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Chinatown Connection

  • 1990
IMDb RATING
4.8/10
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Chinatown Connection (1990)
ActionComedyCrimeDramaThriller

Two police officers lead a team to stop poison laced narcotics from getting on the streets.Two police officers lead a team to stop poison laced narcotics from getting on the streets.Two police officers lead a team to stop poison laced narcotics from getting on the streets.

  • Director
    • Jean-Paul Ouellette
  • Stars
    • Yung Henry Yu
    • Lee Majors II
    • Pat McCormick
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.8/10
    78
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jean-Paul Ouellette
    • Stars
      • Yung Henry Yu
      • Lee Majors II
      • Pat McCormick
    • 6User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Yung Henry Yu
    Yung Henry Yu
    • Chan
    • (as Bruce Ly)
    Lee Majors II
    • Houston
    Pat McCormick
    • Flynn
    Fitz Houston
    • Tony
    Art Camacho
    Art Camacho
    • Estes
    William Ghent
    • Hong
    Susan Frailey
    • Dawson
    Robert Chen Deer
    • Sheung
    • (as Robert Chen Deere)
    Brinke Stevens
    Brinke Stevens
    • Missy
    Paul Gunning
    Paul Gunning
    • Mike
    Tanya Louise
    • Wendy
    Greg Chabolla
    • Officer at Church
    Rafael H. Robledo
    • Gang Leader
    Erik Nielsen
    • Smiley
    Roger Gutierrez
    Roger Gutierrez
    • Gang Member #2
    Ron Althoff
    • Scarfaced Man
    Alan Walls
    • Lobby Guard…
    Leo Lee
    Leo Lee
    • Hong's Guard
    • Director
      • Jean-Paul Ouellette
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    3hassan_ghezelayagh

    Not Attrackable movie and characters

    It worth to watch any movie it is my word. This movie can be watched once but it does not have enough attraction to watch it twice. I liked some parts but they are not great parts. Two cops with different attitude of fighting crime they are not suitable for this cast and , I may never see them in other movie. I do not like this movie and bad guys are not showing their cast good.It says I should write 10 lines then I write in this way: It worth to watch this movie then you will enjoy more from Real Old Brouce Lee movie. Lee Major II and Brouce Lye are not suitable for their characters Chief Detective look like head accounting department no wisdom on crime Bad guy look colored black that never match with Chinese drug rings
    6immendorfu

    ??????????????

    Well, I ll start to say that this is a different film. It did have a number of reconizable faces throughout and some good fight scenes. By Good, I mean the all with Art Camacho and his 2 buddies. There is only good Bruce Ly fight scene, but I thought he made up for it by his obvious Bruce Lee impersonation and he did incorporate some philo of Bruce Lee's as well. In the end the film is worth seeing.
    Crap_Connoisseur

    Better Than Expected

    Chinatown Connection is a decent, if unspectacular, action/martial arts movie. I was expecting something a whole lot worse given the stars - a virtual Bruce Lee impersonator, Bruce Ly, and Lee Majors Jr. They are both surprisingly adequate, although Bruce Ly's dubbing varies in quality. There are a couple of treats in the supporting cast for genre fans, namely Art Camacho and indie scream queen, Brinke Stevens. Actually, given the novelty value of the cast and the reasonable production values, it's rather surprising that this film is so obscure.

    The plot concentrates around John (Bruce Ly), a policeman who reforms violent police officers by teaching them martial arts, and a trigger happy cop, Houston, played by Majors. Predictably enough, the two are paired together and they set out to find the person responsible for selling cyanide laced cocaine. The film's plot is pretty thin but it does provide sufficient opportunities for some decent martial arts action and gun fights. A shoot-out in a church and the finale stand up as well made action sequences.

    IMDb has the film listed as being released in 1990 but it feels a lot older than that. The fashion, music and mountains of cocaine all seem very 80s to me and I wouldn't be surprised if this was made considerably earlier. Chinatown Connection is pretty standard 80s/early 90s martial arts fare. Genre fans will enjoy it, as will fans of Brinke Stevens and Art Camacho.
    9Weirdling_Wolf

    'The Kung Fu Squad rules, dude!'

    When a terminal batch of poison-laced drugs hits the streets like a deadly white hurricane, it will take just two of the hardest hitting street savvy cops to fight back, and Chan (Bruce ly) and no less bellicose partner, Houston (Lee Majors II) are generously over-endowed with more than enough Gunhappy chutzpah and righteously steel thewed Kung Fu fury to take on the murderous criminal cartels than have so little regard for human life!

    After a wicked sleazy photographer toots his terminal toot we observe Lee 'I'll backdoor this scum' Majors II unflinchingly take down heavily armed Chicano gang bangers with extreme prejudice, coldly culling them like some skell excising, stonewashed jean-clad surgeon! With cerebral, Chan and hot-headed Houston bustin' heads and kickin' down doors, this Zen, martial arts cop and his retrograde, pistol packin' partner soon discover that the source of all this toxic gear is strongly linked to Hong (William Ghent) evil, Machiavellian kingpin of Chinatown and one of the major importers of drugs.

    Infrequently recalled these days 'Chinatown Connection' is a rumbustious mismatched cop actioner that is ably festooned with plentifully roustabout scenes of gung ho action, amusingly generic chitchat, no less prototypical, bullet-ready thugs, and while it occasionally lags it's certainly not without some exhilaratingly thick eared fight-flick charm! Lee Majors II is a handsome, round housing pug, and his partner, master pugilist, Bruce Ly gets the girl, Missy, none other than super B-Movie princess Brinke Stevens! Ouellette's 'Chinatown Connection' excitingly concludes with a resolutely grand chop-sockingly crazy finale betwixt sensei, Chan and mean alpha dog thug Tony (Fitz Houston), with additional B-Movie bonus points earned for arbitrary usage of a home-invading Ninja! Right on!!!!

    You could superglue, Arnie, Stallone and, Statham together and this pair of ill-matched righteously enraged, justice-seeking, dope-dealer destroying, hellaciously hardcore cops would power through those old Hollywood lags like overripe cheese! Capable filmmaker, Jean-Paul Ouellette has produced a solid low budget action-fest that deserves more love, with additional B-Movie bonus points earned for arbitrary usage of a home-invading Ninja! Right on!!!!!!! And heroically handsome moustache-wearing Majors II is one honey sweet slice of sugary man-cake, and I can imagine there are a goodly many ladies and no less goodly gentlemen who would like to see more of him, if ya' know what I mean?????? AROOOOOOOO!!!!!!

    'The Kung Fu Squad rules, dude!'

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    • Release date
      • July 19, 1990 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Todesspur Chinatown
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
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