‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’ Delivers Flawless Action but Lacks Emotional Nuance

Set in a fictionalized version of the now-demolished Kowloon Walled City — based on the novel City of Darkness by Yuyi and the manhua of the same name by Andy Seto — Soi Cheang‘s Twilight of the Warriors‘s gritty and hard-hitting actioner delivers what we’ve come to expect from Hong Kong cinema.

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The NOC Review: Donnie Yen’s Back in Kung Fu Killer

As a rabid martial arts film nerd, I’m not easily impressed. It’s one of those things where if you’ve seen one film, you’ve seen them all. So a movie has to really step outside of the box to garner my attention.

The premise of Donnie Yen’s latest action flick, Kung Fu Killer directed by Teddy Chen, did exactly that in grand fashion.

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