Spend as little as possible!
Added 4/21/2009
If you're like me and just HAVE to see this movie because you liked the anime series, well, my advice to you is spend as LITTLE money as possible and buy this used.
Like many of the other reviews you'll see here, all I can do is tell you, the acting is terrible, special effects aren't and you'll be very glad its only 90 minutes.
Up side to this is if you watch this with a friend, they will hate you for it, but when they see the anime series they will be amazed how much more they like it than this movie.
Good luck, if you can make it to the end, be sure to write a review and post it here too.
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The most ham-fisted failure of an "epic" movie of the 1990s
Added 2/14/2009
This is one of the most painful movies I have ever had to endure. I have seen much worse as far as direction, acting, and special effects, but few action films are as boring, melodramatic, and cliched as Live Action Fist of the North Star. I have not seen the original anime series, so that does not account for my hatred of this film.
Do you like the original Fist of the North Star with its martial arts and exploding heads? This film has neither. Do you like fight scenes? There are very few of those. Do you like long, drawn out, pointless scenes that serve no purpose other than to pound into your head how despicable and evil the villains are? Then you'll LOVE this movie.
Seriously. Over half the movie consists of evil ugly bad guys terrorizing a village of innocent bystanders. The tape-headed gang leader, who gets more lines and screen time than any other character by far, fills his dialogue with every single evil sadistic bloodthirsty remark imaginable. However, he never actually kills anyone. The empty-headed hero does not stop him because he is too busy staring off into space, striking kung-fu poses, and mumbling about his "destiny". The small amounts of screen time the other characters get are as crammed as full of cliches as possible. The little girl must surround herself in "loss of childhood innocence" cliches at all times, and the evil leader, Lord Shin, talks about progress at any cost in a palace full of bloody inverted crosses and fake Soviet propaganda. Very subtle. The acting is some of the hammiest in recent memory, full of fake British accents and wrongly emphasized words(FIST AF THA NAWTH STAAAA!!)
This is worse than Battlefield Earth. Do not watch this, unless you want to spend 90 minutes watching a tape headed guy threatening an over-enthusiastic surfer dude and a girl who can't stop looking tearful while they are waiting for a guy with a vacant expression to stop running away from his destiny.
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Great Martial Arts Action
Added 11/30/2008
This is a great Martial Arts dvd! Gary Daniels really kicks major butt, along with the supporting cast. I also love the guest appearances.
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Not far from the animation
Added 9/26/2007
If you saw the animation Fist of the North Star then you would not be dissapointed with the Movie. Gary Daniels stars in this intresting twist of sci fi, martial arts movie with some unusual techniques. The movie mainly sticks to the script of the animaion thus making it easier to follow for those who first saw the animaiton. I wasnt disappointed at all!
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Massive Dose of Martial Arts Mayhem
Added 5/6/2007
One of the better live action versions of a Japanese Manga out there. I mean, how can you hate a movie where the antagonist and protagonist are Caucasians with Asian names, and the female love interest is Asian with a Caucasian name?
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Spend as little as possible!
Added 4/21/2009
If you're like me and just HAVE to see this movie because you liked the anime series, well, my advice to you is spend as LITTLE money as possible and buy this used.
Like many of the other reviews you'll see here, all I can do is tell you, the acting is terrible, special effects aren't and you'll be very glad its only 90 minutes.
Up side to this is if you watch this with a friend, they will hate you for it, but when they see the anime series they will be amazed how much more they like it than this movie.
Good luck, if you can make it to the end, be sure to write a review and post it here too.
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The most ham-fisted failure of an "epic" movie of the 1990s
Added 2/14/2009
This is one of the most painful movies I have ever had to endure. I have seen much worse as far as direction, acting, and special effects, but few action films are as boring, melodramatic, and cliched as Live Action Fist of the North Star. I have not seen the original anime series, so that does not account for my hatred of this film.
Do you like the original Fist of the North Star with its martial arts and exploding heads? This film has neither. Do you like fight scenes? There are very few of those. Do you like long, drawn out, pointless scenes that serve no purpose other than to pound into your head how despicable and evil the villains are? Then you'll LOVE this movie.
Seriously. Over half the movie consists of evil ugly bad guys terrorizing a village of innocent bystanders. The tape-headed gang leader, who gets more lines and screen time than any other character by far, fills his dialogue with every single evil sadistic bloodthirsty remark imaginable. However, he never actually kills anyone. The empty-headed hero does not stop him because he is too busy staring off into space, striking kung-fu poses, and mumbling about his "destiny". The small amounts of screen time the other characters get are as crammed as full of cliches as possible. The little girl must surround herself in "loss of childhood innocence" cliches at all times, and the evil leader, Lord Shin, talks about progress at any cost in a palace full of bloody inverted crosses and fake Soviet propaganda. Very subtle. The acting is some of the hammiest in recent memory, full of fake British accents and wrongly emphasized words(FIST AF THA NAWTH STAAAA!!)
This is worse than Battlefield Earth. Do not watch this, unless you want to spend 90 minutes watching a tape headed guy threatening an over-enthusiastic surfer dude and a girl who can't stop looking tearful while they are waiting for a guy with a vacant expression to stop running away from his destiny.
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Great Martial Arts Action
Added 11/30/2008
This is a great Martial Arts dvd! Gary Daniels really kicks major butt, along with the supporting cast. I also love the guest appearances.
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