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My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)

by Stoo on Jan.29, 2009, under Reviews

MyNeighborsTheYamadas

Plot: The Yamada’s are the typical city family, mum, dad, two children and a their grandmother. The movie is made up of over twenty different episodes from the Yamada’s live. Everything from accidentally leaving their young daughter at a shopping mall to the mysterious ‘Moonlight Rider’ saving members of the family from Gangsters. (continue reading…)

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Running Out of Time (1999)

by Stoo on Jan.24, 2009, under Reviews

RunningOutOfTime

When a criminal master, Peter Cheung (Andy Lau) finds out he has under one month to live. He decides to burgle a major Diamond Trading Company and plans to avenge the death of his father, who passed away a year before. Peter holds the manager hostage and insists on seeing a negotiator. Not just any negotiator, he wants to see Ho Sheung-Sang (Lau Ching-Wan).

Ho soon arrives and is informed about the situation. When negotiating with Peter, Peter tells Ho that he’s going to be playing a game with him for the next 72 Hours. The rules are simple Officer Ho has those 72 hours to arrest Peter, if Ho mange’s to get Peter to the Police station, Game Over, Ho Wins…

Although Peter begins to sending clues to Ho in hope that Ho will catch up with him. (continue reading…)

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The Corrupter (1999)

by Stoo on Jan.13, 2009, under Reviews

Corruptor

Plot: Detective Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is a extraordinary cop who is one of the most decorated officers in the NYPD. Although his fame comes at a price, he is linked closely with the Triads in Chinatown. His job now is to keep the ongoing gang war between the Tong and Fukinese Dragon Triads at bay.

Chen receives a rookie cop by the name of Daniel Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), Chen isn’t happy with new inexperienced partner, but he learns to live with him.

Things start to get complicated when Daniel is approached by a Triad king pin and offers him in on the same deal that Chen’s on, you get us information, we’ll give you information. But as this story unravels nothing is what it seems. (continue reading…)

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Bullets Over Summer (1999)

by Stoo on Jan.12, 2009, under Reviews

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Plot: When a group gangsters shoot down three innocent people and four police officers, cops Mike (Francis Ng) and Brian (Louis Koo) are giving the case. They occupy an apartment facing across from the gangsters hide out. There is only one problem the tenet of the apartment is an old women whose lost her marbles. She mistakes they two cops as her grandchildren and they play along so they can watch over the gangsters.

They cops soon develop a genuine relationship with the old cook and the two men also develop loving relationships with some young women as well. Mike falls for a young pregnant woman working in a dry cleaner. Brian falls for Stone’s (their informant) god daughter.

Thing take a turn for the worst when the ruthless gang of four return… (continue reading…)

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Attack the Gas Station (1999)

by Stoo on Jan.12, 2009, under Reviews

AttackTheGasStation

A gang of four trouble makers decide to rob a all night gas station. The 4 go in, steal the money, trash the station and leave. Exactly one night later decide to rob the same station again for the fun of it. This time they don’t find much money, so after rounding up the three teenage workers and their middle-aged manager, they decide to keep the gas station running for the night and make some more money. (continue reading…)

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The Legend of Speed (1999)

by Stoo on Jan.03, 2009, under Reviews

LegendOfSpeed

Plot: Sky (Ekin Cheng) is a millionaire street racer, his two loves are his cars and his longtime girlfriend Kelly (Kelly Lam). Although Sky comes against a older racer, Tang Fung (Simon Yam) who is ready to teach Sky a lesson, he’ll never forget.

Tang Fung is responsible for defeating Sky’s father, Dark Tone (Blacky Ko) in a race. After his defeat, Dark disappeared, many people said he got into too much debt and then died. So Tang and Sky race, but when Sky takes the lead, Tang deliberately runs Sky’s car of the road. Sky’s car capsizes throws Sky out but it crashed Kelly, to whom was in the passenger seat.

When the emergency services arrive Sky is arrested when they find over 300 Milligrams of Heroin in the boot of Skys Car. Sky has never touched any hard drugs in his live so how come he ends up with 300 MG of Class A Drug, something didn’t make sense. With all these troubles appearing in Sky’s life, his uncle tells him that his father is actually alive and living in Bangkok.

With his sprit and his life shattered Sky sneaks away to Thailand in search of his long lost father… (continue reading…)

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