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Summary: Wacky? Yes. Satire? No.
Review: Let me repeat what I've written earlier : This film is garbage. Incomprehensible garbage. Utterly useless garbage. Take the worst film you've ever seen, remove anything you ever liked about that film, and you get another film ten times better then WICKED CITY.This is a film to avoid. Repeat that to yourself OUT LOUD, right now. "This is a film I need to avoid." When you pass it at the video store, repeat that to yourself out loud. Don't worry if people hear you - If anything, maybe they'll get the clue and avoid it, too. If you're lucky, maybe the video store will stop carrying the film, thereby averting possible disaster for tens of people who might be tempted to rent this video and waste their precious youth watching it.
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Summary: ODing ON DELIRIUM
Review: Maximum velocity adrenaline fuels the 1994 Hong Kong live-action rehab of the anime watershed. It's got enough juice to jack up half a dozen movies. And it's so frantic and rampant, you'd have to stop midway to catch your breath. Set in a Hong Kong strangleheld by an economic cartel of alien shapeshifters, it follows two alienbusters, played by Jackie Cheung and Leon Lai, as they get to the bottom of a bodycount of junky wormfood. The gunhappy set pieces will , of course, unhinge your jaws. And this is packed with more ideas than Roland Emmerich and Jan De Bont's combined past/present/future ouevre. But director Mak Kit Tai doesn't have a clue what to do with them. Much like Emmerich and De Bont, really. So. When in doubt,overcompensate. Mak then revs everything up to a hyperbolic bluster where one alien hatchetman becomes a killer clock and another disguises itself as punch and still another morphs into a horny pinball machine, a carnivorous elevator and a Giger-like motorcycle-woman. Amazing on paper but it all plays a losing round of catch-up with the hit-and-miss (but mostly miss) special effects. When it gets to the climactic , and laughable, airborne duel between two aliens mounting hijacked 747s, exhilaration becomes exasperation and you're never sure if you're gasping in awe or just starting to gag. Camp delirium cranked up to 11, without a doubt. But I'd stick with the anime.
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Summary: ODing ON DELIRIUM
Review: Maximum velocity adrenaline fuels the 1994 Hong Kong live-action rehab of the anime watershed. It's got enough juice to jack up half a dozen movies. And it's so frantic and rampant, you'd have to stop midway to catch your breath. Set in a Hong Kong strangleheld by an economic cartel of alien shapeshifters, it follows two alienbusters, played by Jackie Cheung and Leon Lai, as they get to the bottom of a bodycount of junky wormfood. The gunhappy set pieces will , of course, unhinge your jaws. And this is packed with more ideas than Roland Emmerich and Jan De Bont's combined past/present/future ouevre. But director Mak Kit Tai doesn't have a clue what to do with them. Much like Emmerich and De Bont, really. So. When in doubt,overcompensate. Mak then revs everything up to a hyperbolic bluster where one alien hatchetman becomes a killer clock and another disguises itself as punch and still another morphs into a horny pinball machine, a carnivorous elevator and a Giger-like motorcycle-woman. Amazing on paper but it all plays a losing round of catch-up with the hit-and-miss (but mostly miss) special effects. When it gets to the climactic , and laughable, airborne duel between two aliens mounting hijacked 747s, exhilaration becomes exasperation and you're never sure if you're gasping in awe or just starting to gag. Camp delirium cranked up to 11, without a doubt. But I'd stick with the anime.
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Summary: What a stinker!
Review: Possibly the worst movie in all of creation. A sad live action version of the great anime feature. Ed Wood would not have touched this production with a ten foot pole.
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Summary: HONG KONG BEST SFX FILM,exciting to watch.
Review: Probably the best SFX I ever saw from HK productions.(uptill now.) the director did a good job with a small budget. compare to Hollywood million dollars production. It was brilliant.
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Summary: Wicked City
Review: The comic book action is what makes the backbone of this movie that is based on the manga. The plot involves a woman from another dimension and a human policeman from earth who are trying to keep the peace between their races by preventing an assasination and staying alive in the process. There are subplots involving policeman's partner being part human and part preturnatual beastie keeping his evil wild side in check while helping him and the woman out; the love story between the policeman and the woman; and all of the characters questioning where their loyalties lie. I highly recommend this movie to anime and manga fans.
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Summary: HORRIBLE
Review: This is a big miss. An inexcusably convoluted plot and laughable effects. Tsui Hark still employs the same look, fx, and, apparently, budget that he used to make movies ten years earlier, and the movie suffers greatly because of it. It all seems thrown together like some last minute school project you had a month to work on but ended up doing nothing until the night before it was due. Avoid this movie and instead watch the anime it was based on.
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Summary: Don't even waste your time
Review: This is by far the worst transition of a decent story to film. It by no means holds true to the spirit of the anime. It only accomplishes mass amounts of "sucktitude" as it butchers everything that made the anime slick and enjoyable. Save your cash.
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Summary: Don't even waste your time
Review: This is by far the worst transition of a decent story to film. It by no means holds true to the spirit of the anime. It only accomplishes mass amounts of "sucktitude" as it butchers everything that made the anime slick and enjoyable. Save your cash.
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Summary: Lots of great cheese in this movie.
Review: When I first saw Wicked City, I was bit disapointed in it because I had seen the anime by the same title first. I had expected it to be of the same story line except with live action. Well the anime version was a better story, but the cheese factor in this movie just makes me want to grab a bowl of popcorn and veg out on the couch. It's special effects are a bit low budget but they are fun to see.
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