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Film Review: Invincible Swordsman 笑傲江湖 (2025) - China Rating - 5/10 2025 Review Count - 50 Support my goal of writing one film review per day in 2025 - https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) The curse of the remake haunts “Invincible Swordsman”, a film that lunges at the legacy of “The Swordsman II” (1992) with all the grace of a novice stumbling through their first sword form. Directed by novice Luo Yiwei and shepherded by producer Wong Jing—a name synonymous with Hong Kong cinema’s vibrant excess—this reimagining of “The Smiling, Proud Wanderer” saga feels less...

Film Review: The H.K. Triad O記三合會檔案 (1999) - Hong Kong Rating: 6/10 2025 Review Count - 49 Support my goal of writing one film review per day in 2025 - https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) The late Clarence Fok’s “The H.K. Triad” opens with a promise of moral rot, a Hong Kong underworld parable where loyalty is a currency as fleeting as a triad boss’s reign. Fok, no stranger to lurid excess (“Naked Killer”), teams with producer Wong Jing to craft a tale that aspires to the operatic grit of Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”, but stumbles under...

Film Review: A Killer's Expiry Date (殺手再培訓) (1998) - Hong Kong Rating: 6/10 2025 Review Count - 48 Support my goal of writing one film review per day in 2025 - https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Tagline: A middling but earnest entry in Hong Kong’s crime canon, worth watching for Lai’s performance and its haunting snapshot of a city—and a man—caught between eras. Yeung Yat-Tak’s “A Killer’s Expiry Date” is a film that flirts with poignancy but never fully commits to it—a crime drama caught between the grit of Hong Kong’s underworld and the sentimental...

Film Review: Assassin Club (2023) - USA / Italy Rating: 5/10 2025 Review Count - 47 Support my goal of writing one film review per day in 2025 - https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Tagline: “Assassin Club” is the cinematic equivalent of a fast-food burger—filling in the moment, but leaving no lasting flavor. Golding’s performance is the secret sauce, but even he can’t disguise the stale buns. In “Assassin Club”, director Camille Delamarre serves up a dish reheated from the action-thriller leftovers of yesteryear—a plate of clichés seasoned with gunfire, double-crosses, and the inevitable “one...

Film Review - The Prosecutor 誤判 (2024) - Hong Kong / China Rating: 8/10 2025 Review Count - 46 Support my goal of writing one film review per day in 2025 - https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Tagline: "Justice Unleashed: An Epic Collision of Law and Action" Donnie Yen’s “The Prosecutor” is a film that crackles with the urgency of a filmmaker who has waited decades to exorcise a story from his soul. Yen, both in front of and behind the camera, channels the kinetic precision of his action-hero legacy into a narrative that’s as...