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Film Review: Return Engagement 再戰江湖 (1990) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 8/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is a moment late in “Return Engagement” when the camera lingers on Alan Tang’s weathered face as he steps out of prison after twenty years, the Vancouver sky gray and indifferent above him. In that single, unhurried beat, the film announces what it truly is: not just another bullet ballet...

Film Review: Killers from Beijing 僱傭兵(2000) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 7/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is something stubbornly appealing about the rough-edged Hong Kong action films of the early 2000s — those straight-to-video warriors that arrived after the golden age had faded but still carried the old DNA of loyalty, betrayal, and bullet-riddled honor. “Killers from Beijing” is one such specimen: modest in budget, uneven...

Film Review: Troublesome Night 7 陰陽路柒撞到 (2000) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 5.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com There is a certain charm to Hong Kong’s long-running Troublesome Night series, those scrappy little supernatural comedies that treat ghosts less like terrors from the grave and more like nosy neighbors who just won’t let the living get on with their MTV shoots. The seventh entry, Troublesome Night 7 (or Yin...

Film Review: Walk In 奪舍 (1997) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 6.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ ★ Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com In the gloriously chaotic world of mid-1990s Hong Kong cinema, where genres collide like cars in a freeway pileup, Herman Yau’s “Walk In” arrives as a supernatural body-swap comedy that never quite decides what it wants to be — and somehow that’s part of its scruffy charm. The premise is pure Category...

Film Review: Troublesome Night 6 陰陽路之兇周刊(1999) - Hong Kong Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) I rated it 5.5/10 Rating: ★ ★ 1/2 Support my reviews by buying me a Coffee! https://buymeacoffee.com/neofilmblog Support our reviews by buying from official DVDs / Blu Rays at NeoFilmShop.com The Troublesome Night series has always been the cinematic equivalent of a late-night ghost story told over too many beers in a Hong Kong dai pai dong—sometimes silly, sometimes genuinely unnerving, and almost always uneven. By the time we reach the sixth installment (also known as Yin Yang Road: Murder Weekly), the...