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THE REMIX
BandSAboutMovies7 December 2023
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American Commando 6: Kill Butterfly Kill: IFD is a company that you probably know. They had Joseph Lai, Godfrey Ho and Thomas Tang make hundreds if not thousands of similar titled ninja movies that combine other films with hastily shot gunplay or martial arts battles.

It's like watching two movies that only have one moment where they meet.

Three years ago, special agent Aaron Nolan (Mark Miller) broke up the Garvino gang. But now the brutal Garvino (Mike Abbott) is on the street again. Aaron and his partner Rick Hammet set out to neutralize him. Meanwhile, Donna is a nightclub owner who is their only ally in the war against Garvino, spurred on because years ago, five of his men raped her. Now, teaming with Richard, she'll get the revenge she needs while Arron goes after his target.

This feels like the two movies are nearly decades apart, much less the quality of the film stock, so in no way does it ever appear to be seamless. And isn't that how we want it?

If you know IFD movies, you know that the music is always stolen from incredible places. This one features "Arca" by Richard Norris, "Divine Particles" by Takkra and "Oxygene Part 1" by Jean-Michael Jarre. IFD loves some Jean-Michael Jarre.
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3/10
Laborious cut and paste enterprise
Leofwine_draca20 November 2018
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AMERICAN COMMANDO 6: KILL BUTTERFLY KILL is yet another in the endless stream of cut-and-paste thrillers churned out by IFD in Hong Kong, with Godfrey Ho at the helm again and wisely hiding beneath a pseudonym. I think this is one of the few ones where the original film being ripped off looks more interesting than the newly-shot action scenes, which see wooden star Mike Abbott tangling with a former criminal who he let escape years ago and who is now gunning for him. The Taiwanese thriller this liberally borrows footage from is a rape revenge saga in which a woman is gang-raped before seeking revenge against the gang who committed the violent crime. This is laborious stuff, not entertaining in a bad way, just boring.
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