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Escape Plan 3: The Extractors (2019) - USA 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. Probably the most unwanted sequel in years comes in the form of Sylvester Stallone’s “Escape Plan 3: The Extractors”. After the simply atrocious “Escape Plan 2”, this follow up is actually a better film, but that’s not hard to pass the mark. The film is saved by the presence of “Ip Man 3” martial arts star Max Zhang who impresses with his Kung fu moves in...

Bulletproof Monk (2003) - USA As part of Film Critics ongoing series - Analysing Chow Yun Fat in Hollywood  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. Chow Yun Fat’s Hollywood follow up of the box office hit “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” took a couple of long years with the well meaning yet mindless entertainment action comedy in music video turned director Paul Hunter’s “Bulletproof Monk”. The odd pairing of Chow with “American Pie” Seann William Scott, provides the film one of...

Review: Love Wedding Repeat (2020) - UK / Italy 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. Bad movies are simply put they are plain bad and first time writer turned director Dean Craig  takes the audience on the most awful cliche genre ride and even have the guts to repeat the audience process again in the Netflix release “Love Wedding Repeat”. There is absolute nothing new in this unnecessary remake of French romantic comedy “Plan de Table”. The real problems crystallised...

Judy (2019) - USA   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. One of the most delightfully beautiful film of the year comes with the bio-pic of the tragic life of the legendary Judy Garland. In making “Judy”, director Rupert Goold manages to hold the pace and interest of the audience by letting Renée Zellweger produces one of her most critically acclaimed performance for a long time. What makes this film works is down to its underlying message and the ongoing...

The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) - USA 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. This is a total disappointment of a film that boasted with an A-list casting and dampened by a hampered script and direction that is all over the place. A lack of vision from the director Dee Rees never settle for a particular genre instead blends a crime thriller, war journalism and illegal firepower trafficking and family drama all into one spiral of a film. There are...