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Today's film, a bruiser.

Relentlessly violent and continually boring.

City on Fire (1987)

Smoke and mirrors.

A Hong Kong thriller that was highly touted somewhere and I took the bait.

The reality is that this gore fest of criminals and double crossers, a cop picture of all things, is a piece of shit.

Sorry.

I had to FF a lot to get through the bad dubbing and very leaky plot.

I don't even want to get into the detail of it.

Suffice to say that I quit while I was behind. I just could not take any more.

Oh. This is said to be the film that one of Tarantino's films took off from.

I missed that small print.

Gratuitous violence only begins to describe the carnage.

But nothing, nothing, covers up the fact that for some reason English speaking actors were still dubbed by clearly anglo voice overs. It doubles the pain.

A very rare 1 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films