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Intro

“The Killer” represents all that is cool about Hong-Kong action films of the late 80′s and early 90′s. It’s directed by action maestro John Woo and stars familar face Chow-Yun Fat, the king of gunplay.

The premise is simple and familiar if you’ve seen Woo’s other films like “Hard-Boiled”, or “A Better Tomorrow”. Take one cop, one criminal and a common and numerous enemy and throw in a shitload of guns and explosions. It’s an idea still being rehashed constantly in modern Hollywood actions pictures like “Exit Wounds”.

Story

As the back of the box says, “The Killer” is “a literal landmark in modern Action-Cinema” and Woo’s love of two-fisted gunplay and gratuitous use of slow-mo has inspired countless computer games like “Max Payne” and a number of huge mainsteam films like “The Matrix”.

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Another Marvel film? Yes. Another superhero? Not exactly. He’s just a guy, no superpowers whatsoever, but isn’t that the same for all the best action heroes.

Driven by the anger and pain of having his entire family massacred at the hands of a criminal gang. Frank Castle’s life is now devoted to ending those of all the murderers/rapists/gangsters he can shake an M16 at.

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“Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken”

Perhaps the most violent martial arts movie ever made.

Intro

Perhaps you’ve never heard of Sonny Chiba. Perhaps your only knowledge of “The Streetfighter” relates to the 90′s arcade game featuring Ryu, Ken and Guile.

But Sonny Chiba does exist, and so does his 1974 masterpiece of violence, “Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken”, or “The Streetfighter”. This is a bad film. A very bad film, but don’t get me wrong, it’s bad in a good way. There’s no particularly coherent story to speak of and the dialogue at times appears to make little sense. But that’s not really the point of this film. The point of this film is that Sonny Chiba is a very hard man who likes to bust heads.

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Intro

Written and directed by Chris McQuarrie, writer of “The Usual Suspects”, “The Way of the Gun” is more than your regular action picture. There’s a coherent, deep and intruiging script, multi-faceted characters and a good plot.

It’s like Pulp Fiction, but with with more guns.

Speaking of intros, this film has perhaps the most foul-mouthed intro ever seen in a mainstream film. Here’s a taster;

“Bar Patron: Hey, hey. Yeah you, get up. What are you retarded? Get off the fucking car!”

“Raving Bitch: Hey dickless, get off the fucking car! Hey fucksuck, get your slippery fucking ass of the car! Listen to me, get off the fucking car with your fucking ass!”

“Parker: Shut that cunts mouth or I’ll come over there and fuckstart her head!”

“Raving Bitch: You’re gonna wish you never fucking got up this fucking morning asshole, because my boyfriend’s gonna fuck you up! And then after that while he’s fucking up your fucking gay uncle over there I’m gonna fucking cut off your cock and mail it to your mother, you fucking faggot bitch! You gaylord fucking bitch! How do you like that? You like that a lot you fucking faggot? You like to ass fuck? Fontanella fucking babyheads!”

“Bar Patron: Go ahead.”

“Raving Bitch: You like to fuck babyheads? You like to fuck boys? He’s gonna fuck you in the ass, how do you like that? He’s not even gay but he’ll do it just to fuck…”

“Bar Patron: Honey honey. She’s got a big mouth but she’s not kidding. I’m gonna whip you silly and I’m gonna fuck you stupid. You wanna do the man dance? First dance is yours.”

Story

Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Bel Toro play Parker and Longbaugh, a couple of two-bit hoods who visit a fertility clinic to sell their sperm when down on their luck. Whilst there they learn about a surrogate mother to a rich husband and wife couple and formulate the plan of kidnapping her to hold to ransom.

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Jackie goes dark!

Intro

He’s Jackie Chan, you all know him well. For those who don’t, Jackie Chan is what you get when you cross Bruce Lee with a ninja chimpanzee. I’ll admit I’m a big Jackie Chan fan, I’ve seen a lot of his films, from the fantastic “Police Story”, to the dire “Rumble in Hong Kong”. You usually know what to expect from a Chan flick, kung-fu, generic characters and slapstick gymnastics action.

Story

Prepare to be surprised as Crime Story departs immediately from the usual JC formula and instead tells the true life story of how troubled cop Eddie Chan (JC), attempts to solve the complex kidnapping of large Hong Kong business man “Wong”, fighting police corruption all the way.

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“Warriors, come out to plaaaaay!”

Intro

I originally assumed this movie was a serious picture regarding American gang violence in the late 70′s. But I was wrong… “dead wrong.”
Walter Hill’s 1979 masterpiece is more like “West Side Story” with attitude! Let’s get something straight. I love this film. SittingBull loves this film. Bart even loves this film. It”s an absolute classic! It’s perhaps even better than Roadhouse!!!1

Story

A small gang based in Coney Island, the Warriors, travel deep into the Bronx to attend a gang-meeting hosted by Cyrus, leader of the largest gang in all of New York. When Cyrus is shot dead, the murder is wrongly pinned on the Warriors, who must now escape back to their own turf on Coney Island whilst every gang in the city is out looking for their blood!
Along the way, the Warriors are forced to march through various turfs and bash some heads as they seek the quickest way back to Coney.

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“Take it outside.”

This is perhaps my favourite movie of all time. No, I’m not joking. Patrick Swayze hasn’t made a lot of action films and most of the few he has have been big steaming piles of crap. Not so with Roadhouse!

Story

Swayze plays Dalton, the “best cooler in the business” who single-handedly cleans up the roughest, toughest, meanest, gayest clubs and bars across America.

Frank Tilghman, is the owner of the Double Duece in Jasper Missouri, the kind of bar where “they sweep up the eyeballs at closing.” He needs to toughest cooler in the business and hires Dalton to attempt the impossible by working closely with the existing team of bouncers to clean the shithole up.

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“The terror starts the moment he stops.”

Intro

Rutger Hauer is one scary mother-fucker!

Story

Thomas Howell plays Jim Halsey, a young student driving a rental car cross country through the American desert. One rainy night he stops to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker named John Ryder (Rutger Hauer), who soon makes Halsey’s life a living nightmare as he reveals his homocidal tendencies. Halsey only just manages to escape with his life, tearing off into the night, but the game has just begun and it looks like the Hitcher will stop at nothing to hunt Halsey down, no matter who or what gets in his way.

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