I want 90 minutes of my life back
I saw Catman in Lethal Track, and Catman in Boxer's Blow. After seeing the first one, I was baffled about how a second could be released. Alas, here it is, and what a painful, mind-numbing, and hilarious experience it was.
First off, this movie has nothing to do with Catman whatsoever. Catman is in the movie for less than 15 minutes. My guess is that he's in the movie only to appeal to an American audience. The rest of the movie is the "subplot", a mess of people beating the crap out of each other amidst a plot that I couldn't figure out at all. There's no character development. I had to ask myself how the box could be so misleading. If you get a chance to look at the cover art, you'll notice that the people featured are white. The actual Taiwanese main characters are not featured at all. Pity, really, that they have to cover up this fact.
About ten minutes into the movie, my friend and I had noticed there were quite a few fight scenes, so we started a counter. The total number of fights in the movie came down to 21. That meant that on average, someone was shot, jumped, beaten up, or engaged in some sort of useless brawl every four minutes. Not bad if you want to see action. But each action scene is totally useless. At least in this movie they dug deep into their pockets and managed to give us some explosions in the finale. Sheesh. Oh, and the ending, like the last movie, not only has nothing to do with the rest of the movie, but is the greatest and most hilarious part.
If you get a chance to see Catman, go ahead and see it. But after the first ten minutes, you might as well skip to the end, because there's nothing new at all.
First off, this movie has nothing to do with Catman whatsoever. Catman is in the movie for less than 15 minutes. My guess is that he's in the movie only to appeal to an American audience. The rest of the movie is the "subplot", a mess of people beating the crap out of each other amidst a plot that I couldn't figure out at all. There's no character development. I had to ask myself how the box could be so misleading. If you get a chance to look at the cover art, you'll notice that the people featured are white. The actual Taiwanese main characters are not featured at all. Pity, really, that they have to cover up this fact.
About ten minutes into the movie, my friend and I had noticed there were quite a few fight scenes, so we started a counter. The total number of fights in the movie came down to 21. That meant that on average, someone was shot, jumped, beaten up, or engaged in some sort of useless brawl every four minutes. Not bad if you want to see action. But each action scene is totally useless. At least in this movie they dug deep into their pockets and managed to give us some explosions in the finale. Sheesh. Oh, and the ending, like the last movie, not only has nothing to do with the rest of the movie, but is the greatest and most hilarious part.
If you get a chance to see Catman, go ahead and see it. But after the first ten minutes, you might as well skip to the end, because there's nothing new at all.
- producedpt
- May 30, 2004