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Film Review: Crocodile Island 巨鱷島(2020) - China Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 03/365 https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Buy me a coffee ☕️ or two to support our Asian cinema film reviews since 2004! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog     Guilty popcorn pleasure is what you can best describe the Hong Kong star Gallen Lo led giant monster disaster film “Crocodile Island”. Replicating the success of Hollywood similar genre films with “The Rock” or Jason Statham (think “The Meg”), this low budget highest grossing Chinese made web-release contains all the...

Fong Sai Yuk: The Beginning (新方世玉前传侠者无畏) (2020) - China As part of the ongoing Film Critics - Martial Arts series - “Discovering the world of Martial Arts cinema” Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. With big boots to fill, the latest reboot of folk legend hero “Fong Sai Yuk”, made famous by Jet Li and Vincent Zhao in the 90s, it’s probably timely that the Chinese streaming giant takes an interest. Casting the fairly uncharismatic Narisu Bai in the title...

Review: Eternal Wave 密战 (2017) - China Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Aaron Kwok headlines the 1930s Shanghai fight between the Communist party and the Japanese pending invasion in “Eternal Wave”. Like many of these similar themed movies, the story is similar only this time, we are talking about the importance of radio waves transmission as the only means of communication for the fight of the Communist party members. The film lack strong characters for the audience to relate...

Kung Fu Yoga 功夫瑜伽 (2017) - China / India Reviewed as part of Jackie Chan's 66th Birthday Celebration Series Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. The biggest problem with recent Jackie Chan movies is mainly the lack of fun element. If the fun and physical comedic is not there especially for a film like “Kung Fu Yoga”, most viewers are bounded to be disappointed. Similar in the line of “The Myth” and “CZ12”, Chan goes on an Indiana Jones style...