Ip Man - The Fists of Fury, A Heart of Gold, and a House of Dirt

 

Directed by Wilson Yip

Written by 

Edmond Wong

Chan Tai-lee

Produced by Raymond Wong

Starring    

Donnie Yen

Simon Yam

Lynn Hung

Gordon Lam

Fan Siu-wong

Xing Yu

Chen Zhihui

Hiroyuki Ikeuchi

Tenma Shibuya

Release date: 18 December, 2008

January 2009 (Australia)

 

Synopsis 

In 1930s China, a martial artist loses his home after the Imperial Japanese Army invades the country. With little means to survive, he must find a way to sustain his family.

 Review

Ip Man is a very serious film about horrible crimes the Japanese commited in the time of WW2. Yeah, sure none of it impacts me mentally, but it's still bad.

Anyways, Ip Man's action scenes might not have any life-threatening over the top stunts, but the film does not dissapoint.

It shows a (kinda) accurate description of the life of Ip Man while mixing it with carefully and perfectly choreographed action scenes for this type of film.

 The film makes the biography genre amazing to watch, with amazing writing and great acting. This was the film that introduced me to Donnie Yen and the only reason why Jackie Chan isn't the only action star I watch a lot. His films don't dissapoint to and this is an example of it.

Ip Man is a great film, that might be boring at some times with a dull background score, but the film's contents in itself are amazing.

Yeah, Bruce Lee's amazing.. but do you ever think about who taught him? 
This is the film about his life.

Watch Ip Man at the

https://archive.org/details/ip.-man.-2008.lati (Latin version)

https://archive.org/details/ipman_1 (Tagalog version)

https://archive.org/details/sdlehongkong1-15  (Along with other Hong Kong action movies)

https://archive.org/details/l62h9k62 (Along with other Hong Kong action movies)

https://archive.org/details/film-list (Along with other movies that some random dude on IA likes named "Sam")

https://archive.org/details/sdhongkon41-50 (Along with other Hong Kong movies)

Rating: 7/10

 

Die Hard 4.0 has so much action your popcorn will burn!

 Directed by Len Wiseman

Screenplay and story by Mark Bomback

Story by David Marconi

Based on "A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin

   Produced by Michael Fottrell

Starring 

Bruce Willis

    Justin Long

    Timothy Olyphant

    Mary Elizabeth Winstead

    Cliff Curtis

    Maggie Q

Release date: June 22, 2007

Release date: August 10, 2007 (Australia) 

Synopsis

 As the nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, veteran cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) carries out another routine assignment: bringing in a computer hacker (Justin Long) for questioning. Meanwhile, a tech-savvy villain named Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) launches an attack on America's computer infrastructure. As chaos descends around him, McClane must use old-fashioned methods to fight the high-tech threat.

 

Review

Die Hard 4.0 was produced from 2005-2006, where special effects started to get very advanced, so that's why this movie is loaded with them. Unlike most of my favourite action films (Police Story, Project A, Super Cop), almost half the movie is CGI and VFX and it still manages to be likeable.

The movie is bombarded with funny dialogue between Matt and McClane, which portrayers both have amazing chemistry together.

While the movie is PG-13, you might expect that to impact some of the action, but the only thing it DID impact was the profanity. 

Many f-bombs and s-words were cut out but put back in for the Unrated Version.

 In Australia, Die Hard 4.0 was released with the PG-13 cut with an M rating, the same as the others in the series (The Australian Classification Board is less strict with regards to language and to a lesser extent, violence). The unrated version was later released on DVD and Blu-ray also with an M rating. The film, notably never released in home media with its theatrical cut, has only been released in Australia as the extended edition. 

But despite what version I watched the film in, it was still good and not a disappointment. The fight scenes are still up to the same standard [and a bit better] then in the first three movies. 

The quality in this movie has seem to gone up. Old Habits of making a mediocre film Died Hard.

And lastly, the important question - Live free or Die Hard?

Die hard.

Watch Live Free or Die Hard on

https://tubitv.com/movies/622893/live-free-or-die-hard

Watch Die Hard 4.0 at the 

https://archive.org/details/live.-free.or.-die.-hard.-2007.-h-265.1080p.-dvdrip.-ezz-rips (DVD rip)

Rating: 8/10