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Crank

Pure genius. Filmed brilliantly, perfect music track, ticks all the right boxes. Statham was perfect for this role. Every time I watch this I enjoy this more. It has become my favourate film of all time.

Crank (2006)
Starring: Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam, Efren Ramirez
Director: Mark Neveldine
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Action thriller starring Jason Statham as ace hitman Chev Chelios, who learns that he has been injected with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops below a certain point. Racing against time and against his own body, Chev must keep up the pressure as he tracks down the men responsible ..read more »
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Infernal Affairs

A superb story. Gripping.

Infernal Affairs on DVD (2002)
Starring: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong
Director: Siu Fai Mak, Andrew Lau
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A cop goes undercover as a gangster while, simultaneously, a gangster infiltrates the police force, pretending to be a cop. These two sleeper agents live underground for a decade before a series of mistakes clues in all the wrong people as to what's going on and each mole is ordered to root out the ..read more »
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Braindead

The best crap movie ever made. A total GOREFEST from the man that brought you 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'King Kong'

Braindead on DVD (1992)
Starring: Elizabeth Moody, Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver
Director: Peter Jackson
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Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (..read more »
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Warrior King

Quite possibly THE greatest martial arts film ever made.

Warrior King on DVD (2006)
Starring: Petchtai Wongkamlao, Nathan Jones, Bongkoj Khongmalai
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
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Kham's life is turned upside down when an international mafia syndicate, based in Australia, captures his two beloved elephants and smuggles them thousands of kilometers away to Sydney. The two elephants are far more than mere animals to Kham and his father; they are part of his family and were ..read more »
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Flash Point

Donnie Yen = HARD AS NAILS

Flash Point (2007)
Starring: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou
Director: Wilson Yip, Yip Wai Shun
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Action thriller about a loose-cannon cop on the trail of three drug-dealing brothers. For years, Detective Sergeant Ma Jun (Donnie Yen) has been working on a case involving three Vietnamese brothers - Archer (Lui Leung-Wai), Tony (Collin Chou) and Tiger (Xing Yu). Ma has planted a mole, his partner ..read more »
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Brilliant story, brilliant cast, amusing and witty.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on DVD (2005)
Starring: Corbin Bernsen, Val Kilmer, Mary Castro
Director: Shane Black
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Comedy starring Robert Downey Jr. Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr.) is basically a decent guy. Sure, he's a petty thief who skates through life on a shaky cocktail of dog-eared charm and cockeyed optimism, but he wants to do the right thing. He just doesn't know how, exactly. Harry's perpetual bad luck ..read more »
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Battle Royale

What 'I'm a celebrity...' should be like.

Battle Royale on DVD (2000)
Starring: Takayo Mimura, Aki Inoue, Aki Maeda
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have ..read more »
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OldBoy

Brilliant and bizarre movie. Features the best 'non flashy martial arts' fight scene in any film you will ever see. - The corridor fight scene, you know what I'm talking about.

OldBoy on DVD (2003)
Starring: Kang Hye-jeong
Director: Park Chan-Wook, Chan-wook Park
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Dark, vibrant and twisted revenge thriller by Korean director Chan-Wook Park. Oh Dae-Su (Choi Min-Sik) has never taken his role as husband and father seriously and has just been released from police custody for drunk and disorderly behaviour on his own baby daughter's birthday. When he finds ..read more »
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Unleashed

Danny The Dog - by far Jet Li's best western movie.

Unleashed (2004)
Starring: Vincent Regan, Morgan Freeman, Jet Li
Director: Louis Leterrier
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Off-beat martial arts thriller. Danny (Jet Li) is a slave who has been raised like a dog by the sinister Bart (Bob Hoskins), who keeps him chained up and only unleashes him to use his martial arts skills in illegal underground pit fights. When Bart is injured in an accident, Danny is able to escape ..read more »
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District 13

Some excellent stunts, best chase scene by far.

District 13 on DVD (2006)
Starring: Tony D'Amario, David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli
Director: Pierre Morel
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Futuristic French action, produced by Luc Besson. In the year 2010, the violent ghettoes of Paris have been walled off from the main city, the worst of these being District 13. When gang warfare breaks out in the district, the authorities learn of a plot by gang leader Taha (Bibi Naceri) to ..read more »
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