China O'Brien

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Summary: Fun, early Norton and Rothrock adventure
Review: "China O'Brien" demonstrates the chemistry between martial artists Richard Norton and Cynthia Rothrock in an early co-starring effort that would ultimately make them a team in demand
for fight movie fans. This agreeable adventure casts Rothrock
in the lead, as she campaigns for town sheriff, with Norton as
her most loyal ally. It's a winning movie that laid the founda-
tion for later films for the pair such as "Rage and Honor" and
"Lady Dragon." It's a pleasure to return to a movie that, among
others, helped to promote the careers of two terrific stars!

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Summary: Watch it as a comedy
Review: As long as you go into this movie knowing that it's terrible: bad acting, bad "effects," bad story, bad... everything, then you'll love it. This is one of my favorite "goof on" movies; watch it as a comedy and have a dozen good laughs!

Rating:
Summary: Watch it as a comedy
Review: As long as you go into this movie knowing that it's terrible: bad acting, bad "effects," bad story, bad... everything, then you'll love it. This is one of my favorite "goof on" movies; watch it as a comedy and have a dozen good laughs!

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Summary: So close, and yet so far away........
Review: China O'Brien stars Cynthia Rothrock as a big city gendarme who returns to her itty bitty home town when her father decides to retire as the local sheriff. Of course, the bad guys give him a dose of the ol' Lead Pension plan and before you can say Hackneyed Plot Point China is running for sheriff so she can bring in the desperados who gunned her Daddy down! She joins forces with that same Australian karate guy thats shows up in most of her movies(like Tiger Claws) and a one handed, motor cycle riding Indian kid who had a hand chopped off by the same guys what iced Daddy O'Brien.(These evil dudes are busy. Maybe the local Villains Union is understaffed) Everything is pretty typical and if you like Cynthia then you'll most likely enjoy this flick. However, if you aren't more than a casual fan of the star or genre, look elseware. The acting is waaaay too stiff. If the actors had lightened up and Rothrock was allowed to show some personality and charm the movie could have had some genuine appeal. That's all it needed.

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Summary: Do you like bad movies?
Review: Cynthia Rothrock is China O'Brien, an LAPD martial arts instructor who resigns from the police after killing a kid. She goes home where her dad is the local sheriff. Dad gets killed and she runs for sheriif. Then it is all mindless fighting. The fight scenes are awful. China beats fat trailer trash who sail backwards every time she flicks out a kick.

This is a so bad it is good kind of a movie. You just laugh through it. You know: Hey why is that guy speaking in an Australian accent all of a sudden? Sure a three hundred pound guy is going to sail 10 feet from Cynthia's kick.

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Summary: This movie was the reason I started Tae-Kwon-Do!!
Review: Cynthia Rothrock was one of the reasons I started doing Tae-Kwon-do.I got to red belt and won a few sparring tournaments,though the storyline is campy,the martial arts performance is excellent!I also recommend all of Bruce Lee's movies and Best of the Best 1 for martial arts fans who like old school fighting!!

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Summary: My, oh my...
Review: My wife rented this recently just so that she could see Keith Cooke, a martial artist whose work she admires. (He's of mixed Japanese and American descent, but he plays a Native American martial artist here.) Do not see this for the plot, the acting, the setting, or if you like movies with characters you actually care about. Do see it if you want to watch a female martial artist beat the snot out of a bunch of rednecks. There is no other point to this movie.

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Summary: Welcome to female butt kicking.
Review: With Cynthia Rothrock taking on the american film industry, starring as China O'Brien, a karate teacher, whom resign s her badge/gun after a alley-way shooting, returns home to her "sheriff" father. After witnessing her father been killed, she decides to campaign for her fathers position as sheriff, vowing to clean the town of all its corruption, she enlists the help of her young sweetheart, played by fellow blackbelt Richard Norton (whom she stars in numerous films after) helps clean the town, with their extreme talent of martial arts, only seen in most hong kong movies, (minus the dubbed dialogue, of course). This is a must for all martial arts like me.