Reviews of Music, Movies, Anime & More

Brilliantly acted and paced hitman action movie that runs out of steam well before the credits.

Simply describing this film as a movie about a bunch of Shaolin monks playing soccer might be accurate enough, but it barely scratches the surface.

A wonderful, sensitive movie about the constraints of society on individualism and the requirements of compromise.

Yes, it’s silly and cheesy, but what else do you expect from a kung fu movie with the “duck” style?

This movie has so many ideas and doesn’t know what to do with them all.

At times brilliant and interesting, I often found it slow and just barely limping along.

When the film reaches its conclusion, it’s both a genuine shock and fitting resolution — and all the more tragic.

All in all, a so-called classic that misses out on all of the aspects that make a classic western.

One wonders if this is the greatest western ever made.

After watching the film, and thinking about it in more detail, I simply feel cheated.

A muddled, fairly uninvolving mess of a movie.

A very powerful movie that shows, in often brutal detail, the effects of war on the friendship of three young men.

I wouldn’t call this one a “must-see,” but if you have a chance to see it, and would like to see more of Jet Li, you certainly can’t go wrong.

Plenty of kung fu hijinks abound but Armour of God never makes up for all of the crap you have to sit through.

I’ve heard many people describe this as a serious, “adult” anime, but I don’t buy it.

As a visual expression, it’s quite captivating and beautiful to behold.

I often describe this film as disturbing, but not for the normal reasons.

Compared to much of the anime coming out today, it seems pallid and stale.

It successfully combines high-tech action sequences with some interesting, if not moving human interest stories.

I find it very easy to get caught up in Miyazaki’s films, mainly because his films often resemble how I remember seeing the world as a child.