Carl Tano

I saw this movie today at the Gothenburg International Film Festival and was almost bored to death. Half the audience (if not more) left the theater before the movie ended. I couldn't because I sat in the middle and was trapped. The movie is built around prolonged interviews where ppl tell their life stories spending too much time drowning us in boring details. The movie fails in the poor story-telling ability of the interviewees and Pierre Hodgsons inability to ask interesting and challenging questions to the subjects. The interviews last for too long and are often pointless. I was booooored. I didn't think it was possible to make such an uninteresting movie on the subject of race relations in the southern part of the US.

Who ever said a movie needs a story? In this day of computer effects, CGI and all that bullcrap which can be nice if used with a purpose and for the right things, but Hollywood has over used this method of creating unreal shots to spice up action scenes. Enter Kill Bill. I didn't notice any computer effects in this one. The impact the action scenes had on me (and believe me, they had quite an impact), came from the great choreography of Yuen Woo-Ping, the physical abilities of the stunt men and women involved and obviously from the incredible sense of style the great Quentin Tarantino possesses. I guess a lot of people will call this movie tasteless and dumb action and so forth. It's probably guilty as charged but you can't deny the artistic abilities of the director and the poetry in motion that this movie definately is. I gave it a 9 due to the lack of story but it's still the best movie of the year (Note: I haven't seen the return of the king yet). This American production has the same level of martial arts style and stays true to the genre like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero to make one of the best Kung Fu movies ever. I can't wait till Vol. 2.

When I saw this movie it went under the name Fearless Hyena III. Luckily it was shown on tv, so I didn't waste any money on this one. It's without a doubt the worst kung fu movie I have ever seen. It seems like they went through the phone book to find a guy with a similar name to Jackie Chan then they put him in this movie, the difference between Jackie Chan and Jackie Chen is that the real action hero has impeccable fighting skills while Jackie Chen can't perform a kick properly. Neither can anyone else in this production. Don't watch it, whatever you do! Learn from my mistake. I gave it a 1, and trust me it deserved it.