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Hitman City (2003)
Hong Kong Never Looked So Good.
First of all, I am a fan of Scott Shaw Zen Films. What a Zen Film means is that he creates films without a script, allowing his natural inspiration to guide him through the story. As an artist and a musician I can really relate to this concept of Improv.
I have seen most of his Zen Films and I think this is my favorite, alongside Undercover X. This movie is partially filmed in Hong Kong and the cinematography in Hong Kong is great.
I think what I like most about this movie is the characters, they are all really interesting and due to the fact that their performances are improved, they are all very believable. This is something that is not always the case in many Independent films and the reason I think Zen Film-making truly works. This is a good, character driven, movie if you are like me and like to watch the back story for each character unfold. Plus, it is very-very visual, almost like a music video.
I am not going to reveal the twist to this movie, as IMDb.com doesn't want its reviewers to give away spoilers, but it is a big one. This movie is worth the watch just to try to figure it out.
Capital Punishment (1991)
One Nice Surprise
I picked up this movie because, every now and then, I enjoy watching the bad martial arts films that came out of the 1980s and 1990s. This is definitely one of those films, with a typical story line, bad cinematography, tons of shots that look like stock footage that have nothing to do with the rest of the movie, and the expected over acting.
If you are going to watch this for the martial arts, this is not a very good movie. All of the martial art scenes are very slow and they appear to be very contrived.
The one thing that I was surprised about is that a young, very hot Scott Shaw appears in this film as the bad guy cohort of David Carradine. At least for me, that made this movie worth the watch.