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Dynamite Brothers (1974)
Bad but not that bad.
My second Al Adamson film and compared to "Brain of Blood" this is a masterpiece.
Some terrible acting, atrocious camera work and some truly amazingly bad dialogue combine to make this a bad film.
By far not the worst film I've seen however.
One scene to look out for is when Stud serenades the mute girl with a song. A scene so awful I very much doubt you can avoid cringing or laughing.
Still there's something here for HK action fans as basically its a bad 70's Kung Fu film.
4/10 about sums it up. Watchable but equally miss-able.
Brain of Blood (1971)
Awful
I'm not sure I've ever seen a film as bad as this. Awful acting, All over the place plot, terrible special effects. There are some 'so bad its good' moments in here but not really enough to maintain interest. The woman who plays Tracey looks hideous. There are some fairly worrying scenes with a dwarf which leave you feeling ever so slightly violated. On the plus side the operation scenes are fairly amusing for the special effects as is the car chase where one car is "trying to force us off the road" without actually making contact. Guess the budget didn't stretch to trashing cars. Oh and what looks like a Postcard of the Taj Mahal is shown every time they cut to the fictional foreign country.
Basic (2003)
Contrived
Well, The film starts off fine. We're all on track for your average Hollywood thriller. Not exactly ground breaking stuff but enjoyable enough for killing a bored Sunday afternoon.
Then towards the end the twists start.
I'm guessing whoever wrote it was hoping for some kind of moment of realisation with the flash backs but it just left me cold. Perhaps not, maybe I just wasn't paying close enough attention, perhaps I was supposed to be rivetted to the screen throughout. I wasn't. It wasn't that kind of movie. The silly twist at the end just left me slightly annoyed and wishing I'd spent my Sunday afternoon doing something worthwhile. Still I've seen worse.
5/10
Chin gei bin (2003)
Pretty Decent Fun Film
Well don't expect anything deep an meaningful. Most of the fight scenes are pretty decent. The two leading ladies are quite endearing but their lack of HK action background shows at times. The ending maybe lacks something but I quite enjoyed it none the less. The cheesy humour isn't probably going to appeal to anyone who hasn't watched a bunch of HK films but if your down with that sort of thing and have a couple of hours to fill with something meaningless you could do a lot worse than this. (OK so you could do better but.......)
Certainly on a par with most of the Hollywood blockbuster action drivel.
7/10