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Film Review: Force of Nature (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 04/365 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   “Force of Nature” was a tough one to sit through, despite tagging along Hollywood A-list Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch in leading roles. The film directed by Michael Polish suffers from poor pacing, editing and an nonexistent storyline that fails to be as intensifying as the hurricane itself....

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...

Film Review: Greenland 末世綠洲 (2020) - USA Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 02/365 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   As with most disaster epic pictures, there is always an element of the inevitability of what’s going to happen. “Greenland” manages to entertain by focusing on the key characters and their livelihood situations making it a well rounded survival experience with an end of the world scenario playing out in front of...

Film Review: Kim Ji Young: Born 1982 (82년생 김지영) (2019) - South Korea Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 01/365 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   There is a lot of striking raw emotions running in the Kim Do-young’s directorial debut, “Kim Ji Young: Born 1982”, based on Cho Nam-joo’s bestselling autobiographical novel. What makes the film better presented, is how the film allows time for the characters to go about...

Film Review: Leap 奪冠 (2020) - China Reviewed by Andrew CHAN (Film Critics Circle of Australia)   Help me reach one review per day in 2021.  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     Director Peter Chan continues his trend of creating inspiring Chinese stories about human achievements and friendships. In “Leap”, Chan make the most of the atmospheric and nostalgic 1980s China backdrop on the verge of opening up to the world. It is without doubt that sporting dramas based on real life stories with nationalistic pride is a...