Jackie Chan is a legend, the actor has forged his career mastering the genre of action comedy making his way into Hollywood. However, the actor also has faced certain roadblocks in some of his movies as they were not so impressive both at the box office and critical perspective.
Jackie Chan’s The Medallion
It is hard to walk past bumpy roads, Chan’s The Medallion faced a similar fate but it was primarily due to the director, Gordon Chan failing to recognize one fatal mistake. So, despite Chan being on board, the movie met with fatal doom.
The Reason Why Jackie Chan’s The Medallion Failed
Jackie Chan in The Medallion
Jackie Chan is certainly one of the greatest action stars currently working in the industry. The actor started his acting journey in the 1960s and appeared in over 150 films in his illustrious career with his celebrated titles including Who Am I?...
Jackie Chan’s The Medallion
It is hard to walk past bumpy roads, Chan’s The Medallion faced a similar fate but it was primarily due to the director, Gordon Chan failing to recognize one fatal mistake. So, despite Chan being on board, the movie met with fatal doom.
The Reason Why Jackie Chan’s The Medallion Failed
Jackie Chan in The Medallion
Jackie Chan is certainly one of the greatest action stars currently working in the industry. The actor started his acting journey in the 1960s and appeared in over 150 films in his illustrious career with his celebrated titles including Who Am I?...
- 3/20/2024
- by Lachit Roy
- FandomWire
Imagine for a second you are trapped like Malcom McDowell in “A Clockwork Orange” being subjected to watch a cinema screen with your eyes forced open unable to shut them to the horrors on screen. After the 90 minutes I endured watching “In Between loves” this is the movie I imagine playing if that nightmare were to ever happen to me. I get that in Hong Kong cinema genres blend, so a Horror\Comedy hybrid is to be expected. In fact, personally I feel that Hong Kong does these better than anybody. Yet every so often, we get examples of why this are difficult balancing acts. You could argue that this is the Ying to “Mr Vampire’s” yang. A balancing of the cinematic universe by making a movie so bad that you suspect its actually part of a “Producers” style scam.
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- 11/29/2021
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
The house invasion sub-genre has been around long before it become one of the standard tropes in modern horror cinema. It’s usually a good way to build suspense by keeping the action confined to a restricted setting. The Audrey Hepburn vehicle “Wait until Dark” upped the ante with this by making the heroine blind which only further added to the tension by increasing the vulnerability of the lead. In turn it became much more cathartic when they would finally get the upper hand. “Three Days of a Blind Girl” is of a similar vein as it seeks to be a rollercoaster ride of suspense for its audience.
Jack Ng (Anthony Chan) is with his wife (Veronica Yip) as she leaves a consultation with her doctor (Alfred Cheung). Due to a complication following an eye operation in the states, she will be temporarily blind for three days.
Jack Ng (Anthony Chan) is with his wife (Veronica Yip) as she leaves a consultation with her doctor (Alfred Cheung). Due to a complication following an eye operation in the states, she will be temporarily blind for three days.
- 3/29/2021
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
Above: The Midnight AfterAs we near the end of not just a year but a decade, we’re becoming inundated with even more lists than usual, as we look back at the last ten years in cinema and are compelled to rank movies for some unknown, possibly nefarious purpose. My default answer for the question of which film has most defined this past decade is Fruit Chan’s The Midnight After (2014), a response which is usually greeted with benign indifference, bemusement, or confusion. But for those of us on its wavelength, no film more perfectly defines this accelerationist decade than the story of the end of the world as seen through sixteen people on a Hong Kong minibus who have no idea what has happened to them, why it happened, or what they should do next. They fumble through explanation after explanation as they are whittled down one by one...
- 11/22/2019
- MUBI
“Life is cheap but diamonds are expensive” is a line that could have come from any Raymond Chandler novel but instead is the line that completely defines this particular noir from Hong Kong.
Heung Ming (Yuen Biao) is a cop looking to emigrate with his daughter to Canada. His wife is having an affair with corrupt cop Superintendent Liu (Charlie Chin) and when she attempts to blackmail him, he hires an assassin, Chiu Pai (Pat Ha), to have her killed. Framed for her murder, Heung Ming is forced to go into hiding with his daughter whilst attempting to clear his name, all the time being pursued by Liu and his team, who are eager to cover up their involvement. Heung Ming finds himself in an unlikely alliance with Chiu Pai, who is now also being hunted down by those that hired her.
Surface expectations of a film...
Heung Ming (Yuen Biao) is a cop looking to emigrate with his daughter to Canada. His wife is having an affair with corrupt cop Superintendent Liu (Charlie Chin) and when she attempts to blackmail him, he hires an assassin, Chiu Pai (Pat Ha), to have her killed. Framed for her murder, Heung Ming is forced to go into hiding with his daughter whilst attempting to clear his name, all the time being pursued by Liu and his team, who are eager to cover up their involvement. Heung Ming finds himself in an unlikely alliance with Chiu Pai, who is now also being hunted down by those that hired her.
Surface expectations of a film...
- 8/29/2019
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
Above: Japanese poster for In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2000). It’s no secret that Mubi—the site you are on right now—owes its existence partly to Maggie Cheung. In an oft-told story, its founder Efe Çakarel was killing time in a cafe in Tokyo in 2007 when he sensed that he was in the mood for Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. Finding that there was no way to stream that movie right there and then, he resolved to start his own global arthouse movie streaming service, and thus Mubi, or The Auteurs as it was initially known, was born. Now I’m not saying that Maggie Cheung herself was the main reason Efe wanted to watch In the Mood for Love, but she is such a major part of the allure of that film that I am giving her the credit, especially on...
- 12/8/2016
- MUBI
Sammo Hung is one of the greatest Screen Fighters, Directors and Choreographers in Martial Arts cinema history. Started his early career as an extra in Shaw Brothers productions, then became of fight choreographer on a few of there movies.
It was when he started his career with Raymond Chow at Golden harvest Studios, that Sammo started to show what he could do in terms of action in-front and behind the camera. Sammo Hung has made some of the finest movies of all time and also bringing us some incredible talent such as Yuen Biao, Angela Mao, Lam Ching Ying, Michelle Yeoh and many more.
This is a list of 30 Sammo Hung movies you should check out, this list is also for new fans of the genre. So i hope you enjoy the list and i also mention some other Sammo Hung movies at the end of the page.
1.Hapkido (1972)
Director:...
It was when he started his career with Raymond Chow at Golden harvest Studios, that Sammo started to show what he could do in terms of action in-front and behind the camera. Sammo Hung has made some of the finest movies of all time and also bringing us some incredible talent such as Yuen Biao, Angela Mao, Lam Ching Ying, Michelle Yeoh and many more.
This is a list of 30 Sammo Hung movies you should check out, this list is also for new fans of the genre. So i hope you enjoy the list and i also mention some other Sammo Hung movies at the end of the page.
1.Hapkido (1972)
Director:...
- 1/13/2015
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Yuen Biao is one of the greatest screen performers of all time. He exploded onto our screens when Sammo Hung cast him in the amazing movie Knockabout and he has never looked back since.
This list will be familiar with most fans around the world, but this list is also for people who are new to this genre and want to check out some great flicks. I have added a few movies, which are a bit low budget but does contain some nice action.
I know there are still many Yuen Biao movies i could have named in this list, some i shall give a mention to at the bottom of the feature. So i hope you like the movies i have listed, if your new to Yuen Biao please check out some of these great flicks.
1.Dreadnaught (1981)
Directed By: Yuen Woo Ping
Cast: Kwan Tak Hing, Leung Kar Yan,...
This list will be familiar with most fans around the world, but this list is also for people who are new to this genre and want to check out some great flicks. I have added a few movies, which are a bit low budget but does contain some nice action.
I know there are still many Yuen Biao movies i could have named in this list, some i shall give a mention to at the bottom of the feature. So i hope you like the movies i have listed, if your new to Yuen Biao please check out some of these great flicks.
1.Dreadnaught (1981)
Directed By: Yuen Woo Ping
Cast: Kwan Tak Hing, Leung Kar Yan,...
- 1/12/2015
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Cast: Yuen Biao Pat Ha Man Jing, Charlie Chin, Yuen Wah, Lo Lieh, Philip Ko
Director: Alfred Cheung
Producer: Sammo Hung
On The Run is a very under-rated thriller, starring Kung Fu legend Yuen Biao in one of his finest acting roles to date. Sammo Hung produces the movie which will have you watching at the edge of your seats till the very end.
Plot
When his police detective ex-wife is shot dead in a restaurant, “Hsiang Ming” (Yuen Biao) is initially frustrated by the negative impact on his emigration prospects! After quickly apprehending and overpowering the killer, “Miss Pai” (Pat Ha), things become even more complicated for Hsiang as he realizes that she and he are now targets of his erstwhile colleagues – corrupt detectives seeking to cover evidence of their own drug crimes. Framed for murder, Hsiang’s options rapidly contract as the killers target his elderly mother and young daughter.
Director: Alfred Cheung
Producer: Sammo Hung
On The Run is a very under-rated thriller, starring Kung Fu legend Yuen Biao in one of his finest acting roles to date. Sammo Hung produces the movie which will have you watching at the edge of your seats till the very end.
Plot
When his police detective ex-wife is shot dead in a restaurant, “Hsiang Ming” (Yuen Biao) is initially frustrated by the negative impact on his emigration prospects! After quickly apprehending and overpowering the killer, “Miss Pai” (Pat Ha), things become even more complicated for Hsiang as he realizes that she and he are now targets of his erstwhile colleagues – corrupt detectives seeking to cover evidence of their own drug crimes. Framed for murder, Hsiang’s options rapidly contract as the killers target his elderly mother and young daughter.
- 8/29/2012
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
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