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THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!! - highly recommended


this film is an absolute technical masterpiece
beautiful, hilarious, stupid, fun = unforgettable
absolutely amazing how imperfect-perfect tour-de-force it is
the most lunatic and insane film you can ever see, irresisible
i can't believe that it's not at least in top 100, unbelivably underrated
It's not for sophisticated critics, awards or cynics, of course, but it's an amazing entertainment that is also the work of art in its own twisted way.

THOSE WHO STILL DIDN'T SEE IT, BUY IT IMMEDIATELY!!!

Tsui Hark is an absolute genius, his painter's eye for detail and color, mastering of camera lenses, his sense for style, and especially his incomprehensible imagination which is a true wonder to see at work like here.

sometimes stupid film doesn't directly mean that it also has to be a bad film, you just gotta have an acquired special taste for this kind of a movie.

any comments?

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You are Kidding right?

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its a good movie, fun and the action is pretty good.. but not NEAR the best

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Forgive me for asking. But did you have a few drinks while you were watching?

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i exaggerated it a little bit but otherwise i think it's very misunderstood film and seriously tell me if you have seen a film like this before.
Tsui Hark is also a painter and big fan of comic books, so this crazy film isn't anyhow surprising from him.

note: i was really sober when watched it, but i presume maybe intellectuals should get pretty hammered in advance, it could help.

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I can't help but i must partially agree
it's one of the most enjoyable films i have ever seen
it unbelievable fodder for your imagination, i think there should be more films like this

just one spoiler: maybe Tsui Hank should have done this without any American so-called actors, Jesus, even Van Damme is better than those wrestlers.
But it's otherwise very very interesting vision from this genius.

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I have to disagree with you there, buddy. I didn't like this movie it was such a huge disappointment even with having Tsui Hark and Yuen Woo Ping involved. Though having looked into this a little bit, it seems it was trying to emulate the comic very closely. Plus you kinda get the feeling they where hoping to get some sort of televison series out of this.

I think the film could have been without the little kid, the whole animal DNA thing, the wrestlers,Traci Lords and the film should have had a better story,more fights and JET LI!


"I don't live in the 23rd century, I @#$%ing hate The Next Generation"

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THis film is the first i've ever rented and never finished watching. It is that *beep* bad.

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I may have been pretty baked when I saw this, but it's definitely a oddly good action/martial arts movie. About half-way through I was noticing that the fight choreography was pretty great, so I looked it up and read that Yuen Woo Ping was the martial arts director. Anyway, it may not be the greatest movie of all time, but I definitely think it's a successful, and bold, action movie.

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It's not really good at all; it is actually embarrassing to admit how much fun it was. See it. It is enjoyable, but you might want to watch it alone, so you don't have to admit to anyone that you liked it - something like a bad sitcom that you would never admit amused you, but which did.

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This movie was horrible! The acting was bad, the effects, if you can call it effects, were just rubbish.

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It's a really good film, but is quite interesting what a lot of people still don't know that everything that looks kinda lame, fake, bad (including actors) is intentional. It's this childish aesthetic that is so attractive, for example try to ask some 8 year old kid if he liked this film, you'd be pretty surprised!It's definitely one of the better Tsui Hark's films, that's for sure. And really very misunderstood film, that's a FACT!











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it's the childish aesthetic that looks so attractive? you do realize anybody can make a bad movie like Black Mask2. a Misunderstood film? no just a really bad movie.

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Sometimes a bad movie(as u claim) is much more difficult to make than a good movie. That's also a fact.

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uhhh okay... because making bad movies is really hard right? watch uwe boll movies
watch any movies on the bottom imdb... right it's really so hard to make bad movies.

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This moovie was Brilliant! I laughed my fooking arse off!

See my other comments HAHAHAHAHA! AHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

I still laugh my buttocks off when I think about Certain parts of this moovie. A-HAHAHAH!

Plus, Traci Lords is STILL hotter than $hi-ite!

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I think if you don't care about the actual plot or how well the acting is, but focus on the comic book style and martial arts scenes, and even the cheesy special affects, then its a fun movie to watch. Its kind of like the movies with Bruce Campbell in them, they are just fun to watch.

A man can change his stars

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