Dragon Attack

Starring:Jackie Chan, Brigitte Lin, Yu Wang, Yueh Sun, Tao Da Way, Fang Jung, Shiu Bu Lia, Gou Ling Feng, Adam Cheng, Ling Chang
Director: Yin-Ping Chu
Studio: Vintage Home Ent.
Product Type: DVD
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Jackie Chan makes a brief guest appearance in this surreally goofy action comedy, a high-spirited shambles from 1982 that hovers awkwardly somewhere between Monty Python and The Three Stooges. When all else fails, cult director Chu Yen-ping (Island of Fire) resorts to exploding cigars, guys making funny faces, men dressed in women's clothing, even a ghost or two. The nominal star, '70s kung fu veteran Wang Yu (The One-Armed Swordsman), is an Allied agent assembling a troupe of commandos for a mission behind enemy lines during World War II. (Although the landscape is obviously Asian, there are Hogan's Heroes-style Nazis scampering through the jungle.) Every member of this movie's mismatched clown-squad seems to hail from a different planet, including one inexplicable fellow who looks like an Elvis impersonator in a kilt. Most of the exhilarating action is handled by the glorious Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, from Peking Opera Blues and The Bride with White Hair, who kicks heads and looks smashing in a red-and-black-leather jumpsuit. --David Chute
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Three tales of Kung-Fu heroes!
DRAGON LEE VS. THE FIVE BROTHERS: Dragon Lee joins a band of rebels who seek to overthrow the evil Ching government.
CHINESE HERCULES: After Lee Hsi (Fang Yeh) accidentally kills someone in a fight, he retreats to a small village that is entirely dependent on the traffic that comes into their pier controlled by Boss Chan.
BRUCE LEE FIGHTS BACK FROM THE GRAVE: Wong Han arrives in LA at the request of his friend Go Hok Hung, but when he arrives at the aparment building, he finds that Hung is dead.
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- Imagine "Jaws" in Medieval Times, except with a Dragon
- Young Galen has the hots for a girl dressed like a guy
- DRAGONSLAYER: The movie with the best dragon.
- All Hail Vermithrax Pejorative!
- One of the smallest big-budget films I have seen.
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Dragonslayer
Starring: Peter MacNicol , Caitlin Clarke , Ralph Richardson , John Hallam , and Peter Eyre
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Release Date: 2003-10-21 |
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Despite its box-office failure in 1981, Dragonslayer was gradually recognized as one of the finest fantasies to emerge from the post-Star Wars boom in special effects. It's still one of the best adventures of its kind, featuring one of the most fearsome fire-breathing serpents in movie history. Ominously named Vermithrax Pejorative, this ill-tempered monster terrorizes the peasantry of sixth-century England, feeding on maidens sacrificed by a duplicitous king until a sorcerer's apprentice named Galen (Peter MacNicol, long before Ally McBeal) is recruited as a reluctant hero. Aided by a tenacious beauty (Caitlin Clarke) and his resurrected mentor (Ralph Richardson), Galen confronts the soaring beast in a breathtaking climax. Employing a then-innovative technique called Go-Motion to animate the dragon, the special effects are still dazzling, and stunning locations in Scotland and Wales allow director Matthew Robbins (cowriter of Steven Spielberg's feature debut, The Sugarland Express) to maintain a vivid atmosphere for the wealth of movie magic. --Jeff Shannon
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Imagine "Jaws" in Medieval Times, except with a Dragon.......2007-04-29
I caught about 10-15 minutes of "Dragonslayer" on TV a few months back, which was my first exposure to this film, and I determined right then and there to eventually purchase it. When I finally bought it I watched it TWICE, something I rarely do.
THE STORY: A medieval kingdom is harrassed by a dragon, apparently the last of its species. The people decide to appease the horrific beast with regular sacrifices of virgin maidens. The virgins are selected through a questionable lottery system. When the King's daughter is picked for sacrifice, the monarch employs a sorcerer's apprentice, Peter MacNicol, to slay the dragon.
"Dragonslayer" takes the "Jaws" route by not fully showing the beast until well into the second hour of the film. Prior to that revealing moment the film expertly builds up a heap of horrific anticipation concerning the creature. The first virgin sacrifice scene is particularly terrifying. When we finally DO see the monster it's definitely not a let down. Many viewers attest that this dragon is the best dragon to ever appear in film, even though the picture was made in 1981.
I've heard some complain that the protagonist, MacNicol, was wrong for the role. Nothing could be further from the truth. He's easy to relate to because he's a flawed human being with naive, boyish qualities, not a larger-than-life superhero (like, say, Conan or Beastmaster). I've also heard some complain that the heroine, Caitlin Clarke, is too "man-ish" looking. Well, duh, that fits into the whole sacrificial lottery plot. When Caitlin ultimately and uncertainly dons a dress and make-up she's woman enough.
The Dark Age sets/costumes/locations really impressed me. If you're in the mood for a top-of-the-line medieval flick with castles, dungeons, forests, villages, fair maidens, kings, sorcerers, etc. this is the one to see.
"Dragonslayer" was an inexplicable flop when it was released in 1981, perhaps due to the glut of similar-themed pictures at the time. Regardless, it can now be treasured on DVD. It took me over 25 years to witness its magnificence but I finally did.
Young Galen has the hots for a girl dressed like a guy.......2007-04-17
Galen goes a trip, when his master is killed.
DRAGONSLAYER: The movie with the best dragon........2007-04-03
I was 9 years old when this movie first came out in 1981, but I never got to see it. DRAGONSLAYER has both excellent production values and outstanding special effects that still hold up very well today. The set locations (Scotland and Wales) I found to be especially beautiful and attractive and very fitting for the medieval feel of the picture. The film's dragon, creatively named "Vermithrax Pejorative", is wholly convincing and adds immensely to the story and, I think, is the STAR of the show. The pyrotechnics (fire effects) are also handled superbly throughout. Dennis Muren was Visual Effect Supervisor for DRAGONSLAYER. The previous year (1980) Muren had worked on George Lucas' THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK and the following year (1982) he supervised E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL for Steven Spieldberg.
The only real drawback to the picture, I think, is the casting for the lead; Peter MacNicol. MacNicol's presence as a young dragon-slaying hero is weak and just does not fit him. He's not the hero type. I would've much rather seen someone like Matthew Broderick play the part. The means by which the dragon is destroyed is also disappointing. He's not killed by the DRAGONSLAYER, but by an exploding wizard (?) ... I don't get it. The DVD also does not have any extras, no trailers, no making-of features and no commentaries, just the bare bones. Regardless, the film is worth seeing, if not just for the outstanding dragon effects.
All Hail Vermithrax Pejorative!.......2007-03-28
I was eleven when this film came out, and it was instantly one of my favorites - and still manages to be.
The dragon Vermithrax is hands down the best dragon ever created for film. There has not been a single movie with a dragon since that has managed to create the look and feel of what a dragon should be better than Vermithrax. Reign of Fire's creatures were close, but Vermithrax takes the title.
On that note, I can't help feel sorry for the old girl. Sure, people think she's evil, but really she was just a mother looking out for her young. Little ones gotta eat, y'know. People aren't always the top of the food chain, something we always seem to forget.
A good family movie if your kids are say 11 or older. Yes, there's violence, yes, there's a baby dragon gobbling up a girl (eating through her ankle more specifically) but it's no more violent or gory than the recent LOTR movies.
If you love Dragons, you'll love Dragonslayer.
One of the smallest big-budget films I have seen........2007-02-28
"Dragonslayer" is one of my favorite 1980's fantasy pieces. Sadly, it was obscured by the bigger flicks--"Clash of the Titans," "The Dark Crystal," "Never-Ending Story" and the perennial "Princess Bride,"--plus the other bigger-budget SF films, Star Trek II-V and Star Wars V-VI. For me, I like that it is not the big budget spectacular that the other films were, and did not have the distracting all-star gala-feel that "Titans" had. Similar to the City of Reno, it is the one of the smallest big-budget films I have seen.
Hence, we are treated to two unknowns--Peter MacNicol (Ghostbusters II, Alley McBeal, 24) and Ian McDiarmid (Emperor Darth Sidious) in a "don't blink or you'll miss him" role as Brother Jacobus. Lucas would agree--this enhances the story, since you focus on the film, rather then the distracting game of "Where's Waldo" that familiar faces can breed.
The film is essentially a milieu piece--the faux Middle English middle England that is the basis for all post-Tolkien fantasy. But the theme is the arresting thing: it is about the corrupt leadership that makes a deal with the devil (or the dragon in this story) to keep the peace at the price of a pentannual sacrifice of a fair virgin.
This deal itself is corrupt--suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune instead of taking up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them--but the corruption runs deeper. First, the king and other nobility exempt their daughters, sending the peasant girls instead. Much like wartime drafts.
The second issue is how this set up affects Valerian. When her father disguises her as a boy to avoid the draft-lottery, he inadvertently alienates her from herself and he sexuality. When she dons the dress at the effigy-burning, she embraces who she is, especially her sexuality. The dance with Galen is symbolically obvious.
Lastly, Casiodorus Rex is so base, so superficial that he claims credit for slaying the dragon. In retrospect, this was to be expected.
This film is full of heroics. We have Galan mantleing himself as a wizard--no angst, no refusals of the call, but brash gusto. Valerian courageously end-runs around the corrupt king and hires a dragonslayer. The Blacksmith forges the spear behind the back of said corrupt king. (This is a perfect Daddy-Daughter team-up.) Princess Elspeth gives her life in order to save the peasants--a reverse Marie Antoinette. And then Ulrich the Wizard takes James bond's advice and dies twice to slay the dragon.
The coda-ending was a gag, but the gag worked, since it rounded out the theme of the corrupt system, and Galan and Valrian turning their back to the whole mess, and making their way . . . and with magic in the air.
The special effects still stand up. Instead of doing the Harryhausen stop-motion (as was done in "Titans"), they opted for go-motion, puppetry, and animation. The overall effect is eerily realistic, and aportent of things to come. In fact, the SFX stand up to the next great dragon movie, "Reign of Fire."
The film is rated PG, but I suggest a PG-13 rating, due to the graphic deaths of Princess Elspeth and Brother Jacobus (the gnawing lizardlings and the charred body were too much), and the "revealing" skinny-dipping scene. Parents beware.
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- ARACHNIA meets LAKE PLACID
- I want my 92 minutes back!
- Smells of Elderberries...
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- UGGGH!!!!
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ASIN: B0002XL30Q
Release Date: 2004-12-14 |
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ARACHNIA meets LAKE PLACID.......2006-05-01
Just one geneticly engineered komodo dragon goes around a small island attacking people, either eating them or turning them into zombies (I'm being completely serious here).
There's almost no gore, below average acting, writing, and special effects, and some uncalled for, not to mention out-of-place, nudity.
Stay away if you don't want to bring yourself 92 minutes closer to death. Life is too short for cruddy movies like this.
I want my 92 minutes back!.......2005-05-31
Absolutely the worst plot - OK, maybe tied with Solarbabies as the worst plot ever.
So let's get this straight. You're a genetic scientist, you get your secret governmental funding from some upstart Navy commander who pays for your project out of petty cash and that empty coffee can next to the bottled water, you create giant carnivores to feed the world, left your daughter trapped on a deserted island with afore mention beasts for a meeting that you could have used your 1920's era two way radio for, power the "electric fence" and your only defense with a Honda generator the size of a shoebox, just happen to keep extra guns and explosives in that old shack a few miles away, know how to assembly any weapon but cant hit the broad side of a barn, just happen to keep some grain alcohol on hand for those downtrodden commando helicopter pilots that stop by for brunch, and you cant wait to sacrifice yourself to save the love of your life.
Right...... It all becomes so clear now.
Smells of Elderberries..........2005-05-13
This film stinks, there is just no way around it. Nonetheless, I had to give it two stars for incredible creativity in the face of overwhelming adversity. Truly, this is an amalgam of about five different concepts all put together in a blender. The plots concern (in rough order of importance): a military operation headed by a brilliant scientist and his daughter/niece (there seems some confusion on that point in the script) to grow giant komodo dragons the size of school buses alternately for military operations or as a food source to feed the world's hungry (Ponder.); a bunch of dimwitted casino robbers who serve to chew the scenery and in turn be chewed by the komodos; a government conspiracy plot having to do with bombing civilians; a couple of would-be love stories that go exactly nowhere; and a confusing object lesson about the importance of good transmission maintenance in helicopters.
Of course this mostly takes place on a deserted island inhabited by CGI lizards, and takes us past brief glimpses of beautiful waterfalls and pointless nudity that is so utterly predictable, yet illogical, as to be totally laughable. The computer generated lizards aren't the worst I have seen, honestly; and to be frank, some of the acting isn't too bad (I'm thinking of the scientist and the helicopter pilot here.)
The film is entertaining in a silly, B-movie manner. It is really not high in production values (I am especially fond of the use of obvious stock footage and sticks with lights on them representing an electric fence) but is fun in a quirky, schlocky kind of way.
Curse of the Cheap Knockoff.......2005-01-13
Fake blondes, fake boobs, fake broad--and a realistic-looking reptile that's treated so unrealistically that the characters appear to be shooting at a theme-park dinosaur! Thousands of rounds are blasted at the behemoth without it sustaining a single nick. The firing goes on and on, as though the director is struggling to fill an allotted time frame. (Other snail-paced sequences include a bra-less, cavorting babe and a macho mesmerized by an overflying aircraft while a copter offers a quick sprint to survival.) The viewer's sympathies are bound to veer toward the beast, which somehow manages to gulp down the hapless without squirting out a drop of blood. And then there's the germ-zapped zombies who pop up like actors who stumbled onto the wrong set. The creators of this miserable flick should have let the mostly competent actors simply ad lib the whole production. Then, no doubt, the audience would have been spared the absurdity of an is-something-wrong? line in the midst of a life-or-death debacle!
UGGGH!!!!.......2004-09-07
"Night of the Komodo" poses quite a few questions to the viewer, like what is the bigger thing in this movie, the Komodo, or the breast implants adorning the female stars, or could it be the false eyelashes also found on our damsels in distress? Another question posed; is red an actual eye color? The hero/head casino robber/muscle bound star looks like he just finished toking up before each scene and his eyes were the bloodiest part of this lame flick. The storyline is assinine, a doctor supposedly trying to create giant food, mistakenly creates these giant Komodo dragons instead, chalk that one up in the ooops column. I should have known better than to buy this turkey, but it was only $2 used, so once again I was subjected to a direct to video, "hey guys I borrowed my brother's camcorder let's go make a movie", lame excuse for a film. You know your in trouble when the movie begins and it's shot on video and not film!!! Avoid this thing at all cost!
Average customer rating:
- I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday
- Cyber (Yawn) Tracker
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Cyber Tracker
Starring: Stacie Foster , Richard Norton , and Don "The Dragon" Wilson
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I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday.......2005-09-19
I've seen hundreds of Sci Fi movies over the years. This is one of those you'll wonder whether you've watched it or not a few years down the road. You just can't remember.
All in all, I figure it's still better to watch a so-so Sci Fi movie than "Dances With Wolves" or "Evita". This movie will end up being non-memorable, but it's preferable to being in a coma.
Cyber (Yawn) Tracker.......2004-06-06
Watched this DVD after gettin it for free, laughable poor boring action movie, trys to be a Arnie, Sly, action epic, from the same era, but fails terribly in all departments, I realise the movie is dated, but that doesnt account for the abismal acting and meaningless and boring plot, a great film to fall asleep to or to recommend to someone you don't really like, overall i think 1 star is being too generous for this movie but i couldnt rate it any lower!
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- GREAT! B-Movie Weirdness! Nazis, Japs, Amazons, and Kung-Fu!
- An Offer Jackie Couldn't Refuse, But Maybe You Should
- What a piece of %$#@! Has almost NO Jackie Chan.
- UH!!!
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Dragon Attack
Starring: Jackie Chan , Brigitte Lin , Yu Wang , Yueh Sun , and Tao Da Way
Director: Yin-Ping Chu
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Release Date: 2004-06-29 |
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Jackie Chan makes a brief guest appearance in this surreally goofy action comedy, a high-spirited shambles from 1982 that hovers awkwardly somewhere between Monty Python and The Three Stooges. When all else fails, cult director Chu Yen-ping (Island of Fire) resorts to exploding cigars, guys making funny faces, men dressed in women's clothing, even a ghost or two. The nominal star, '70s kung fu veteran Wang Yu (The One-Armed Swordsman), is an Allied agent assembling a troupe of commandos for a mission behind enemy lines during World War II. (Although the landscape is obviously Asian, there are Hogan's Heroes-style Nazis scampering through the jungle.) Every member of this movie's mismatched clown-squad seems to hail from a different planet, including one inexplicable fellow who looks like an Elvis impersonator in a kilt. Most of the exhilarating action is handled by the glorious Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, from Peking Opera Blues and The Bride with White Hair, who kicks heads and looks smashing in a red-and-black-leather jumpsuit. --David Chute
Description
Three tales of Kung-Fu heroes!
DRAGON LEE VS. THE FIVE BROTHERS: Dragon Lee joins a band of rebels who seek to overthrow the evil Ching government.
CHINESE HERCULES: After Lee Hsi (Fang Yeh) accidentally kills someone in a fight, he retreats to a small village that is entirely dependent on the traffic that comes into their pier controlled by Boss Chan.
BRUCE LEE FIGHTS BACK FROM THE GRAVE: Wong Han arrives in LA at the request of his friend Go Hok Hung, but when he arrives at the aparment building, he finds that Hung is dead.
Customer Reviews:
Great Trash.......2006-12-16
Pauline Kael once said that movies are so rarely art, that if you can't enjoy great trash, there is not much point for one to go to the movies. Well, this demented film is trash of the greatest order, a movie so bad it's wonderful. It stars Hong Kong luminaries Jackie Chan (in a small role, despite its prominent billing role) and Brigitte Lin, and unlike Ed Wood movies, this film is deliberately bad, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining.
GREAT! B-Movie Weirdness! Nazis, Japs, Amazons, and Kung-Fu!.......2006-07-04
One of the best B-movies, crazy kung-fu, WW2-ish, fantasy. Truly bizarre plot, nazis & japanese attack ;? canada? capture 4 generals - one from france, one from England, one from Africa, and one from america - Abraham Lincoln!, take them to Luxumboug! the army choses guy captain to form a team to rescue them. including the escape artist guy, the explosives guy, the old west Elvis impersonator guy, his psycho girlfriend, weird asian Scottish highlander guy, and his sidekick dressing in roman armor. Jackie Chan is a theif the team runs into and he helps - some. they are captured by Amazones, escape a haunted house, and finally have a show down with the 70's car chariot riding Nazis & Japs. Most everyone dies. Jackie revenges them. bizzare and sureal plot, quite a bit of good kung-fu action. lots of B-movie sets, and costumes. just great! taking it for what it is
An Offer Jackie Couldn't Refuse, But Maybe You Should.......2005-08-12
Bottom line: Jackie Chan owed Jimmy Wang Yu a favor, but apparently so do a lot of people. I wouldn't recommend this movie, but do recommend reading about how it came about in Jackie's autobiography "I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action".
What a piece of %$#@! Has almost NO Jackie Chan. .......2005-03-27
Last June I had an operation and I was on morphine for several days. This movie could have been a weird dreams I had. It certainly isn't entertaining, intelligent, functional, or anything. It makes no sense, has no humor, has very little action, has no point and goes downhill from worthless. A few minutes into the movie, it turns into something else and has no explanation how it got there.
It reminds me of some of the stories I have heard of movie albums that were required under a contract even though the singer/band was fed up with the company. They come up with the absolute worst album they could come up with. This movie could fit into that category. It is painful to watch even a few minutes.
For the person who put this in the same category as Naked Gun, I disagree.
UH!!!.......2004-06-18
Could someone tell me what this movie is about. No one that's what I though. There is magic in this movie the person that does Jackie's voice must have swalloed helium before he did Jackie's voice, Jackie is there for two seconds the quality sounds awful and so do the gun shots and the back cover is not even straight. so please DON'T REMIND ME OF THIS MOVIE AGAIN and for your sake DON'T BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- GOD BLESSED THE EARTH WHEN HE SENT US CYBER TRACKER
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Starring: Don 'The Dragon' Wilson , Richard Norton , Stacie Foster , Joseph Ruskin , and John Aprea
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ASIN: 630523275X
Release Date: 1998-12-15 |
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In the near future, computerized justice handles the apprehending and execution of dangerous criminals in the form of Cybertrackers, cyborgs that look like a cross between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mr. Clean. Secret service agent Eric Phillips (Don "the Dragon" Wilson) runs afoul of these alloyed androids when he's set up for the murder of an underground rebel fighting for a kinder, gentler form of mechanized law enforcement. Phillips joins the rebels, and together they kickbox their way toward wresting control of the judicial system from the hands of the stick figures who run it. Along the way, vehicles and androids alike blow up real good. This is Robocop with kickboxing instead of a cynical sense of humor. --Jim Gay
Customer Reviews:
GOD BLESSED THE EARTH WHEN HE SENT US CYBER TRACKER.......2000-02-02
what else can i say but.....perfection. My faith in sci-fi was damaged with movies like terminator (1&2) The alien series and other horrid movies like predator. But low and behold a blessing comes in the form of CYBER TRACKER. This is the best movie i have ever seen, I will never understand why it was not nominated for oscar(s) It could have won in any catergory drama, comedy, action, and romance. Don the dragon Wilson gives possibly the best performence since John gertyue in Killer clowns from outer space. From the looks of it GOD himself did the special effects, not since Toxic avenger 4 have i seen effects like these. They were 2 say the least captivating. Not to mention the score James horner knows nothing about music compared to this guy. I dont know what else to say, you have to check his gem out for your self. and if you have time check out CYBER TRACKER2, CYBERNATOR(which is included in the great sci-fi double pack with cybercity) and cyborgcop please e-mail me back with your own personal reviews oh yeah it's a great country when you can get BIRD ON A WIRE, CYBERTRACKER, AND LEORNARD PART 6 ON DVD, BUT CANT GET STARWARS INDIANA JONES, FORREST GUMP, OR JURASSIC PARK AMONG OTHER CLASSICS THANX ALOT MR. LUCAS AND MR SPEILBERG COCK
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Attack Pack (Predator / Kiss of the Dragon / Commando)
Starring: Jet Li , Bridget Fonda , Tchéky Karyo , Max Ryan , and Ric Young
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ASIN: B000AQ69C2
Release Date: 2005-11-01 |
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Disc 1: "Commando" Disc 2: "Predator" Disc 3: "Kiss of the Dragon"
Customer Reviews:
Great collection!.......2006-02-25
Not only a great 3-pack, but also an excellent way to add to your collection and save a few bucks over buying the titles individually.
If your a fan of these movies, you can't go wrong!
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Cybertracker
Starring: Stacie Foster , Richard Norton , and Don "The Dragon" Wilson
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Release Date: 2007-01-01 |
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- Great comedy, great action equals great movie.This movie is all of the above with just one little problem.
- cooler than coolers revenge movie
- This is Ok
- good story, great fighting, bad voice for 13
- Do anything you want with your money... except buying this.
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Dragon Ball Z - Super Android 13! (Edited)
Starring: Isamu Tanonaka , Yukimasa Kishino , Banjô Ginga , Hideyuki Hori , and Ryûji Saikachi
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ASIN: B000083C4Z
Release Date: 2003-02-04 |
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When the peace of a routine day is interrupted by violent explosions it seems like the world is under siege! But Goku quickly realizes that he is the target of the sudden attack! Who are these strange assassins? When Goku discovers that despite their great power, the culprits are not emitting an energy signal, it can only mean one thing: Androids . . With Doctor Gero dead, who is responsible for master-minding this new wave of Androids that are stronger, faster, and ten times more deadly than before? . . The mystery unravels itself as the Android Assault begins!
Customer Reviews:
Great comedy, great action equals great movie.This movie is all of the above with just one little problem........2005-10-22
First-The comedy-The beginning was great, three idiots at a beauty contest before it begins and poor future Trunks gets dragged along not even knowing why he's there and he looks so cute when he's blushing.That part when super android 13 punched Goku in the nuts was pure gold, I laugh everytime I think about it.The ending was probably the funniest, when Piccolo and Vegeta are stranded on a block of ice but what I don't like about that part was that they know how to fly.Couldn't they have just flown away,geeze.Second-The Action-It was pretty damn good, Trunks was great in the action.He looked so totally tight when he was fighting Android 14 or 15, the big guy whoever he is but(ummmm I'm getting besides myself so I'd better not give away anymore sorry)!!!!!
cooler than coolers revenge movie.......2004-06-03
I had the chance to see it before it was in store i ordered the japenese version it was awesome especially the new androids it is a must buy
This is Ok.......2004-04-16
I rented this at first and loved it. I bought didn't like it as much. It has a good story and fighting, but it seemed alot shorter than the other DBZ movies( This one is only 45 minutes long and most of the other ones are around an hour). This movie is one of the best( up there with Broly and Cooler) but it could of been longer,
good story, great fighting, bad voice for 13.......2003-11-10
this is my fav. DBZ movie and i have to say the fighting in this one is great, and the final attack that kills 13 is the best attack ive seen from DB/Z/GT. the only thing i hate about this movie is the voice for 13, what the H3ll were they thinking!?! but of cource you can just watch the jap. verson and its all good. its still worth buying, so get it now
Do anything you want with your money... except buying this........2003-09-14
DBZ is one of my favorite animes ever. And it even is what got me into other anime. So I'm really upset to see its name brandished on this piece of trash. This DBZ movie is pure crud, apparently, someone spit on a movie script and passed it off as a film. The movie is so horrible, with none of the stuff that made DBZ good, with third-rate jokes, bad fighting(way below DBZ standards) and horrid music. Want to know what's really bad, though? That you know how horrible a movie is when the tacky English dub is actually BETTER than the original Japanese version! Paying some guy $25 to punch you in the face is actually a better choice than purchasing this hunk of garbage.
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- ARACHNIA meets LAKE PLACID
- I want my 92 minutes back!
- Smells of Elderberries...
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Curse Of the Komodo
Starring: Tim Abell , Melissa Brasselle , William Langlois , Gail Harris , and Paul Logan
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ASIN: B0001EQI42
Release Date: 2004-12-14 |
Customer Reviews:
ARACHNIA meets LAKE PLACID.......2006-05-01
Just one geneticly engineered komodo dragon goes around a small island attacking people, either eating them or turning them into zombies (I'm being completely serious here).
There's almost no gore, below average acting, writing, and special effects, and some uncalled for, not to mention out-of-place, nudity.
Stay away if you don't want to bring yourself 92 minutes closer to death. Life is too short for cruddy movies like this.
I want my 92 minutes back!.......2005-05-31
Absolutely the worst plot - OK, maybe tied with Solarbabies as the worst plot ever.
So let's get this straight. You're a genetic scientist, you get your secret governmental funding from some upstart Navy commander who pays for your project out of petty cash and that empty coffee can next to the bottled water, you create giant carnivores to feed the world, left your daughter trapped on a deserted island with afore mention beasts for a meeting that you could have used your 1920's era two way radio for, power the "electric fence" and your only defense with a Honda generator the size of a shoebox, just happen to keep extra guns and explosives in that old shack a few miles away, know how to assembly any weapon but cant hit the broad side of a barn, just happen to keep some grain alcohol on hand for those downtrodden commando helicopter pilots that stop by for brunch, and you cant wait to sacrifice yourself to save the love of your life.
Right...... It all becomes so clear now.
Smells of Elderberries..........2005-05-13
This film stinks, there is just no way around it. Nonetheless, I had to give it two stars for incredible creativity in the face of overwhelming adversity. Truly, this is an amalgam of about five different concepts all put together in a blender. The plots concern (in rough order of importance): a military operation headed by a brilliant scientist and his daughter/niece (there seems some confusion on that point in the script) to grow giant komodo dragons the size of school buses alternately for military operations or as a food source to feed the world's hungry (Ponder.); a bunch of dimwitted casino robbers who serve to chew the scenery and in turn be chewed by the komodos; a government conspiracy plot having to do with bombing civilians; a couple of would-be love stories that go exactly nowhere; and a confusing object lesson about the importance of good transmission maintenance in helicopters.
Of course this mostly takes place on a deserted island inhabited by CGI lizards, and takes us past brief glimpses of beautiful waterfalls and pointless nudity that is so utterly predictable, yet illogical, as to be totally laughable. The computer generated lizards aren't the worst I have seen, honestly; and to be frank, some of the acting isn't too bad (I'm thinking of the scientist and the helicopter pilot here.)
The film is entertaining in a silly, B-movie manner. It is really not high in production values (I am especially fond of the use of obvious stock footage and sticks with lights on them representing an electric fence) but is fun in a quirky, schlocky kind of way.
Curse of the Cheap Knockoff.......2005-01-13
Fake blondes, fake boobs, fake broad--and a realistic-looking reptile that's treated so unrealistically that the characters appear to be shooting at a theme-park dinosaur! Thousands of rounds are blasted at the behemoth without it sustaining a single nick. The firing goes on and on, as though the director is struggling to fill an allotted time frame. (Other snail-paced sequences include a bra-less, cavorting babe and a macho mesmerized by an overflying aircraft while a copter offers a quick sprint to survival.) The viewer's sympathies are bound to veer toward the beast, which somehow manages to gulp down the hapless without squirting out a drop of blood. And then there's the germ-zapped zombies who pop up like actors who stumbled onto the wrong set. The creators of this miserable flick should have let the mostly competent actors simply ad lib the whole production. Then, no doubt, the audience would have been spared the absurdity of an is-something-wrong? line in the midst of a life-or-death debacle!
UGGGH!!!!.......2004-09-07
"Night of the Komodo" poses quite a few questions to the viewer, like what is the bigger thing in this movie, the Komodo, or the breast implants adorning the female stars, or could it be the false eyelashes also found on our damsels in distress? Another question posed; is red an actual eye color? The hero/head casino robber/muscle bound star looks like he just finished toking up before each scene and his eyes were the bloodiest part of this lame flick. The storyline is assinine, a doctor supposedly trying to create giant food, mistakenly creates these giant Komodo dragons instead, chalk that one up in the ooops column. I should have known better than to buy this turkey, but it was only $2 used, so once again I was subjected to a direct to video, "hey guys I borrowed my brother's camcorder let's go make a movie", lame excuse for a film. You know your in trouble when the movie begins and it's shot on video and not film!!! Avoid this thing at all cost!
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