Henchwomen Fight

In 2025 movie Reckoning Day AKA 清算. Actress Han Zeyi plays as villainess Sakura Koi.

This movie looks awesome, it starts with some kind of ritual, and the ones making the ritual like cut themselves then make the blood pure in a cup, then drink it and spray it, like WTF..

Damn, it seems like a gang of the Chinese resistance, hope we get awesome fights, the concept is really cool.

Ok, they gave us awesome fight, like absolutely amazing, but it seems like the fight will happen later on, and I kind of hate that, like, why you keep the movie going till we reach the fight instead of breaking the immersion, and we can't even enjoy the full fight scene or enjoy the story till it leads to the fight scene, like you can do it that in the trailer, but not within the movie.

Let me tell you this, if the west was in control of China, movie like this would be banned, that's how much creative freedom Chinese artists have compared to the west, and here's why, think about the history between China and Japan, there's no way western censors would let a movie like this to be made, they will never let any entertainment company to show anything livable or downplay how horrible living under Japanese occupation was, like, this whole movie will be banned, the lighting, the costumes, the casting, the story of this movie will never be permitted, and whoever say otherwise, I'm sorry, you are too brainwashed to see it..

It seems like two gangs fighting each others, and some sane guy went like "We are brothers, we shouldn't fight each others, and someone went from behind and impaled him..", like whenever I see people fighting and thinking on intervening to stop it, this scene will play in my head and will go like "Nope" LOL!

We see the first villainess paying respect to a late gang leader..

I don't know why the movie feels rushed, it's about 2 hours, it should give you a plenty of time to introduce the characters and build the world, like the uncle of the heroine was just shot, like he just came and went, and I think the male villain behind it, which would be ok, if it's organized in a way to build the character of the heroine, being like having a quite life, then go to meet her uncle, then it happened and go from there, but the movie prevented such transition of the character, it already predicted that, she had to leave to Shanghai because she's no longer safe, like it already preemptively gave away the sense of danger by saying she's already in danger, instead of not giving us such info and introduce us to the sudden attack and her loss of her uncle to make us reach the conclusion of her being in danger, then build on that.

We see the gorgous villainess when she caught the heroine while eavesdropping.

Finished 1 hour, and I don't get it, the movie starts with gang that kind of a resistance movement, like some very interesting and exciting introduction, and it seems they were sidelined, and now everything is focused on the heroine assassinating bad guys, like revenge movie, like what happened to the movement? Why there aren't any other active characters? And the best fight scenes are of people who don't play active roles, and those who are supposed to be the main villains their fights ends in moments, they are barely affordable enemies, it's like the movie giving itself too much to chew, too many characters, with so little active roles, the fight scenes are awesome, but it could be better, and could've made the movie move in certain direction and also it's hard to understand what is drive the story forward, like I get it's revenge, but is it about her uncle, or is she part of the Chinese resistance and her goal to liberate her people is what inspire her, it's not clear, she also don't contact anyone from the resistance, so we can say it's the liberation motive, like what the end goal, and also the gang at the start of the movie was talking about protecting heritage or something, so one assume we would have the villains going after a treasure and the end goal for the gang to stop it, and the end goal for the villains to acquire it, it feels like the motive behind the story is sacrificed in exchange of fight scenes, which as awesome as they are, and they are awesome, the movie lack the motive for the characters, both villains and heroes, or at least isn't made clear or compelling.

  Anyway, the movie gets better and better the more I watch it, we later learn that the heroine is actually the heir of the gang, I don't know if they mentioned it before, maybe they did but I didn't pay attention due to how many things happening in a short period of time and how rushed the movie was to push us towards that end.

Hou Tongjiang playing Elder Hong is doing excellent work, like his charisma and facial expression, really great actor and would love to see him more, yet, and that's not the fault of the actor, but after he exposed Cheng the movie destroyed his charisma, like he made him ran towards the poisoned crown as if he's an idiot, being an elder should make him more reasonable and wise, not like some impulsive character.

Apparently now we know what the Japanese were after, like some old relic, the movie didn't establish how important this is, or what it means, which should be the focus of the plot, and why the heroine have to get it back, and fight for it..

The heroine is cool TBH, she's like an update on Lara Croft, and her fight scene and her outfit towards the end is really cool.

So, she entered the tunnel and stepped into a trap by Japanese soldiers, nice gun fight, but then the soldier's chairman just gave himself to the heroine to use him as a hostage, like first she stepped into a trap, and in a second the problem is solved by the gang stepping in, like she wasn't like trapped or out of ammo or injured or anything, so, their presence feels weightless, and then while they are fighting she gets another free gift by having a Japanese simp giving himself to take him as a hostage, even more weightless, like it's not like they were overpowered, and about to die, so he can be a solution of a hard situation, and after all of that, it didn't even matter because they had a shootout and defeated them anyways, like, what was even the point?

Just finished the movie, that was one of the greatest movies I've seen for years, I get that the story could be much better, but if you watched it as pure action movie, it's awesome, something like John Wick, and I would say it's even better, and if the story was more contained, it would be amazing, I wanted to find more info on the gorgeous actress who played the main villainess, and this clip is all I've got, so, check it out and check her wholesome performance, and her angelic voice. 

Absolutely stunning and talented actress, like just watch the movie, watch this clip, and see how she manged to master totally different roles with completely different characteristics, that's real acting 💖💖💖.

Really fun movie, the effects are awesome, the fights are awesome, the movie ended and I still want more of it, that's what make a good movie different from a bad one, a good movie ends while you still want to keep watching, and anticipating the next movie to come, while with bad movies, you may even not finish the movie because how boring it is, still I wish if the movie focused more on the gang, and made mystery about it, like the way they were introduced, I was expecting them to be like Assassin Creed, but they did so little to push the movie forward.  

In 2024 movie Panda Plan. Actress Aleksandra Smirnova plays as villainess Vivian. A Jackie Chan movie in 2024, so, what I expect is the movie will be fun to watch, Chinese artists have way more creative freedom and less censorship than western counterparts, so, at least I expect it to be fun to watch, at the same time, it's a Jackie Chan movie, so I can't help but to compare it to other masterpieces that Jackie gave to the cinema, so the bar is so high in such aspect, so, let's start the movie and see.

Damn, the movie have Arabs, and their Arabic is awful, but it's fun to watch, like there's an entertaining value when creators make actors try to speak Arabic, but while not speaking Arabic, they make it as how they think Arabic sound like, it require more talent than actually being able to speak Arabic, as they have to pretend and show emotion while saying things that actually mean nothing and they know it means nothing to them, it's harder than it seems, respect.

The movie starts with great stunt work, it's basically Jackie filming a movie in the movie.

Ok, I laughed, some of the blood squibs that Jackie wore from the movie scene burst in the face of the director LOL.

We see our villains around 18 minutes, god, this movie is awesome, it's so fun to watch. Like the villain stuck in his way to stealthy attacking the security LOL.

I can't get over the idea they made the Panda in CGI, like, it's possible to make it using practical effects especially that it's like a main character in the movie, like I know it's a plot tool, but still, it's better if you give me the illusion that I should care about the panda, but being CGI, it kind of make it irrelevant, especially if I can easily detect it. 

I'm sure Bassem Khayati is playing one of the villains in the movie, yet he's not mentioned anywhere, even in the credits.

Damn, 30 minutes in, and this movie is wholesome, like the fight scene between Jackie and Temur Mamisashvili who play Jameson in the movie is so fun.

Around 44 minutes, one of the heroes attacked some big villain and tried to take the gun from him, and he lifted him with the gun and fired in the air, I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂.

Around 56 minutes the heroine bit our villainess after Vivian went after her and the panda.

Around 59 minutes, the heroes tried to escape with the panda, and rode a lifter, and the villains went after them, and Vivian pinched the nipple of one of the heroes LOL.

The final fight starts around 1 hour 25 minutes, you can watch it here..

Damn, ending the movie with emotional theme..

The movie is way better than expected, like the premise of the story is incredibly stupid and doesn't make sense, for example, I don't think the panda is an animal someone would want to own, like, I think the Chinese government itself have a hard time to take care of it, so, whoever want to own it, would have to make as much efforts and even more to take care of it, but it really doesn't matter, the movie was fun, it's not made to overthink it, it's a fun entertaining movie made for fun and entertainment, and god, it delivers it, I wouldn't say it's of the best of what Jackie made, but the bar is so high that it's unfair to compare a 2020s movie with a Jackie's classic, but if you watch it as standalone movie, I promise you will have fun watching it.

In 2008 movie The Forbidden Kingdom. Actress Bingbing Li plays as villainess Ni Chang. The first time I watched this movie, I was very excited, like Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the same movie, like two of the greatest marital artists of their time sharing the same screen, I absolutely forgot what this movie is about now, which I think is a good thing since it's a rewatch, so it's kind of watching it as a new movie.

Ok, Jason Tripitikas, who is kind of the main character in this movie traveled into a different world, from what I see, it's China, China is the most beautiful country on earth, no wonder the Chinese people have so much creative freedom and most decent movies and even video games come from China. I had enough money and get old enough to retire, I would prefer to spend the last of my years in China in a beautiful place like the one in this movie, then I can go out in peace.

I really don't get, if China and other countries near China like Nepal have such insanely beautiful landscapes, why western studios film their movies outside China, then try to cash on it in the Chinese box office, if you want to compete with Chinese movies, at least film some of your movies and TV shows in China, If your biggest market is USA, and your second biggest market is China, it makes so much sense to film in such amazing landscape. 

Finished 30 minutes, and wow, that was insanely good, so wholesome, like you can never make a movie like this today due to western censorship.

We are being introduced for the first time to our gorgeous evil witch after Jade Warlord summoned her to keep The Monkey King from being resurrected.

We see Jet Li once again around 37 minutes, apparently he's playing two characters in the movie.

God, Jackie making a conversation with Jet Li, like, it's so amazing..

The fight that follows is amazing, the Choreography is insanely good, you can watch it here.

We first see our evil goddess around 45 minutes mark..

This scene is hilarious.

Around 50 minutes mark, Golden Sparrow played by the beautiful actress Yifei Liu, tells us about her backstory, which make me think, this movie would make a great TV show, only instead of keeping giving us flashbacks and backstories, just make them in order, like build a world with all the characters, take characters like Golden Sparrow for example, and make the character grow up while at the same time the Monkey King challenges The Jade Warlord, and the season ends with The Jade Warlord triumph, then you introduce the character of Jason Tripitikas, that would be awesome, but in order for it to work, it need to be made by true artists and western thought police should stay as far from it as possible.

 The climax of the movie starts around 1 hour 18 minutes..

Wow, that was awesome, what an awesome experience, that's what is called a movie. It's like a century ahead of anything made today.

In 1959 movie Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Actress Scilla Gabel plays as villainess Toni.

Been a while since I updated the blog, which because it's also been a while since I watched movies, it's not like there's anything to watch, most of I watch for a while is rewatching something I watched once before, I guess it would be nice to watch something new, and by new I mean something so old yet I never watched before.

 I guess the movie started with the villains stealing something from some African village, I don't know, it's not clear what's going on..

But the fonts in this movie looks so cool, like, this movie is made 66 years ago, it's unbelievable how modern and cool the fonts looks even today..

We see our villainess just after the villains reached the boat, it's 50s movies, so the villainess probably have a small role, still, at least the movie will probably be watchable.

So, Tarazan is basically a colonizer and the bad guys are informal colonizers, good cop bad cop I guess..

It's really fun to watch Sean Connery in such unique role, 

 Around 17 minutes, Tarzan basically slaughtered a poor crocodile in order to save the heroine, it seems Tarazan in this movie isn't very animal-friendly one.

TBH, the character that I enjoy watching the most in this movie is O'Bannion played by Sean Connery.

I'm so grateful to Sean Connery for this movie, and many other movies he made, it's  RIP 💔💔💔.

So, Tarzan went after the villains and followed their trace, yet, they were aware of that, and both Slade and O'Bannion set a trap for him, yet with the help of the heroine, Angie Loring, Tarzan manged to avoid the trap and both Slade and O'Bannion escaped.

The accent of actors in this movie is very interesting, like is that how people talked in 50s movies?!

Tarzan shot O'Bannion with an arrow around 51 minutes, and here it goes my favorite character in the movie, LOL..

Yet after O'Bannion was shot, Tarzan wasn't far better and he was wounded badly, so the heroine found him, and went to get some help, so, the only way to help him was to sneak into Slade's boat to get him medicine, thankfully our beloved villainess was there guarding the boat to make sure that the good guys don't try to steal anything, and manged to detect the heroine, the heroine tried to escape with the stuff she stole, and Toni shot multiple shots with her rifle, finally Slade caught Angie and now she has to face injustice and be held accountable for her good actions.

That was stupid, like the heroine was freed minutes after she was captured, and Toni fell into a trap just afterwards around 1 hour 5 minutes..

The movie is made about 7 decades ago, so, I was expected to be as unwatchable as modern western movies, but it's not as bad, it's like western movies regressed a century, and this is still ahead of them, the story and the action isn't great, but at least with the music, and the visuals, it's decent, like the scenes from the forest, and drowning in the mud, and the crocodiles and such, it's interesting to watch something that old, it's like travelling back in time..

Sadly both Sean Connery and Sara Shane who plays the heroine in the movie left our world recently, and I'm thankful for them for the good time I had watching the movie..

In 2023 movie The Comeback AKA 零号追杀. Actress Lu Wei AKA 魏璐 plays as villainess Ling Jiu.

Been a while since I watched a Chinese movie, so, let's hope this one is fun to watch..

Ok, the movie starts with the villainess killing some guy between her thighs, that's very promising, very fast and kind of sudden tho, still, that's so cool.

Damn, the main villain in the movie, I assume, has like a laser wire, and the fight scenes, god, it's awesome, haven't seen something like that in ages. I hope the movie is more than just cool fight scenes.

The visuals in the movie are really cool, it reminds me of dystopian movies from the 90s..

16 minutes in, and now I feel like I'm watching a different movie, let's see how things will connect, although story-wise, I have no idea what was the fights at the start of the movie were about, they looked cool, still felt out of context.

Ok, this is fun, it seems like substory of the movie, a group of gangsters want to force the people of the neighborhood to sign away their homes in order to demolish them, probably paid by some company, and as a short story it's really good.

We see our villainess again around 38 minutes, still the origin of Hua isn't revealed yet, hope it worth the wait.

The movie uses sound effects that are similar to Dark, which sometimes feel unfit for the scene, like with some scenes with just normal dialog, and sometimes fast action scenes..

Andy On is absolutely the star of this movie, and when I say a male villain is the star in a movie that has a really good villainess, it means the actor playing the male villain is really really good.

1 hour 8 minutes now, and I can't deny it, China is one of the few last bastions of creative and artistic freedom in the world.

The final fight starts around 1 hour 20 minutes..

The movie exceeded my expectations, I thought it will be sanitized, bloated and lame at first, but it was actually really fun to watch.