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Dragon and the Hawk DVD

Dragon and the Hawk DVD

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: LOW INTENSITY, SNORE PACKED ACTION!!!
Review: Ok, this one time, I watched this show on TV where two guys from Kentucky were having a mouth-harp duel, and it was the lamest thing I ever saw.
Until I saw this.
The plot and action sequences were so engrossing that ten minutes into the film, I found myself distracted by an interesting piece of lint mined from my belly-button.
After about twenty minutes, my attention was wrenched from my lint activities by the dying wail of a fly on the TV screen committing suicide (very haunting).
Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a bad, campy martial arts flick, but the cheesy dialogue, flat characters and mechanical fight scenes this travesty vomits at the viewer are beyond human (and apparently fly) limits.
My advice would be to forget about purchasing this student film project.
Save your money and wrangle up some belly-button lint of your own! It's free, more entertaining, and altogether more worthy of your time, attention and contemplation than anything this cinematic sweat sock has to offer.
Probably more hygienic too.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Back to basics
Review: This film had a good amount of martial arts which were obviously performed by the actors themselves. Very rare in this day and age. It seems anymore that there are standins for this or standins for that but when a movie like this comes along it is nice to see some very talented martial artists who are able to apply their martial prowess on film. This film was also a fantastic display of action without relying on the typical blood,gore and nudity shown in quite a few other films of the same genre. It is refreshing to see some high caliber fighting and very good acting in a low budget film. I would recommend this film to anyone who misses the days of just plain old martial arts action.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Back to basics
Review: This film had a good amount of martial arts which were obviously performed by the actors themselves. Very rare in this day and age. It seems anymore that there are standins for this or standins for that but when a movie like this comes along it is nice to see some very talented martial artists who are able to apply their martial prowess on film. This film was also a fantastic display of action without relying on the typical blood,gore and nudity shown in quite a few other films of the same genre. It is refreshing to see some high caliber fighting and very good acting in a low budget film. I would recommend this film to anyone who misses the days of just plain old martial arts action.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great low budget action!
Review: This was a well produced low-budget action movie! Good story, good characters, and above all it was just fun!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Worst Action Film ever
Review: This was possibly the worst movie I've ever seen. In one scene it went from winter to spring and back. The fight scenes were down right funny. maybe the actors should of watched A Rocky film to see how to throw a punch. in the end I feel it is best to save your money and watch old reruns of Batman

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This movie's the perfect example of how not to make a movie
Review: What happens when you take a hackneyed, b-grade comic book plot, and cross it with wooden acting and slow, boring fights?

You get The Dragon and the Hawk.

I've been a fan of kung fu flicks for years, and this one ranks just under Fists of Legend 2 for the worst Kung Fu movie I've ever seen. The actors visibly wait for their turn to star speaking, then they spend so much time trying to remember their lines that they manage to suck out any possible emotion. To compund matters, the dialogue is trite and blatantaly banal whenever possible, so the only emotion you can experience is irratation any time someone opens their mouth. Even the supposedly humous parts are killed by the frankenstein quality acting exhibited by all involved in the production.

But then who cares about the writing in a kung fu movie? It's the action you're there to see right? This movie fails to deliver in this category as well. Fights are slow, poorly coreographed, and the last few sequences take place in locations that are so dark, it's hard to see what's going on. The music blows as well.

I can't see any reason to claim this movie's good. It has no redeeming qualties at all. When there's stuff like Jackie Chan, and Jet Li out there, or even David Carradine's Warrior and the Sorceress, there's absolutely no reason to bother with this one unless you just need something to make fun of Mystery Science Fiction Theater style.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Fit for MST3K
Review: Yikes!
Never before have I seen such a poorly developed plot, negligent editing, and a haphazard, undeveloped group of characters shoved into one suffering film. I would NOT reccomend this film. Overall, this film falls way short of meeting the standards of the beloved low-budget martial arts flicks of yesteryear.
20 years down the line, the makers of this film will sound like Adam West when he claims that the Batman series was "all for fun" and "not to be taken seriously."

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Fit for MST3K
Review: Yikes!
Never before have I seen such a poorly developed plot, negligent editing, and a haphazard, undeveloped group of characters shoved into one suffering film. I would NOT reccomend this film. Overall, this film falls way short of meeting the standards of the beloved low-budget martial arts flicks of yesteryear.
20 years down the line, the makers of this film will sound like Adam West when he claims that the Batman series was "all for fun" and "not to be taken seriously."


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