2008-02-08T06:09:00.000-08:00

Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon, but things complicate when the tycoon is killed and he is forced to ally with a misfortunate hitman to find the "King of the Hitman." Written by ravedragon

When an old Japanese tycoon suspects that he may be murdered, he establishes a huge reward fund for the person who will find his killer. When the old man is killed, out-of-luck con man (Eric Tsang) and struggling "newbie' hitman (Jet Li) band together in hope of a big payday as they try to discover the identity of the "King of the Hitmen." Written by RangerMode

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Kiss of the Dragon

2008-02-08T06:06:00.000-08:00

Kiss of the Dragon is a 2001 action/thriller film, directed by Chris Nahon and starring Jet Li. The film is notable because most of the action sequences were done with little use of CGI or wire work. The only use of CGI and wire work was in the hotel scene where Jet Li roundhouse kicked a snooker ball at the chauffer's head. The director even claims to have had to slow a scene down as the combatants were moving too fast for the camera.

Plot

Liu Jian, a Chinese intelligence agent, is sent and assigned to Paris to help apprehend a Chinese gangster involved in heroin smuggling. However, Liu is just a scapegoat for Jean-Pierre Richard, a corrupt and violent French police inspector who brutally kills the gangster; framing Liu for murder in the process.

Liu keeps a low profile while trying to escape, and he meets up with Jessica, an American woman who was forced into prostitution by Richard. Jessica is able to prove Liu's innocence, but Richard anticipates this and kidnaps Jessica's young daughter. With no other choice, Liu launches a counterattack on his pursuers, and combats them in an attempt to clear his name.

The title "Kiss of the Dragon" is derived from one of the last scenes in the movie, in which Liu punctures Richard in the back of the neck with an acupuncture needle at a "very forbidden" certain point. The puncture itself is called "kiss of the dragon," and it paralyzes Richard and traps all the blood in his body in his head. This causes Richard to bleed, using Liu's words, "from your nose, from your ears, even from your eyes" before dying painfully.

This method of killing, delivering a needle into the back of the head to cause paralysis and death (though without the haemorrhage), was featured in the climactic scene of the 1970s science fiction novel "The Face", by Jack Vance. In this novel, however, the needle bore a poison which did the work.

Cast

* Jet Li — Liu Jian
* Bridget Fonda — Jessica
* Tchéky Karyo — Richard
* Max Ryan — Lupo
* Ric Young — Mister Big
* Burt Kwouk — Uncle Tai
* Laurence Ashley — Aja
* Cyril Raffaelli — Twin
* Didier Azoulay — Twin
* John Forgeham — Max
* Paul Barrett — Pilot
* Colin Prince — Lupo's Assistant
* Vincent Glo — Pluto
* Vincent Wong — Minister Tang
* Kentaro Sato — Chen

War

2008-02-08T06:04:00.000-08:00

War is an 2007 action/thriller film, directed by Phillip Atwell with fight choreography by Corey Yuen. The film was released on August 24, 2007 and was rated R by the MPAA for "sequences of strong bloody violence, sexuality/nudity and language". The film stars Jet Li and Jason Statham. Its working title was Rogue; it was changed to avoid conflict with another film with the same name. It was re-titled as 'Rogue Assassin' in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Philippines and several European countries.

Plot

During a shootout against Chinese Triads at a dock warehouse, FBI agents Jack Crawford (Jason Statham) and Tom Lone (Terry Chen) stumble across the notorious assassin Rogue (Jet Li), a former CIA assassin who now works for the Japanese Yakuza. Rogue ambushes Crawford and is about to execute him when Lone appears and shoots Rogue in the face, causing him to fall into the water and disappear. Later investigations came up short into finding Rogue's body, opening up the possibility he may still be alive. In retaliation, Rogue appears at Lone's house where he kills him and his wife and daughter. A devastated Crawford seeks revenge for his friend; however, Rogue disappeared. Three years pass and Rogue reappears.

Around the same time, Rogue appears to be working under Chinese Triad boss Chang (John Lone). Rogue is assisting Chang against Chang's arch-enemy and Rogue's former employer, the leader of the Japanese Yakuza, Shiro (Ryo Ishibashi). Rogue's task is to recover a pair of antique gold horses, family heirlooms of Chang that were stolen by Shiro many years ago. However, Rogue is secretly setting the Yakuza and the Triads against each other, in order to push the two sides towards all-out war.

Crawford, now the head agent of the FBI's Asia Crime Task Force, is determined to hunt Rogue down and exact revenge for his partner Lone's death. Crawford's pursuit of Rogue has taken a toll on his personal life; he is now separated from his wife, and is so obsessed with his work that he is unable to have a stable family life. Crawford pursues Rogue multiple times in the wake of Rogue's various killing sprees against the Triads and Yakuza, but Rogue always manages to stay one step ahead.

Ultimately, it turns out Rogue has been working for the Yakuza all along, his mission being to gain Chang's trust in order to betray him later. However, Rogue shows reluctance when he is ordered to kill Chang's wife and child as well. Although Rogue does eventually execute Chang, he helps Chang's wife and child escape to safety, and even kills the Yakuza minions sent to help him kill Chang's family.

With Chang dead, Shiro is finally ready to come to America, where he intends to take over Yakuza business operations. However, he is confronted by Crawford and the FBI; Crawford presents Shiro with proof that Rogue has betrayed him and spared Chang's family, but Shiro refuses to assist Crawford in locating Rogue.

Hitman

2008-02-08T05:40:00.000-08:00

Hitman (traditional Chinese: 殺手之王; simplified Chinese: 凶手的国王 Literal Title: King of Killers), also known as Contract Killer in the United States, is a 1998 Hong Kong action movie directed by Tung Wei and starring Jet Li, Eric Tsang, and Simon Yam. The movie was the last collaboration between Hong Kong regulars Li and Yam, as well as Li's last starring role in a Hong Kong film. The plot deals with a rogue assassin known as the "Killing Angel", and a bounty placed on the Angel's head being pursued by an ex-soldier played by Li.

Plot

The film starts with a brief recollection of the "Killing Angel", a dangerous assassin that has been operating in most of southeast Asia. The Killing Angel has no known accomplices or colleagues, is not affiliated with any government, religious, or criminal organization, and to this date their true identity has still remained secret. The Killing Angel is believed to be responsible for 6 murders in the past year alone, with only one thing connecting each of the assassinations - all the victims were criminals and deserved to die.

Then the movie quickly moves on to the Killing Angel's most recent killing, the well-publicized assassination of a notorious ex-yakuza crime boss. Working swiftly, the Killing Angel is able to overcome the criminal's defense systems, quickly incapacitating the boss's bodyguards and isolating his target. In a fit of desperation, the crime boss promises to triple whatever fee the Killing Angel is being paid to kill him, then goes on to warn the vigilante that there is a massive revenge fund set to avenge his killing. Ignoring his pleas, the Killing Angel silently kills the crime boss.

The scene then switches over to the story of Fu (Jet Li), a small-town gang member who lives an extremely simple and modest lifestyle, albeit being a contract killer. It is revealed that Fu is very kind and has trouble killing innocent people, a trait that causes him to be disliked by the other low-rent triad members. When Fu's boss reveals that there is now a $100 million US bounty on the Killing Angel's head for the slaying of the yakuza boss, Fu is quick to volunteer for the job, but is instead insulted.

Fu then attempts to enter the building where the crime boss's lawyers are discussing the terms for the revenge fund, but is detained at the entrance and ushered out by security guards. In a surprisingly quick sequence, Fu defends himself by rapidly incapacitating each of the guards. His lightning-swift martial arts skills draw the attention of Ngok Lo, played by Eric Tsang, a seedy contract booker and loan shark, who comes to Fu's aid by pretending that he is an agent and Fu is his actor. Thanks to Lo's smooth talking, the pair is able to sidle into the meeting.

The meeting however, comes to a halt when government agents, led by detective Chan (Simon Yam), raid the building in search of known criminals who are meeting there. Chan, a leading detective, has been working tirelessly to expose the Killing Angel's true identity for years. The movie then switches over to another sequence, where the character of Eiji Tsukamoto, the slain crime boss's grandson, played by Renji Sato, is introduced. Tsukamoto, fed up with his grandfather's cowardice in life, now seeks his grandfather's power in death. Tsukamoto consumes a portion of his grandfather's cremated ashes, an act that causes the deceased lord's top aid to call him insane, but now all of the family's agents and gang members serve Tsukamoto as their new master.

Dr. Wai

2008-02-08T05:39:00.000-08:00

Dr. Wai and the Scripture Without Words (also known as Mo him wong or Adventure King)is a Hongkong action movie featuring Jet Li from 1996. It won the Golden Horse Award for 'Best Visual Effects' and was nominated at the 16th Hong Kong Film Awards in the category 'Best Action Choreography'.
Plot

A pulp serial author with numerous personal problems resulting in a serious case of writer's block, temporarily escapes reality by living vicariously through one of his lead characters in story about a quest for a mythical scripture. This story within a story has Jet Li up against an enormous mutant marsupial, Japanese sumo wrestlers and ninjas, although the pen is mightier than the sword (or metal grill, as it were) in this film by famed director Siu-Tung Ching.

Cast

* Jet Li as Chow Si-Kit
* Takeshi Kaneshiro as Shing
* Rosamund Kwan as Monica Kwan/Cammy
* Billy Chow as Chan/Japanese Embassy Guard
* Sing Ngai
* Charlie Yeung as Yvonne
* Johnny Kong
* Karying Law as Headmaster

Director:Siu-Tung Ching

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Unleashed

2008-02-08T05:37:00.001-08:00

Danny is the slave of British crime boss Bart, Bart adopted Danny when he was a child and has turned him into a dog and makes him wear a collar around his neck. When Bart removes the collar from Danny's neck, Danny unleashes his lethal fighting skills and becomes a killing machine, when Bart orders Danny to attack the targets. After being wounded in a accident and Bart ends up in a coma, Danny is befriend by a American blind piano turner named Sam and his teenage stepdaughter Victoria and they welcome him into their family. Sam and Victoria decides to teach Danny about the world and being human. When Bart wakes up from his coma and he and his gangster want Danny back and forces him to take part in a illegal gladiatorial fight club to earn money, Danny decides he doesn't want to hurt people anymore and sets out to protect Sam and Victoria and fight for his freedom.

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Cradle 2 The Grave

2008-02-08T05:35:00.000-08:00

Cradle 2 the Grave is a 2003 action film directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak featuring world-renowned martial artist Jet Li and the rapper DMX.
Plot

When Tony Fait (DMX), with his gang of thieves, manages to steal a bag full of valuable black diamonds (which are actually synthetic plutonium), they find themselves face to face with a deadly enemy named Yao Ling (Mark Dacascos). Ling ends up kidnapping Fait's daughter and taking the diamonds. This leads to both an unlikely partnership between a Taiwanese agent named Su (Jet Li) and Fait, and to an action-packed journey filled with mysteries to recover the child and the jewels.

Cast

* Jet Li ... Su
* DMX ... Anthony Fait
* Mark Dacascos ... Yao Ling
* Gabrielle Union ... Daria
* Kelly Hu ... Sona
* Drag-on ... Miles
* Anthony Anderson ... Tommy
* Tom Arnold ... Archie
* Paige Hurd ... Vanessa
* Michael Jace ... Odion

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The One

2008-02-08T05:19:00.000-08:00

The One is a 2001 Revolution Studios action movie, starring Jet Li and Carla Gugino and written, produced and directed by James Wong and Glen Morgan.
Plot outline

A superhuman criminal named Yu-Law (Jet Li), once a member of the organization policing interdimensional travel (via detecting wormhole openings, which can be predicted like the weather), seeks to hunt down and kill variations of himself in alternate universes to absorb a common life force (which possibly has to do something with the string theory as it was mentioned in the movie by Evan Funsch) that connects them all. By killing his other selves, and absorbing their power, he wishes to become as a god.

The only one who can stop him is the last of his alternate selves (MVC: MultiVerse Counterpart), Gabriel Law, who works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in a near-image of our own universe (George W. Bush remained President, but had some policy differences such as a "Universal Health Care Plan") and, before the events of the movie, was unaware of the multiverse. Law is assisted by a member of the Multiverse Authority that Yu-Law once worked for, with the concern that if only one version of Yu-Law is left there will be catastrophic results for the entire multiverse.

Cast

* Jet Li - Gabriel "Gabe" Law/Gabriel Yu-Law/Lawless
* Carla Gugino - T. K. Law/Massie Walsh
* Delroy Lindo - MVA Agent Harry Roedecker/Gas Station Attendant
* Jason Statham - MVA Agent Evan Funsch
* James Morrison - Officer Bobby Aldrich/'A' World Inmate #1
* Dylan Bruno - Officer Yates
* Richard Steinmetz - Officer D'Antoni
* Steve Rankin - MVA Supervisor
* Tucker Smallwood - Prison Warden

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Romeo Must Die

2008-02-08T05:17:00.000-08:00

Romeo Must Die is a 2000 action movie with a Romeo and Juliet theme, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. It stars Jet Li, Aaliyah, Delroy Lindo, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, Anthony Anderson, D.B. Woodside, and DMX, and features action choreography by Corey Yuen. It is considered Jet Li's breakout role in the English film industry. Despite of the romantic main theme, in which it was originally slated to have a scene at the end where Jet Li and Aaliyah kiss, that kiss was cut in the final release. The comments by Jet Li indicate that the scene was removed because in the film a family member is murdered, and it would be inappropriate for him to be kissing a girl immediately afterwards from the rival family. Apart from several establishing shots, the film was entirely shot in Vancouver, Canada.

Synopsis

The film opens at Silk's (played by DMX) nightclub, where Po Sing (played by Jon Kit Lee), the son of Chinese Triad boss Ch'u Sing (played by Henry O), is confronted by several African-American gang members. Po's bodyguards, led by Kai (played by Russell Wong) come to his aid, resulting in a fight in the club. After the Chinese are ushered out of the nightclub, Kai argues with Po, resulting in the latter driving away in anger.

The next morning, Po Sing's body is found dangling from a light pole, dead. The news quickly travels to Ch'u, as well as the boss of the black gang, Isaak O'Day (played by Delroy Lindo).

The scene shifts to Hong Kong, where Po's brother, Han Sing (played by Jet Li), is currently incarcerated. Han, formerly a cop, had taken the fall for his brother and father, who have both since escaped to America. Upon hearing of his brother's death, Han breaks out of prison and heads for the US.

The character of Trish O'Day (played by Aaliyah in her first film role) is then introduced. Although the daughter of a notorious crime boss, Trish wants nothing to do with her father or crime, and is reluctant when Maurice (played by Anthony Anderson), working for her father, comes to act as her bodyguard and babysitter.

Trish manages to give Maurice the slip at a music store and gets into a cab, which coincidentally Han is stealing. The two drive for Trish's house, and along the way, they become fast friends. Meanwhile, Isaak is meeting with shady businessman Vincent Roth (played by Edoardo Ballerini), where it is revealed they are planning to build a football stadium.

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Fist of Legend

2008-02-08T05:15:00.000-08:00

Fist of Legend (Chinese: 《精武英雄》; pinyin: Jīng Wǔ Yīngxióng; literally "Hero of Jing Wu") is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts film starring the martial artist Jet Li. It is directed by Gordon Chan and features action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping. It is a remake of Bruce Lee's 1972 film Fist of Fury. The film takes place in Shanghai in 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War as the city is occupied by Japanese forces. It is regarded as one of the best martial arts films of all time, and almost universally viewed as Jet Li's best.

The film follows Chen Zhen (Chinese: 陈真) (Jet Li), in his quest to bring the killers of his master, Huo Yuanjia (Chinese: 霍元甲) , to justice.

Plot

The movie begins with Chen Zhen, played by Jet Li, attending college in Japan. Chen and other students are busy in class when suddenly the schoolroom is flooded by some racist Japanese martial arts students, who try to force Chen to leave. When Mitsuko, a female classmate, and the teacher defend his right to be there, the thugs assault the professor and threaten the girl. Chen engages the Japanese fighters, defeating them with a variety of painful but controlling locks and throws. Mitsuko's uncle, the legendary Funakochi Fumio, played by Yasuaki Kurata, arrives soon afterward and apologizes for the behavior of his students, reminding them that violence is never the answer.

Fumio, extremely impressed by Chen's skills, engages him in conversation, and Chen learns his master, Huo Yuanjia, has been killed by a Japanese fighter in a challenge match. Chen, immediately distraught, leaves on a boat for Shanghai. At the harbor, Mitsuko tells Chen she will wait for him.

Chen arrives in a different place than the one he left: his old school, Jin Woo, formerly of master Huo Yuanjia's, is now a laughingstock, with the master dead. His childhood friend, Huo Ting-An, played by Siu-hou Chin, is now the new master, and as Chen enters the training grounds, he witnesses Ting-An defending the school's honor by defeating a rival martial arts master. Chen is welcomed back with honors, and taken into the school.

The next day, Chen travels to Akutagawa Ryoichi's dojo, played by Jackson Liu, the Japanese master that defeated Huo Yuanjia. Chen demands to see the Japanese master, and when the school's students try to force him out of the dojo, he defeats them all in short order. The fight is brought to an end when Akutagawa enters, and honorably accepts Chen's challenge. The two have a short fight and Chen realizes there is no way Akutagawa could have defeated Huo, as the Japanese martial arts master is simply not that capable.

Chen realizes that the only way Huo could have lost to Akutagawa was if Huo was not fighting at full power, and suspecting foul play, has his teacher's corpse exhumed for an autopsy. Although the other Jin Woo members criticize his decision, they are further dismayed when it is quickly shown that Huo was indeed poisoned. Further analysis shows that the poison exacerbated Huo's asthma, attacking his lungs and making them susceptible to easy damage. This is why Huo was unable to generate power and withstand blows during his match and died vomiting blood.

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Martial Arts of Shaolin

2008-02-08T05:14:00.000-08:00

Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are chased all over by soldiers. Meanwhile, one of the southerners turns out to be a cross-dressed woman, who is also discovered to wear a footbell to match Jet Li's, meaning they are somehow slated for an arranged marriage.

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Tai Chi Master

2008-02-08T05:08:00.000-08:00

Tai Chi Master (also released as Twin Warriors on video in the US) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts action/adventure film starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh. It was directed by Yuen Wo Ping and written by Yip Kwong Kim.
Plot

Junbao (Jet Li) and Tienbo grow up together in a shaolin temple as monks, studying the martial arts and generally getting into trouble. When they are expelled from the temple after Tienbo almost kills a fellow student who cheats in a fight against him, they go to the town to find food. A gang of henchmen take the money from a local shop owner where a woman called Miss Li steals the money and gives it back to the owner. Having noticed his money gone, the henchmen start to fight with Miss Li where Junbao interferes and defeats all of them. Army reinforcements arrive to break up the fight and so the trio run away to escape capture. At this moment the eunuch governor travels through the town. Tienbo realises that he wants to be as rich as the governor, but Miss Li warns him that he has "a heart of a viper" and wonders if he could handle his power. Miss Li then shows the monks to a pub to get food.

In a pub, they find a woman called Siu Lin. Siu Lin is searching for her husband, and in the pub, she finds him. Her husband became the new husband of the governor's niece. Siu Lin starts a battle with the niece where they both seem equal, but the husband hits Siu Lin on her head causing her to collapse. Junbao helps Siu Lin by defeating the niece surrounded with guards.

The next day, while Junbao and Tienbo are making money with their amazing Kung Fu skills. The governors second in command spots them and is impressed with Tienbo's abilities and so he offers him to join the army (which he accepts) however, Junbao is more reluctant to do so and declines going with Tienbo and so the two go their separate ways. Later, some soldiers come to the pub to collect taxes (which have increased due to the governors greedy nature) but Junbao and the rebels (who have stolen great valuables from the governor to give back to the poor) fight and kills them one-by-one. But one soldier escapes and he starts off to the army's camp with Junbao following him. But just in front of the army camp, Tienbo kills the soldier. Tienbo says to Junbao to stay clear of the rebels as they'll get him in trouble. Now knowing where the rebels are hiding however, Tienbo takes this unique opportunity to gain a promotion and set up a trap for Junbao and the rebels by telling them that the army is on patrol and it is the best time to attack them.

http://www.yourtv.ro/tai%20chi.php

Fong Sai Yuk The Legend II

2008-02-08T05:00:00.001-08:00

Fong Sai-yuk II (or Fong Sai Yuk juk jaap) (North American title: The Legend 2) is a 1993 Hong Kong-made film, starring Jet Li as historical figure Fong Sai-yuk, that was made as a sequel to Fong Sai-yuk.

Plot summary

The storyline involves an attempt by second-in-command Yu to rebel against Chen Jialuo, the leader of the anti-Qing Red Flower Society, of which Fong Sai-yuk is a member.

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Fong Sai Yuk The Legend I

2008-02-08T04:59:00.001-08:00

Fong Sai-yuk (Chinese: 方世玉; pinyin: Fāng Shìyù; Yale Cantonese: Fong1 Sai3 Yuk6; North American title: The Legend), is a 1993 Hong Kong-made martial arts film starring Jet Li and directed by Corey Yuen. It is based on the life of the historical figure Fong Sai-yuk.

The film has strong comic elements that dovetail with the mischievous reputation of its hero, a young kung-fu master who spends his days playing around with his friends instead of learning.

Plot

Fong Sai-yuk comes to learn that his father is the head of the Red Flower Society, an anti-Qing rebel group (cf. Tiandihui). The rest of this film follows Fong Sai-yuk as he matures into the legendary Chinese warrior he comes to be.

In the film, Fong Sai-yuk's mother, played by Josephine Siao, is a main character and Tiger Lu is the father of Sai-yuk's love interest and a figure of amusement rather than a menacing villain. Fong Sai-yuk also portrayed as a mama's boy. More than once he is saved by her.

http://kungfutube.bravehost.com/legend1.html

The Swordsman II

2008-02-08T04:56:00.000-08:00

Swordsman II (traditional Chinese: 笑傲江湖之東方不敗; simplified Chinese: 笑傲江湖之东方不敗; pinyin: Xiào Ào Jiāng Hú Zhī Dōng Fāng Bù Bài; Cantonese Yale: Siu3 Ngou6 Gong1 Wu4 Ji1 Dung1 Fong1 Bat1 Baai6) is a Hong Kong action film made in 1991. It was directed by Siu-Tung Ching and Stanley Tong and written by Hanson Chan, Jin Yong, Tang Pik-yin and Tsui Hark. This movie was the second in a trilogy of films. It stars a young Jet Li, Brigitte Lin, Rosamund Kwan and Michelle Reis.

Swordsman II is one of the most popular adaptions of a series of books by Jin Yong called The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. Many earlier and later adaptations of the book exist, including several tv shows and movie versions.

This movie adaptation barely followed the actual book series. The movie created a love affair between the main character and the antagonist, which never existed in the book. The main character in the movie seemed to chase women all the time, which is not how the main character in the book series was characterized. The role of the antagonist, Dongfang Bubai (東方不敗), was greatly expanded in film. Finally, the ending in the movie is different than the book series. The movie ends with the main character and his lover sailing to Japan, while the book series ends with the main character becoming the most powerful Wuxia, retiring from the worldly affairs and spending the rest of his days having an instrumental duet of the song Xiao Ao Jiang Hu with his lover.

Cast

* Jet Li - Ling Wu Chung
* Brigitte Lin - Asia the Invincible (Dong Fang Bu Bai)
* Michelle Reis - Kiddo
* Waise Lee - Hattori
* Rosamund Kwan - Ren Ying Ying
* Chin Kar Lok - Saru
* Fennie Yuen - Blue Phoenix
* Yen Shi-Kwan - Wu

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Shaolin Temple

2008-02-08T04:53:00.000-08:00

The Shaolin Temple (Chinese: 少林寺; Pinyin:Shàolínsì) is a 1982 martial arts film directed by Chang Hsin Yen (Xinyan Zhang). It starred Jet Li in his debut as a leading actor. The film is based on the Shaolin Temple in China and depicts the Shaolin martial arts.

The film grossed a strong HK $16,157,801 in its Hong Kong theatrical run.

A curious fact about this film is that, despite being Jet Li's first film, it was almost his last, due to the fact that, during the shooting, Li became so involved with buddhism, that he almost became a monk.

Cast

* Jet Li as Chieh Yuan
* Yan Di Hua
* Ji Chun Hua
* Wang Jue as Ban Kong
* Sun Jian Kui as Se Kong
* Ding Lan as Bai Wu Xia
* Liu Huai Liang as Liao Kong
* Qingfu Pan
* Cui Zhi Qiang as Xuan Kong
* Hu Jian Qiang as Wu Kong
* Wang Guang Quan
* Zhang Jian Wen
* Du Chuan Yang as Wei Kong
* Yu Cheng-Hui as the villain Wang Renzhe
* Hai Yu as Shi Fu

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Once Upon a Time in China III

2008-02-08T04:52:00.001-08:00

Once Upon a Time in China III (黃飛鴻之三獅王爭霸) is a 1993 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li as legendary Chinese folk hero, Wong Fei Hung. It is the third film in the Once Upon a Time in China series.

Plot

The Qing Dynasty was set in a time of turmoil at the turn of the century (c. 1900), when foreign nations began taking over and ruining China's sovereignty. To restore China's pride and power, the Empress Dowager and Governor Li Hongzhang sponsor a national King Lion Competition, where it features competing lion dancers.

Wong Fei Hung and his disciple Leung Foon arrive in Beijing to visit Fei Hung's father, Kei Ying. The two meet Aunt Yee at the train station, where she just reunited with a friend, a Russian diplomat named Tomonvsky, who vies for her attention to the annoyance of Wong.

Upon meeting his father, Fei Hung learns he was attacked by a wealthy rival martial artist named Chiu Tim Ba and his formidable fighter and lackey, Club. Luckily there were only minor injuries. Kei Ying, who runs a martial arts school and a shop selling lion masks, decides to grant Fei Hung's blessings since his son and Aunt Yee develop closer relations.

At the first round of the Lion Dance competition, Fei Hung merely decides to be a spectator. However, Foon has just reunited with his younger brother and the two secretly join the contest for fun, but they run afoul of Club. Foon and Club have a short scrimmage, and Club's foot is seriously injured by a dozen rampaging horses. Fei Hung has to intervene, and then he meets Chiu and his nasty personality. He vows revenge for his wrongdoings.

MOVIE LINK
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Once Upon a Time in China II

2008-02-08T04:50:00.000-08:00

Once Upon a Time in China II (traditional Chinese: 黃飛鴻之二男兒當自強) is a 1992 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li as legendary Chinese folk hero, Wong Fei Hung. It is the second film and first sequel in the Once Upon a Time in China series.
Plot

Set in 1895, late Qing Dynasty, Wong Fei Hung (Jet Li), his companion Leung Foon (this time played by Siu Chung Mok aka Max Mok) and developing romantic interest Aunt Yee (Rosamund Kwan) travel by train to Canton to attend a lecture on techniques of Western and Eastern medicine. Wong lectures on the benefits of acupuncture whilst another doctor translates for the British audience.

The seminar is besieged by the fanatical White Lotus Society, led by the seemingly invincible Priest Kung (Xiong Xin Xin). The extreme nationalist cult aim to force all foreigners out of Canton and they fire flaming arrows into the building where the seminar is taking place. This cult is most likely based on a rebellious anti-foreigner group called the Fists of Righteous Harmony (also known as the Boxers that led the Boxer Rebellion) which actually existed in the year 1900.

Wong learns that his translator friend is none other than Sun Yat Sen (Cheung Tit Lam), the leader of a group of pro-democratic rebels who wish to help China become a Republic. Sun and Lu Haodong, another rebel, are planning to go to Hong Kong to continue their work of revolution. Wong assists the rebels, but an official of the Manchu imperial government, General Lan (Donnie Yen) stands in their way.

Further confrontations ensue when the White Lotus attack a foreign-language school for children. Aunt Yee hides the children in the British Consulate. Later, the consulate is attacked, with the help of General Lan, by the White Lotus cult. To prevent a potential war, Wong and Lu go to the headquarters of the White Lotus Cult and after an intense battle, Wong defeats and wrecks the clan.

Later, Wong, Lu and Leung go to retrieve the contact list of the rebels, who will be killed otherwise by the Qing government. In the process, Lu is shot and killed by General Lan's men. Wong and Lan have what many have called "the greatest fight of Jet Li on screen", defeating him and meets up with Sun Yat-sen at the dock.

MOVIE LINK
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Once Upon a Time in China

2008-02-08T04:48:00.000-08:00

Once Upon a Time in China (traditional Chinese: 黃飛鴻; pinyin: Wong Fei Hung) is a 1991 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li as legendary Chinese folk hero, Wong Fei Hung. It is the first film in the Once Upon a Time in China film series.

Plot

Concerns are growing over the Westerners from America, Britain and France increasing their presence in Foshan (in some DVD releases, the subtitles state that the town in question is Canton, perhaps because it is a more recognizable place). The general of the Black Flag Army approaches Wong Fei-Hung (Jet Li) and requests that he recruit and train a militia of kung fu warriors to help protect the town. Wong recruits the butcher, "Porky" Lang (Kent Cheng) and "Bucktooth So" (Jacky Cheung).

Wong meets up with 十三姨 ("Thirteenth Aunt", played by Rosamund Kwan) and romantic feelings between the two are stirred. However, Shao Jun's father was a sworn brother to Wong Fei Hung's grandfather. This had made her, technically, Wong Fei Hung's aunt. A romantic relationship between them was considered a taboo among traditional Chinese society, thus this issue kept haunting their relationship.

Leung Foon (or "Fu", played by Yuen Biao) arrives in town with a Chinese Opera group and gets in trouble with a local gang called Sha Ho Bang, who are terrorising local businesses and dealing with the Americans. He accidentally runs into Aunt Yee and falls in love with her. After being kicked out by the opera group, Fu begins training under another master, "Iron Robe" Yim (Yee Kwan Yan).

The Americans, Jackson (Jonathan Isgar) and Tiger (Steve Tartalia) are working for the Sino-Pacific company, exporting Chinese people to the US for virtual slave labour. The Sha Ho gang aids the Americans by kidnapping women to be sold as prostitutes for the Americans.

Sifu Wong attempts to bring the gang to justice but the fearful inhabitants of Foshan do not dare to act as witnesses.

"Iron Robe" Yim decides he must fight and beat Wong in order to make a name for himself in the town, in order to open a successful martial arts school. The Sha Ho gang offers to help Yim if he allies himself with their gang, a move which forces Leung Foon to stand against Wong Fei Hung.

MOVIE LINK
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Bruce Lee-Fist of Fury

2008-02-04T19:23:00.000-08:00

MOVIE LINKS

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the Legend of the Drunken Master

2008-02-04T18:58:00.000-08:00

Jackie Chan return becomes and is able to fend off numerous attacks and perform incredible stunts. Aided by his hilarious stepmother and friends, Hong faces the challenge of protecting valuable Chinese history and saving his family honor.s to the role that made him a star in 1979's "Drunken Master." Chinese folklore hero Wong Fei Hong discovers a smuggling ring, orchestrated by the British Government, to transport valuable Chinese artifacts out of the country. Hong must use his unique style of martial arts, "Drunken Boxing," to fight the conspirators and salvage the Chinese treasures before it

MOVIE LINKS

http://movies.nabolister.com/links_page?movie=10478

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow

2008-02-04T18:22:00.000-08:00

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (traditional Chinese: 蛇形刁手) is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action film. It was the directorial debut of Yuen Woo-ping, who has since gained international stardom as the action choreographer for films such as Iron Monkey, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Matrix series and Kill Bill.

The film starred Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-Lee and Yuen's own father, Yuen Siu Tien. Directly after this film, Yuen Woo-ping directed Drunken Master. Released in the same year, it also starred Jackie Chan, Hwang Jang-Lee and Yuen Siu Tien.

Plot

Chien (played by Jackie Chan), an orphan adopted by a kung-fu school, is overworked as their janitor and abused by the kung fu teachers as a walking punching-bag. Chien befriends an old beggar (Yuen Siu Tien) by offering him a meal and a place to stay. Unknown to Chien, the old beggar is actually the last surviving master of the Snake-style of kung fu. The old man is on the run from the Eagle Claw clan, which is viciously killing off all of the rival Snake-style kung fu masters. Seeing that Chien is being abused, the old man gives Chien kung fu lessons so he can defend himself. The old man leaves the school to find a better hiding spot. Chien practices the lessons and learns to avoid being hurt by the school's bumbling teachers. When the school is invaded by the Mantis school, Chien easily defeats their master using snake to everyone's amazement. Unfortunately, one of the passing wanderers who witnessed the fight was a master of the Eagle Clan.

Chien meets the Eagle Claw clan master, who inquires about the old beggar. Noticing that Chien has learned some Snake-style skills, the Eagle Claw master lies, saying that he was a student of the old beggar and asks Chien to help him find the old man. Realising that his Snake-style fighting is no match for the style practiced by the Eagle Claw master, Chien creates a new style from watching his pet cat kill a cobra. Eventually, Chien unwittingly leads the Eagle Claw master to the old man. In the duel, Chien merges his "cat style" with snake style to finally defeat the Eagle Claw master. Chien announces that he will call his technique "Cat's Claw", but the Old man suggest that he give the technique the name "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow".

MOVIE LINKS

http://movies.nabolister.com/links_page?movie=7662

The Young Master

2008-02-04T18:03:00.000-08:00

The Young Master (師弟出馬) is a 1980 martial arts film that stars Jackie Chan as Dragon.

The film is notable for being the first that Jackie Chan worked on for Golden Harvest, and despite being his second film as director (his first was Fearless Hyena), this is often incorrectly credited as his directorial debut. It was co-written by Chan and King Sang Tang and produced by Raymond Chow and Leonard Ho.

Synopsis

In the film, the school attended by Dragon and his brother, Tiger (Wei Pei) is entered against a rival school in a Lion Dance competition. The school needs to win the prize money to remain open but their star performer, Tiger, is seemingly injured when he falls from a ladder, leaving his brother, Dragon, to take his place. During the competition, Dragon realises that his brother feigned his accident in order to take part in the competition for the rival school.

The rival school wins the competition, but the truth emerges about Tiger's betrayal and he is exiled in disgrace. Dragon vows to bring back his errant brother so the pair can make amends to their master. Dragon sets off on his mission, but en route is mistaken for a criminal known as The White Fan by local police chief, Sang Kung (played by Shih Kien). Meanwhile, Tiger collaborates with his employers (the rival school) by freeing a dangerous criminal known as Kam. However, Tiger is later framed for a bank robbery. To stop his brother from being arrested, Dragon promises to apprehend the escapee, Kam.

MOVIE LINKS

http://www.watch-movies.net/movies/the_young_master/

Police Story 2

2008-02-03T13:34:00.000-08:00

Police Story 2 (警察故事２, or Ging chaat goo si juk jaap) is a 1988 action-comedy film directed by and starring Jackie Chan. It is a sequel to the hit 1985 film, Police Story, continuing the storyline of Chan's character, "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui.

Plot

Inspector Chan Ka Kui has been demoted to highway patrol as the result of his handling of his previous case, which involved the violent arrest of crimelord Chu Tao. The new duty pleases his girlfriend, May, who is glad that her boyfriend is no longer taking difficult cases and has more time to see her.

However, the happy mood changes when Ka Kui is greeted by Chu Tao and his bespectacled right-hand man John Ko. It seems Chu Tao is terminally ill with only three months left to live, so he's been released from prison, and while he's still alive he vows to make life difficult for Ka Kui. John Ko and some henchmen show up at Ka Kui's apartment and intimidate him, baiting the policeman to attack. Later, May and her mother are beaten by John Ko and his men. Ka Kui can no longer hold back, and he lashes out against John Ko and his men at a restaurant.

Ashamed of his behavior, Ka Kui intends to leave the Royal Hong Kong Police Force for good. He plans to take a trip to Bali with May, but while he's at a travel agency in a shopping mall, some police officers see him and report that the mall is under a bomb threat. Unable to resist the urge to get involved in police work, Ka Kui tells the officers to sound the fire alarm and have the mall cleared, and agrees to take responsibility for the decision. A bomb does indeed explode, and the entire mall is leveled by the blast.

Ka Kui is praised for his efforts, and he is assigned to solve the case of the bombing. Ka Kui plants a covert listening device in the mall property company's office to try and learn more about the bombers. This leads to a suspect who is a deaf-mute and is a fierce martial artist and explosives expert.

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Police Story

2008-02-03T13:14:00.000-08:00

Police Story (警察故事, Ging chaat goo si) (Pinyin: Jǐngchá Gùshì) is a 1985 Hong Kong action-comedy film directed by and starring Jackie Chan and written by Edward Tang. It is the first of a series featuring Jackie Chan as a Hong Kong police detective named "Kevin" Chan Ka Kui.

Chan began work on the film after a disappointing experience working with another director on The Protector, which was intended to be his entry into the American film market.

The film contained many large-scale action scenes, including an opening sequence featuring a car chase through a shanty town, Chan stopping a double-decker bus with his service revolver and a climactic ending fight scene in a shopping mall. This final scene earned the film the nickname "Glass Story" by the crew, due to the huge number of panes of sugar glass that were broken. During a stunt in this last sequence, in which Chan slides down a pole from several stories up, the lights near the pole had heated it considerably, resulting in Chan suffering second-degree burns to his hands.

Police Story is considered by fans to be one of Chan's best films. It was a massive hit in Asia and also won Best Film at the 1986 Hong Kong Film Awards.

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Drunken Master 2

2008-02-03T12:38:00.000-08:00

Drunken Master II (Tradtional Chinese:醉拳二 Jui Kuen II) is a martial arts film directed by Lau Kar-Leung and starring Jackie Chan as Wong Fei Hung, a legendary Chinese folk hero. The film was originally released in Hong Kong in 1994. After Chan became an established star in the United States, it was dubbed into English and released there in 2000 under the title Legend of Drunken Master.

Although it is the follow up to Drunken Master (1978), it is not a direct storyline sequel.

Synopsis

The story concerns the misadventures of Wong Fei Hung as he accidentally becomes involved with the affairs of the British consul, who is smuggling ancient Chinese artifacts out of the country. Wong Fei Hung battles the henchmen of the consul using the Zui Quan ("Drunken Boxing") style of martial arts. An added twist is that Wong Fei Hung becomes a more powerful fighter by consuming alcohol. But when he consumes too much alcohol, he becomes very sluggish, drunk, and unable to fight. That was what lead to his near downfall in the beginning of the movie.

The film ends with a fight scene lasting over 10 minutes against Ken Lo, who was one of Jackie Chan's bodyguards. The fight has been lauded as one of the most intense and technically astute scenes in movie history. It has been compared (favorably) to Chan's fights against kickboxer Benny Urquidez in Wheels on Meals and Dragons Forever.

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Police Story 4: First Strike

2008-02-03T12:25:00.000-08:00

Police Story 4 (簡單任務), First Strike, released in English-speaking markets as Jackie Chan's First Strike, is a 1995 action-adventure made in the typical humorous style of Jackie Chan.

Jackie reprises his role as "Jackie" Chan yet again as a Hong Kong cop who works with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Later Jackie realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon find himself a pawn of an organisation posing as Russian intelligence.

The movie was shot partially in Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, where the last half of the movie is based. Chinatown, Brisbane in Fortitude Valley and Underwater World on the Sunshine Coast were used.

To advertise First Strike, Jackie recorded the song Zenmo Hui and also made music-video for it. As is typical with Chan's pictures, the US version does not feature the theme song.

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Rumble In the Bronx

2008-02-03T12:16:00.000-08:00

Rumble in the Bronx (紅番區; Hong faan kui in Cantonese) is an action-comedy movie starring Jackie Chan and Anita Mui.

Filmed in 1995 and released in 1996, Rumble in the Bronx had a successful theater run, and brought Chan into the American mainstream. Rumble in the Bronx was filmed in and around Vancouver, but was set in the Bronx area of New York City.

Jackie Chan pulled off some death-defying stunts in the movie, and spent much of the filming time with one leg in a cast. His foot had not yet healed when it was time to film the movie's climax and so the crew simply colored a sock to wear over his cast resembling the sneaker on his other foot. His foot hadn't completely healed when he went on to shoot Thunderbolt (filmed the same year but released earlier). Also, the lead actress and several stunt doubles broke their ankles during the shooting of a motorcycle stunt.

Plot

Keung (Jackie Chan), a former Hong Kong martial arts champion, comes to New York to attend the wedding of his Uncle Bill (Bill Tung) who introduces his new wife to him down at his supermarket. Keung gets a job with one of the workers, Elena. Bill's friend asks him to take care of his car, until later that night, a street gang starts a motorcycle race near his apartment. They are about to run over his friend's car until Keung jumps down and stops them. He soon starts a rivalry with the street gang when he drives them away from the supermarket that they were robbing and vandalizing. When a member of the street gang gets involved in an illegal diamond deal gone bad and steals the diamonds, the small-time gangsters become the victims of a much larger criminal syndicate, and Keung agrees to help them. Keung convinces the street gangsters to reform, then brings the big-time criminals to justice.

Who Am I

2008-02-03T11:52:00.000-08:00

Who Am I? (我是誰; pinyin: Wǒ Shì Shéi; Cantonese: Ngo Si Sui) is a Hong Kong film directed by and starring Jackie Chan, released by Golden Harvest in 1998. Chan also performed the song that plays over the end credits.

Plot

A member of a CIA-sponsored multinational black ops special forces unit is on a mission to kidnap several South African scientists working on a highly volatile extraterrestrial compound brought to Earth in a meteorite. According to the computer data showing the names of the participants of the operation, his name is 'Jackie Chan' (Chan). He falls victim to a staged "incident" which results in the death of his colleagues. He survives, but is subsequently stranded in the African veldt with massive amnesia. When asked by natives for his name, he replies "Who am I?", which they take to be his real name. Experiencing flashbacks hinting at his true identity, 'Who am I?' proceeds to befriend two beautiful women - Christine (Michelle Ferre), a CIA agent working undercover as a journalist, and Yuki (Yamamoto Mirai).

Renegade ex-US Army officers and black market arms dealers are illegally exporting the extraterrestrial compound, and 'Who am I?' is the only potential threat to their operations. Agents are sent out to stop 'Who am I?' before he can expose their criminal activities. He defeats numerous bad guys, and ultimately engages in a tightly choreographed roof-top fight scene in Rotterdam against Morgan's two top hitmen, and performing the film's signature stunt, sliding down the steeply-pitched glass roof. The CIA secures the villains' arrests, and 'Who am I?' comes to terms with his identity.

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Gorgeous

2008-02-03T11:29:00.000-08:00

Gorgeous (玻璃樽 Bor lei jun) is a 1999 Hong Kong movie, directed by Vincent Kok. It is a martial arts / romantic comedy film starring Jackie Chan and Shu Qi in the two leading roles.

Background

Chan had long wanted to be involved in drama films, but had constantly been dissuaded by Leonard Ho, one of the founders of Golden Harvest and Chan's godfather. Ho had argued that to ensure success in his films, Chan should play to his fanbase by only doing action movies and avoiding the love scenes that may alienate certain markets (notably Japan). Ho died in February 1998 and Chan left Golden Harvest soon after, seeking a change and a new freedom to make the films he really wanted to. This coincided with his growing fame in the West, due to the international success of the film Rush Hour.

Gorgeous was originally conceived purely as a love story, with Chan as producer, but not as one of the film's cast. In order to secure the actress Shu Qi, the script of the film was re-written and a role for Chan was created. This soon developed into a starring role, and elements of action crept in. However, Gorgeous remains primarily a romantic comedy and so it differs from his usual all-out action films. The action scenes are fewer and there is no real bad guy character - the fight with the nominal enemy (played by Brad Allan) is a pre-arranged bout and both fighters wear boxing gloves - competitive rather than motivated by revenge or the fight for survival.

The director had wanted to use Chan's office as the set for C.N.'s apartment, but this proved impractical, particularly as that section of the office is on the third floor. However, many props from Chan's office were used including his own training dummy. Chan said of his character C.N., that he was "60-70% Jackie Chan". The clothing the character wears, the training routine he undergoes and healthy lifestyle he maintains, his general good nature and his environmental role are all traits and actions of Chan himself.

Chan summarised the difference between the films Rush Hour and Gorgeous, stating the former was a job, and the latter was his baby. In Rush Hour his role was restricted to actor and action director. In Gorgeous, he was also the producer, editor and was involved in casting.

Although a romantic comedy, the only significant kissing scene was dropped from the main film for fear that it would alienate certain East Asian markets who may not want to see Chan in such a relationship. The underwater kiss scene was retained and appeared amongst the out-takes that accompany the film's closing credits.

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Shanghai Noon

2008-02-03T11:17:00.000-08:00

Shanghai Noon is a 2000 action-adventure-comedy-western film starring Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. Directed by Tom Dey, it was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The movie, set in Nevada and other parts of the west in the 19th century, is a juxtaposition of a western with a Jackie Chan Kung Fu action movie with extended martial arts sequences. It also has elements of comedy and the "Buddy Cop" film genre, as it involves two men of different personalities and ethnicities (a Chinese imperial guard and a Western outlaw) who team up to stop a crime.

The title (a pun on the Gary Cooper classic High Noon) and several names used in the film pay homage to earlier westerns. Chan's character, "Chon Wang" is meant to sound like John Wayne, and the antagonist, Nathan Van Cleef, is an homage to Lee Van Cleef, who played "the Bad" in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, among other roles in major westerns. In addition, Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson's character) reveals at the end that his real name is Wyatt Earp, which Chon laughingly dismisses as "a terrible cowboy name".

A sequel, Shanghai Knights, was released in 2003.

Plot

Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) is an imperial guard of China. After Princess Pei-Pei (Lucy Liu), who Wang has affection for, is abducted and taken to the United States, the Emperor of China sends three of his bravest guards to retrieve her. Wang is not among one of the three, but after he tells them that it was his fault the princess was kidnapped, he is sent merely in the hopes that the "foreign devils" would get rid of Wang for China. In Nevada, Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) is an outlaw who, with his gang, hijacks the train Wang is on. When Wallace, a member of Roy's gang, kills Chon's uncle, Chon chases the outlaws down. However, the gang is well-armed and Chon's only choice is to unhinge the cars and get away on the engine. In the process, Wallace takes over the gang from O'Bannon, and they leave him buried up to his chin in the desert sand.

Meanwhile, Pei-Pei, who was tricked into believing she was freely escaping her arranged marriage in China, finds out she has been kidnapped by agent of Lo Fong, who ran away from the Forbidden City and was viewed as a traitor by the Chinese.

When Chon finds Roy buried in the sand, he demands to know the direction to Carson City. Roy tells him that the city is on the other side of a mountain. He puts two chop sticks in Roy's mouth and tells him to dig himself out. When Chon comes out the other side of the mountain, he gets involved with a Native tribe by saving a boy chased by the Crow tribe and ends up reluctantly marrying the tribe chief's daughter, Falling Leaves (Brandon Merrill), after supposedly having sex with her the night before. When he and his new wife get to the next town, she promises him that she will look out for him. Inside a tavern in the town, Chon finds Roy and, in anger, starts a fight with him that turns into a barroom brawl. The two of them get sent to prison, and after they escape (thanks to Falling Leaves), they decide that they will become friends. O'Bannon himself was a little motivated by hearing that there was plenty of the Chinese Emperor's gold being exchanged as a ransom for the princess. Roy trains Wang in the ways of the cowboy and also tells him, in response to Chon's lack of openness, that he is in the West, not the East.

The Tuxedo

2008-02-03T11:01:00.000-08:00

The Tuxedo is a 2002 action/comedy film starring Jackie Chan and Jennifer Love Hewitt. It is a spy spoof that involves a special tuxedo that grants its wearer special abilities and a corporate terrorist threatening to poison the United States fresh water supply with bacteria that spills electrolytes into the blood and totally dehytrates the host.

Plot

Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) is a taxi driver notorious for his speed and ability to get his customer anywhere in the least amount of time, usually without too many illegal methods. His reputation soon lands him a job as the personal chauffer of the mysterious but wealthy Clark Devlin.

Jimmy does not really know what his new boss' job is, but Devlin's friendly nature, unperturbable demeanor, and willingness to offer Jimmy advice wins Jimmy over and the two become pals. Jimmy has no idea that Devlin is a spy and when an attempt to kill Devlin partially succeeds, sending Devlin into a coma, Jimmy ends up accidentally wearing a rather unusual tuxedo of Devlin's. The tuxedo is a gadget capable of granting its wearer special abilities (including martial arts, the ability to dance, active camouflage, and being able to walk on walls) which Jimmy must use to stop the terrorist group responsible for Devlin's hospitalization. He joins genius scientist, Del Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt) to stop them. At first, she thinks Jimmy is irritating, but in the end when he saves her and the world, Del Blaine falls in love with him and they go for coffee.

Cast

* Jackie Chan as Jimmy Tong
* Jennifer Love Hewitt as Del Blaine
* Jason Isaacs as Clark Devlin
* Debi Mazar as Steena
* Ritchie Coster as Dietrich Banning
* Peter Stormare as Dr. Simms
* Mia Cottet as Cheryl
* Romany Malcoas Mitch
* James Brown as Himself
* Daniel Kash as Rogers
* Jody Racicot as Kells
* Boyd Banks as Vic
* Colin Mochrie as Gallery Owner
* Christian Potenza as CSA Agent Joel

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The Medallion

2008-02-03T10:56:00.000-08:00

The Medallion is 2003 action/comedy film starring Jackie Chan, Lee Evans and Claire Forlani. It was released in 2003 and was much less successful than Chan's other North American vehicles of the Rush Hour series, Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights.

Plot

Eddie Yang is a Hong Kong police officer cooperating with Interpol in the capture of a crimelord named AJ "Snakehead" Staul. The operation is headed by the officiously paranoid Agent Arthur Watson and also involves a former girlfriend of Eddie's, a British agent named Nicole. The investigation leads the team to the kidnapping of a young boy named Jai, who holds the secret to a powerful medallion that gives its possessor superman powers and immortality. After a near-death rescue of Jai from drowning, Eddie is given supernatural martial arts powers, which assists him in tracking down Snakehead and putting an end to the arch-criminal's scheme.

Cast

* Jackie Chan as Eddie Yang
* Lee Evans as Arthur Watson
* Claire Forlani as Nicole James
* Julian Sands as Snakehead
* John Rhys-Davies as Cmdr. Hammerstock-Smythe
* Anthony Wong Chau Sang as Lester
* Christy Chung as Charlotte Watson
* Johann Myers as Giscard
* Alex Bao as Jai
* Siu-Ming Lau as Antiquerium Dealer (as Lau Siu Ming)
* Diana Weng as Undercover Woman
* Chow Pok Fu as High Priest
* Chan Tat Kwong as Monk
* Mak Wai Cheung as Monk
* Anthony Carpio as Guard Monk

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Twins Effect II

2008-02-03T10:48:00.000-08:00

The Twins Effect II (Traditional Chinese:千機變II: 花都大戰; Pinyin: Qiānjībiān èr Huādū dàzhàn; ) is a Hong Kong movie released on August 6, 2004. It is a sequel to The Twins Effect, with a completely different storyline. A story about two girls fighting against a group of vampires. Acted by the famous Hong Kong singers, "Twins," and actor Edison Chen.

While the Twins are still the protagonists in the movie, The Twins Effect II co-stars Jackie Chan's son, Jaycee Chan, and Wilson Chen. Twin's Effect II's original English name is Huadu Chronicles: Blade of Rose.

Plot

The story tells about how men are treated like slaves while women rule, because the queen hated men. She thought that her lover, Wei Liao, had betrayed her and so she became evil. There is one man to overthrow the queen, the Star of Rex. He would be the owner of the Excalibur and bring back the balance of the two genders.

Cast and roles include

* Jaycee Chan - Charcoal Head/ Star of Rex
* Gillian Chung - Blue Bird
* Charlene Choi - 13 Young Master
* Wilson Chen - Blockhead
* Edison Chen - Peachy
* Jackie Chan - Lord of Armour
* Qu Ying - Evil Queen
* Donnie Yen - Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
* Fan Bing-Bing - Red Vulture
* Daniel Wu - Wei Liao
* Xie Jingjing - Edo Bowman
* Tony Leung Ka-Fai - Master Blackwood
* Jim Chim - Palupa

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Shanghai Knights

2008-02-03T10:34:00.000-08:00

Shanghai Knights is a 2003 action-comedy film. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Plot

The film opens in the Forbidden City in 1887, where Chon Lin (Fann Wong) is drinking tea with her father, the Keeper of the Imperial Seal of China. She tells him her brother, Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), is doing well as a sheriff in Carson City, Nevada, United States, but her father replies that he no longer has a son. At that moment, Lord Nelson Rathbone (Aidan Gillen), leads a band of Boxers into the city, who attack the Keeper. Lin defends her father, but is knocked unconscious. Rathbone kills him with a snake-handled dagger, and leaves with the seal. As he lies dying, he gives Lin a puzzle box and a letter to Chon.

Back in the Wild West, Chon Wang is doing well as sheriff, having captured an impressive array of fugitives. His deputy is relaxing with a book called Roy O'Bannon Vs. The Mummy, a highly fictionalized account of the events of the first film that now portrays Wang's "Shanghai Kid" as a cowardly sidekick.

Wang checks the coach from California, but his lover, Princess Pei Pei (portrayed by Lucy Liu in the first film), is, yet again, not there. She is busy, he explains to the driver, as a social activist in San Francisco on behalf of Chinese immigrants. Wang does receive a parcel, though, which contains the puzzle box and Lin's letter, telling him his father is dead and that she has tracked the murderer to London.

The Twins Effect

2008-02-03T10:28:00.000-08:00

The Twins Effect (traditional Chinese: 千機變) is a Hong Kong movie that was released in Hong Kong on June 23, 2003.

The movie was derived from the famous Cantopop duo, Twins, starring both Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi, co-starring actors Edison Chen and Ekin Cheng with a special guest appearance by Jackie Chan.

The Twins Effect gained a lot of popularity mainly from Twins fans, and was then released the DVD in the United States, renamed The Vampire Effect. The Vampire Effect is edited by about 20 minutes.

The Twins Effect was the 2003 highest box-office Hong Kong-made movie in Hong Kong itself.

Cast and roles include

* Ekin Cheng - Reeve
* Gillian Chung - Gypsy
* Charlene Choi - Helen
* Edison Chen - Kazaf
* Anthony Wong - Prada
* Mickey Hardt - Duke Dekotes
* Jackie Chan - Jackie
* Josie Ho - Lila
* Karen Mok - Ivy
* Maggie Lau - Nurse Maggie
* Cheung Tat Ming - Jackie's Friend
* Ricardo Mamood - Ethan
* Winnie Leung - Deborah
* Mandy Chiang - Momoko
* Digger Mesch - Vampire Thomas
* Marky Lee Campbell - Vampire Boz
* Mark Strange - Vampire Smashing
* Philip Chen - Vampire Lebrow
* Daniel Whyte - Vampire Ice
* Simon Robida - Vampire Zoolander
* Daniel O'Neill - Vampire Dan
* Bey Logan - Vampire John
* Robert Meister - Vampire Elron
* Michael Clements - Vampire Nobals
* Don Ferguson - Vampire Train
* Philip Ng - Ambulance Vampire
* Matthew Sturgess - Vampire Food
* Chapman To - Helen's Fat Boyfriend
* Spencer Lam - Jackie's Dad

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Rob-B-Hood

2008-02-03T09:53:00.000-08:00

Rob-B-Hood (simplified Chinese: 宝贝计划; traditional Chinese: 寶貝計劃; pinyin: bǎobèi jìhuà) is a 2006 action comedy film written and directed by Benny Chan, starring Jackie Chan, Louis Koo and Michael Hui. The film was produced with a budget of HK$16.8 million and filmed between December 2005 and April 2006. Rob-B-Hood is notable as the first film in over 30 years, in which Jackie Chan, tired of being typecast as "Mr. Nice Guy", plays a negative character—A burglar and compulsive gambler.

Rob-B-Hood tells the story of a kidnapping gone wrong in Hong Kong; a gang of burglars consisting of Thongs, Octopus and the Landlord kidnap a baby from a wealthy family on behalf of triads. With the Landlord arrested, Thongs and Octopus take care of the baby for a short time, developing strong bonds with him. Reluctant to hand the baby over, the two are forced to protect him from the triads who hired them in the first place.

Rob-B-Hood was released in Hong Kong, China and Southeast Asia on 29 September 2006 to generally positive reviews. The film topped the Chinese box office in October 2006 and despite not being given a release in most European and North American countries, it grossed over US$20 million worldwide.