SPL: Kill Zone

this was a bit of a let down. i love a film with donnie yen in it but this was just a bit slow for me. admittedly, that fight scene in an alley was epic. fantastic choreography etc. but it didn't make up for the rest of the film being a bit... meh. read more

"a must see" it says on the dvd. eh, not really? i'm giving it some stars because the donnie v sammo fights are worth seeing and it has a trademark downbeat hk ending. i also fully admit i'd probably be more lenient if this had come out at least 10 years earlier, but i feel like that's just because it would've cared less about grounding it. look, i loooove me some melodrama but unless you're as adept as john woo in taking it to comical levels, i'd prefer you didn't. more smashy smashy plz. read more

a movie that looks this ridiculously flashy should not try and be ridiculously melodramatic too. it's unbecoming. what am i going to remember about kill zone five years from now? donnie yen's outfit, and how absurd the ending was. i've got nothing but love for asian cinema, but their heroic bloodshed movies kind of annoy me. not once do they ever try and break the mold, and surprise the audience by having an upbeat ending. not only does it have to be sad, it always has to be the saddest. i mean, i guess that's like asking water to not be wet, or popcorn to not be crunchy, but it's also not a... read more