Taxi Hunter (1993): I thought I had seen all of the prime Anthony Wong CAT III flicks but this one fell below my radar. I thought I had seen it but like someone on here said, these movies start to bleed together after a while. In this flick, Anthony Wong plays a loving husband in a world filled with corrupt taxi drivers. His pregnant wife is killed by said drivers and he goes out for revenge. Wong is up to his usual talents and plays a likable character which is kind of rare in his career. The film has some very good gun-fu going on in the first 10 minutes but it's your usual CAT III sleaze-fest with the tropes you expect: comic relief side characters, sassy ladies, prostitutes, Anthony Wong going insane, police officers who aren't much better than the one's in Last House on the Left, an oddly cruel world where every-day people are incredibly rude and are prone to violence.
I thought this was pretty good. Doesn't quite reach the highs of Untold Story or Ebola Syndrome or Underground Banker. But doesn't have the creepiness of the underrated 3 Days of a Blind Girl (which is I think a CAT II flick).
This is one of those CAT III movies where you wonder if the shit being depicted in this flick is a real problem over in HK/China or is it just exaggerated.
I know I kind of skipped out on this thread in the last week. I've been so tired after coming back from work I just don't have the energy to watch a good flick and most of my stock pile are made up of flicks that require that mental energy.
I thought this was pretty good. Doesn't quite reach the highs of Untold Story or Ebola Syndrome or Underground Banker. But doesn't have the creepiness of the underrated 3 Days of a Blind Girl (which is I think a CAT II flick).
This is one of those CAT III movies where you wonder if the shit being depicted in this flick is a real problem over in HK/China or is it just exaggerated.
I know I kind of skipped out on this thread in the last week. I've been so tired after coming back from work I just don't have the energy to watch a good flick and most of my stock pile are made up of flicks that require that mental energy.
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