This movie is mostly style with a bit of substance thrown in to keep it held together. Really a guy movie through and through, not saying female won't enjoy it, but it is clear aimed at the masculine audience. The core of Bunraku is of two drifters coming into a town ruled by an aged bad ass and his gang of killers. Each drifter has their own ( Read more... )

Not in such a long time have I disliked, then liked, and then disliked a movie all at the same time. The contradiction is do to the movie being made up of three separate tales that make up the storyline. They are all interconnected, linked by the creation of a cleaver made from the ore of the weapons of the deadliest warriors in the land ( Read more... )

I left feeling really let down by this low budget giant monster flix. I really didn't except much, and the movie kind of failed to deliver that. I knew it was low budget, I knew it only stared two people, I knew they didn't spend a ton of money on high end effects. But in the end the movie was more of a road movie love story then a horror movie. ( Read more... )

If you are a fan of Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung fight choreography, or HK martial arts film in general this is a must see film. The film is based on the Detective Dee novels, from what I gathered the original story was written in the 18th century China, Then in the 1950's through the 1960's more stories were written. The stories are fictional accounts of ( Read more... )