Life looks easy for Mace Morgan chief rig inspector for Wheeler International major maker and maintainer of offshore oil exploration hardware when his tough-nut company boss Benjamin Wheeler offers him a partnership in a new oil-drilling enterprise. But the sweet life starts turning sour when Mace becomes emotionally involved with Monique a Louisiana oil groupie and Benjamin's latest bit. With Benjamin laid up with a broken leg Mace and Monique make the most of their chance to be together.... until a lover's tiff sends her hurtling off into the night in Mace's sports car culminating in a hit-and-run killing of a motorcycle cop. Mace tries to cover Monique's involvement in the crime but soon finds himself caught in a web of blackmail drug-running and corruption involving the police. Soon the bodies start to pile up around him as he finds out he is being framed for murder.
The amazing Jet Li plays a cop whose job keeps him from attending his son's junior kung fu competitions in The Enforcer. When sent undercover to infiltrate the gang of a brutal mob boss, his arrest--part of his cover story--exposes his son to humiliation in school. Meanwhile, his wife falls deeper into illness. The Enforcer is a classic Hong Kong blend of dazzling kung fu action and outrageously sentimental subplots. Yet as silly as some situations may seem (and let's be honest, they aren't any more ridiculous than your average Sly Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger movie), they're never boring, and when the spectacular fights begin it doesn't matter--Jet Li's stunning skill and natural charisma make him magnetic. Anita Mui--co-starring as a police detective tracking Li down--gets to do her share of fighting as well. In the finale, father and son team up for a battle as funny as it is spectacular. The stunts are jaw-dropping and the special effects, while not always perfectly realistic, are bursts of pure imagination.--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com
A hard-boiled cop wakes up drenched in blood he remembers nothing but the police find a bloody murder weapon that matches his type. A criminal has been killed and he becomes the prime suspect...
Five all time classics from 20th Century Fox. The Fly (Dir. Kurt Neumann 1958): Scientist Andre Delambre becomes obsessed with his latest creation a matter transporter. He has varying degrees of success with it. He eventually decides to use a human subject - himself - with tragic consequences. During the transference his atoms become merged with a fly which was accidentally let into the machine. He winds up with the fly's head and one of it's arms and the fly with Andre's
In The Black Sheep Affair special forces agent Yim Dong (Chiu Man Chuk--the brilliant wu shu marital artist star of 1995's The Blade) is transferred to the fictional ex-Soviet Republic of Lavernia, actually Hungary, where the explosive Now You're Dead (1998) was filmed. Soon he has arrested Mishima, played by Hoi Lin who delivers a chilling performance as a ruthless Japanese terrorist who believes he is Christ returned to bring bloody redemption. Before long Mishima's fanatical followers are causing mayhem, while in a bittersweet sub-plot Yim revives his relationship with the girl he loved in Beijing before the 1989 uprising. The comparatively low budget shows occasionally, and even in the Cantonese version all the Lavernians are dreadfully dubbed with American voices, one duplicitous official coming across like a camp Oliver Reed. Against that there is an attempt to offer some political substance, and the action--a mixture of martial arts and gunplay--is fast, furious and stunningly staged, so that even as it goes ludicrously OTT it remains exhilarating. The "shoot-the-hostages" finale reaches an emotional intensity and breaks rules no Hollywood action flick would dare, turning into a John Woo-like slaughterhouse which makes the likes of Die Hard (1988) look tame. On the DVD: The end titles carry the Dolby Digital logo, so why both the Cantonese subtitled and English dubbed versions of a 1998 film are presented in two-channel mono is a mystery. The anamorphically enhanced 1.77:1 image is good but not exceptional, and exhibits some clear compression artefacts. The "music promo" is essentially one of Hong Kong Legends' own specially-made trailers, and is accompanied by more trailers for a further five films. The photo gallery is pointless but the text biographies of the two main stars are detailed enough to be interesting. Two minutes of poor quality video show Chiu Man Chuk demonstrating some wu shu moves, while a four-minute interview conducted at the same time via a translator for French television does little more than reveal the star as an amiable chap. Several of the features are also present on the DVD of Chiu Man Chuk's Body Weapon (1999). --Gary S Dalkin
Did you ever see two kids like Dennis and Sue Ann? We think not... Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is released from prison following a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small town he befriends and deceives straight-A student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). Convincing her that he is in fact a secret agent she decides to joins him. However is Sue Ann using Dennis' own weaknesses for her own evil ends?
A triple bill of Hong Kong action classics from director Andrew Lau (Wai Keung Lau). The Stormriders: The most eagerly awaited Hong Kong movie event boasting Hong Kong's highest ever production budget and box office take. It is a visually stunning epic blend of swordplay explosive martial arts and breathtaking special effects to create the ultimate final fantasy. A Man Called Hero: Based on the comic book series by Ma Wing Shing 'A Man Called Hero' is a spectacular
Award winning director Ann Hui's insightful look into the harsh realities of the unsung heroes of the Hong Kong film world: the stunt performers who earn their living by risking their lives to make the most action packed pictures...
Angels In The Outfield: Roger who has lost his mother is living separated from his father. As he and his friend J.P. are two of the biggest fans of the Los Angeles baseball team he has got only two dreams: Living together with a real family and LA winning the championship. As he is praying for these two things to happen some angels show up in order to help him - but he is the only one to see them and believe in them. Fortunately the coach of the baseball team sees his abiliti
Harrowing, funny, and immediately addictive, the 1979 British television series Danger UXB stars Anthony Andrews as Army Lieutenant Brian Ash, an engineering student whose excitement about his rapid commission as an officer during World War II is tempered by his unenviable post with a bomb disposal unit. Assigned to a fatality-heavy team that defuses unexploded German bombs scattered throughout London during the blitz, Ash faces down his terror and eventually becomes the closest thing to an expert one can be dismantling sometimes booby-trapped ordnance. In doing so, he earns the respect of his superiors as well as from the enlisted men working under him, and his protracted survival is nothing short of miraculous considering the tragic number of friends and colleagues Ash loses. There is a dark side, however. The longer Ash sticks with his unit, the more obsessive he becomes about his responsibility to keep London safe. Meanwhile, his nerves grow frayed and his morale collapses. Ash's desperate romance with a married woman (Judy Geeson) provides him little to hold onto, and when a true crisis ambushes his spirit toward the end, one can't be sure if he's headed for the scrap heap of permanent casualties. Based on the recollections of an actual wartime bomb disposer, Danger UXB was created by John Hawkesworth, who later produced (and wrote many episodes for) the fantastic Sherlock Holmes TV series starring Jeremy Brett. Despite many tense moments in Danger UXB's 13 episodes--one is always expecting a bomb to blow away a favorite character--the show is also graced by great humor (Ash's crew sometimes bring to mind Sergeant Bilko's hustlers) and a warm, likable cast. Andrews himself, perhaps, has never been better. This boxed set includes a History Channel documentary, "Bomb Squad." --Tom Keogh
Police drama set in the sleazy world of the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad. Award-winning actor Ken Stott (Fever Pitch Shallow Grave) stars in The Vice a hard-hitting drama set in the vice unit of the Metropolitan Police based in the heart of London's West End. Prostitution porography and murder are all part of the workload for the vice team as they investigate the capital's darker secrets. The Vice portrays a city of extraordinary social contrasts moving swiftly from the back streets of King's Cross to the bars of Park Lane hotels. Episode 1: Daughters Episode 2: Sons Episode 3: Dabbling.
The gripping police TV series peeks into the darkest corners of British society as the team led by D.I. Chappel (Ken Stott) aims to uncover the very worst criminals dealing in prostitution and pornography in the London sex trade... Series 1: 1. Daughters (Part 1) 2. Daughters (Part 2) 3. Sons (Part 1) 4. Sons (Part 2) 5. Dabbling (Part 1) 6. Dabbling (Part 2) Series 2: 1. Home Is The Place (Part 1) 2. Home Is The Place (Part 2) 3. Walking On Water (Part 1) 4. Walkin
The Enforcer: Li plays an undercover Chinese cop sent to track down a notorious criminal in Hong Kong. There he ultimately teams up with his young son an incredible kung fu master in the making. Together they lay down the law... Spectacular thrill-a-minute entertainment with knockout intensity this is a can't miss event for Jet Li fans and a must-see for anyone who's looking for some real action! The Defender: Action superstar Jet Li powers onto the screen in a non-stop action thriller about loyalty betrayal and revenge. Li plays a hard hitting and highly trained bodyguard hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his beautiful girlfriend after she witnesses a murder. But things get sticky when the bodyguard and the girlfriend begin to develop feelings for one another. Then while protecting the sexy witness Li kills the brother of one of the assassins and becomes the target for retribution himself. Featuring the always amazing Jet Li performing all of his own hand-to-hand combat 'The Defender' is a must-see for action fans everywhere!
2000 AD reunites Aaron Kwok and Andrew Lin from the ferociously pyrotechnic Black Sheep Affair (1998) for a slick but muddled Hong Kong/Singapore co-production conspiracy thriller about computer espionage. Kwok and Lin make fine adversaries, and have one excellent martial arts battle on a vertigo-inducing rooftop. Otherwise the action involves powerfully staged Heat-style gun play rather than martial arts, one set-piece car chase/shoot-out being strongly influenced by the Riviera pursuit in Ronin (1997). Beginning as a serious thriller, Kwok's nerdish computer games designer transforms into an invulnerable action hero, and any sense of plausibility is sacrificed for regulation mayhem. Cluttered with more characters than it knows what to do with, 2000 AD combines aspects of The Net (1995) and Entrapment (1999) into a largely nonsensical plot. Lin's villain is given vital information which later he is completely ignorant of. We never find out exactly what he is planning, or who he is really working for, and in one mystifying sequence he crashes the Singapore stock exchange, yet the event has absolutely no effect on anything. Though the cast is engaging and the direction polished the finale is an anti-climax, symptomatic of a highly entertaining movie which promises more than it delivers. On the DVD: The 1.77:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is clean and generally free from grain; the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio is as powerful as any heard on a Hong Kong movie, although listen though headphones and a fair degree of background hiss is clearly audible in the quiet scenes. The film can be viewed with the original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, or dubbed into English. Either way, a surprisingly large amount of the original dialogue is in English. There is a 19-minute "making of" documentary, though this is bland made-for-television promotional fare. Much better is the 14-minute interview with director Gordon Chan and a 17-minute interview with Andrew Lin who reveals how once shooting had begun his originally heroic part was re-written to make him the villain, thus explaining why the plot makes so little sense. Best of all is the commentary by Chan and Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan, which is packed with information about the movie, Hong Kong cinema and filmmaking in general. By itself it makes the DVD a worthwhile purchase. --Gary S Dalkin
The sixth series of The X-Files picks up after the events of the big-screen movie. So it is that "The Beginning" attempts to fit the film into the TV chronology before moving on to tackle plot points left dangling from series five's "The End" (note the guard asleep at the nuclear power plant console is named Homer!). Between story arc threads are several pleasing one-off excursions: time travel to a Bermuda Triangle boatload of Nazis ("Triangle"); further temporal escapades akin to Groundhog Day ("Monday"); a demonic baby case featuring genre stalwart Bruce Campbell ("Terms of Endearment"); and "The Dreamland, Parts 1 and 2", in which David Duchovny gets to play someone else via personality switching. Back in the conspiracy scheme of things, Mulder chases "S.R. 819", a Senate resolution tying conspiracies together; "Two Fathers" and "One Son" indicates that the abductee experiments are intended to cure the black oil disease; and the year finishes with "BioGenesis", in which a beach-buried UFO has Scully and the audience wondering if we are from Mars. --Paul Tonks
A series of gruesome murders resembling fairy tales puzzle a hard-nosed detective. Inspector Wong (Lau Ching Wan) arrests a seemingly disturbed man who has confessed to a brutal murder reminiscent of a children's fable. After the supposed victim turns up alive and unharmed the perpetrator is dismissed as a crank and let free. Days later the victim turns up dead with his stomach cut open and stuffed with rocks. Wong realizes he has let a dangerous killer go free and becomes obsessed with tracking him down whilst covering up his mistake. While Wong's family life is neglected more and more grizzly and bloody murders are committed laying reference to Cinderella The Red Shoes and Hansel and Gretel. Special Features: Director Intro Cast Interviews
Sucker Free City is an original film directed by Spike Lee that takes a riveting look at the seductive dangerous world and life choices of a diverse group of young people inextricably caught up in the unique gang culture of San Francisco. When racial tension erupts and emotions collide three young men from different ethnic backgrounds perpetrate low-level crimes that eventually infringe upon each other's neighbourhoods. As their lives intersect on the streets will they com
The UFC is the worlds premier mixed martial arts sport company bringing together various disciples including karate Jiu Jitsu kickboxing boxing and sumo. Ultimate Knockouts 3 features more of the most extreme knockouts in the UFC!
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