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City Warriors (1988)
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City Warriors Director: Billy Chung Year: 1988 Rating: 7.0 This is a punch in the face. Brutal, rancid, sleazy, nasty and action packed. This is why I love many B Hong Kong action films. They don't believe in rationing the violence or tempering it - it is all hands on deck. Why have ten guys blasting away when you can have twenty? Why have five stunt men taking rough tumbles when you can have ten? They come cheap. Just beat the crap out of them and hope they can make it back the next day. Johnny Wang who was a legendary villain for the Shaw Brothers for years throws it all in this one as director - rape, prostitution, cocaine in the vagina, giant shootouts, kung-fu in spades, a Psycho shower scene, a pole stuck through someone to which he licks his blood pouring out and exclaims "delicious" and hundreds of worms in a plastic see-through bag held over someone's head as you can see them wriggling around inside. When they showed this in Hong Kong I hope it was in the seediest of theaters with the sound of rats scurrying around. That is where it belongs. No big stars (at the time) in it but a lot of familiar faces and two of the best martial artists in the business. They were rarely he…
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City Warriors