IN THE LINE OF DUTY FRANCHISE 4/8
ACTION SCENES: 17 (!!!)
TOTAL ACTION TIME: 44.5/95 min. (46.8/100)
CHOREOGRAPHY: 10/10
STUNTS: 10/10
EDITING: 9/10
FINALE: 10/10
MISCELLANEOUS MENTIONS: None
TOTAL ACTION JUNKIE SCORE: 102.8
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(In my best Cantonese accent:) A-whaaaaa!!! We have a new Number 2 for the Action Junkie Scorecard, currently topped only by John Woo's Hard Boiled.
In the Line of Duty IV is rightly known for being THE one to watch…
Does anyone know why the cops in this movie refer to prison as "school"? Is that an Italian thing? At first, I thought it was hysterical that the cops told Ricco to "keep yourself out of school," like they didn't want him learnin' things and getting uppity. But they meant prison, and the subtitles were quite consistent with calling this "school".
Anywho:
Robert Mitchum's son, Christopher Mitchum, stars as the eponymous RICCO - a silly, sleazy, shaft slicing, squib splattering…
IN THE LINE OF DUTY FRANCHISE 1/8
ACTION SCENES: 8
TOTAL ACTION TIME: 31/93 min. (33.3/100)
CHOREOGRAPHY: 9/10
STUNTS: 9/10
EDITING: 9/10
FINALE: 9/10
MISCELLANEOUS MENTIONS: None
TOTAL ACTION JUNKIE SCORE: 77.3
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Yes, yes, I know - this was released in the west as "In the Line of Duty 2". BUT...it's actually the first in the franchise. It's both Michelle Yeoh's and Cynthia Rothrock's leading lady debuts, and was shot and released in…
You're going to fall into one of two camps with this one: 1) You give a shit. 2) You don't.
A 70 minute film 13 years in the making by 1 single solo artsite, Christiane Cegavske, every second of Blood Tea and Red String is filled with mesmerizing handcrafted imagery. The opening live action sequence alone is worth the price of admission: where Christiane, wearing a painted mask molded from her own face, cuts a real cake and whole, giant…
