Review, buy Martial Arts: Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Knockouts, Vol. 5 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Blade [1995], Marked for Death [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Billy Jack [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Samurai Collection Featuring Sonny Chiba: T.I. Samurai/Legend of the Eight Samurai/Ninja Wars (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ultimate Fighting Championship 57 - Liddell vs Couture 3, 2000 AD, The Postman Fights Back [1981], Fury Of The Dragon [1976], Iron Monkey 2, Lone Wolf and Cub: TV Series, Vol. 3 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Invisible Target [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sleeping Fist, Kung Fu Master [1994], Iain Abernethy's Combat Drills [2007], EliteXC: Street Certified - Kimbo Slice vs. Tank Abbott [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ultimate Fighting Championship 41 - Onslaught, Bas Rutten: Extreme MMA - Instructional Box Set, Ninja The Protector [1986], Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin [1978]

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Review UFC / First Look Studios / Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Knockouts, Vol. 5 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Ultimate Fighting Championship: Ultimate Knockouts, Vol. 5 [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (UFC / First Look Studios)

Actors & Directors

Mike Goldberg
Anthony Giordano

Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Andrew Hamilton
Price: £7.09

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Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / The Blade [1995]

The Blade [1995] (Mia Video Entertainment Ltd)

Actors & Directors

Collin Chou
Hark Tsui
Man Cheuk Chiu
Moses Chan
Xin Xin Xiong
Valerie Chow

Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: ~~£17.99~~
Price: £17.99

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Review 20th Century Fox / Marked for Death [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Marked for Death [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (20th Century Fox)

Actors & Directors

Joanna Pacula
Dwight H. Little
Steven Seagal
Keith David
Tom Wright
Basil Wallace

Release date: 2002-05-21
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £3.28

Review Marked for Death [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:

The glowering brutality that is aikido head-banger Steven Seagal's substitute for a star persona at least gives us a rancid taste of authenticity in Marked for Death, a cookie-cutter action picture. This glum lug seems really to enjoy hurting people; he snaps limbs and shatters noses with visible relish. Pitted against a gang of Jamaican gangsters who invade his (white ethnic) Chicago neighbourhood and threaten his family, retired DEA agent John Hatcher sets out to solve the case with robotic efficiency, kicking butt in just about every scene. Not quite as pudgy in this 1990 outing as he became a few films later, Seagal looks like the genuine, lethal article in the fight sequences but like a hopeless amateur when he tries to act his way out of the waterlogged-paper-bag of a script. So what else is new? The one bright spot here is Basil Wallace, a mostly unsung actor who throws himself into the showy role of the Rasta gang-boss Screwface, a garishly scarred psycho with piercing ice-blue eyes. -David Chute, Amazon. com.

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Review Warner Home Video / Billy Jack [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Billy Jack [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Paul Bruce
Susan Foster
Lynn Baker
Bert Freed
The Committee

Release date: 1999-06-22
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: John M. Stephens
Price: £2.85

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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / The Samurai Collection Featuring Sonny Chiba: T.I. Samurai/Legend of the Eight Samurai/Ninja Wars (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Samurai Collection Featuring Sonny Chiba: T.I. Samurai/Legend of the Eight Samurai/Ninja Wars (REGION 1) (NTSC) (BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company)

Actors & Directors

Sonny Chiba

Release date: 2006-11-21
Run time: 375 min.
Price: £5.23

Review The Samurai Collection Featuring Sonny Chiba: T.I. Samurai/Legend of the Eight Samurai/Ninja Wars (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:

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Review Ultimate Fighting Championship / Ultimate Fighting Championship 57 - Liddell vs Couture 3

Ultimate Fighting Championship 57 - Liddell vs Couture 3 (Ultimate Fighting Championship)

Release date: 2006-06-05
Run time: 191 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £7.60

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / 2000 AD

2000 AD (Contender Entertainment Group)

Actors & Directors

Aaron Kwok; Phyllis Quek; James Lye; Daniel Wu (II); Gigi Choi; Hoi Lin; Ray Lui; Francis Ng; Ken Lo; Yu Beng Lim; Wenyong Huang; Cynthia Koh; Shucheng Chen; Keagan Kang
Gordon Chan

Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £1.98

Review 2000 AD / Contender Entertainment Group:

2000 AD reunites Aaron Kwok and Andrew Lin from the ferociously pyrotechnic Black Sheep Affair (1998) for a slick but muddled Hong Kong/Singapore co-production conspiracy thriller about computer espionage. Kwok and Lin make fine adversaries, and have one excellent martial arts battle on a vertigo-inducing rooftop. Otherwise the action involves powerfully staged Heat-style gun play rather than martial arts, one set-piece car chase/shoot-out being strongly influenced by the Riviera pursuit in Ronin (1997). Beginning as a serious thriller, Kwok's nerdish computer games designer transforms into an invulnerable action hero, and any sense of plausibility is sacrificed for regulation mayhem. Cluttered with more characters than it knows what to do with, 2000 AD combines aspects of The Net (1995) and Entrapment (1999) into a largely nonsensical plot. Lin's villain is given vital information which later he is completely ignorant of. We never find out exactly what he is planning, or who he is really working for, and in one mystifying sequence he crashes the Singapore stock exchange, yet the event has absolutely no effect on anything. Though the cast is engaging and the direction polished the finale is an anti-climax, symptomatic of a highly entertaining movie which promises more than it delivers. On the DVD: The 1. 77:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is clean and generally free from grain; the Dolby Digital 5. [+]

1 audio is as powerful as any heard on a Hong Kong movie, although listen though headphones and a fair degree of background hiss is clearly audible in the quiet scenes. The film can be viewed with the original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles, or dubbed into English. Either way, a surprisingly large amount of the original dialogue is in English. There is a 19-minute "making of" documentary, though this is bland made-for-television promotional fare. Much better is the 14-minute interview with director Gordon Chan and a 17-minute interview with Andrew Lin who reveals how once shooting had begun his originally heroic part was re-written to make him the villain, thus explaining why the plot makes so little sense. Best of all is the commentary by Chan and Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan, which is packed with information about the movie, Hong Kong cinema and filmmaking in general. By itself it makes the DVD a worthwhile purchase. -Gary S Dalkin.

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