Very exciting, high octane actioner with a fair dose of blood and guts. But somewhat of a disjointed mess with scenes following each other seemingly at random. For example, the angels sitt at a table in a nightclub, cuts to one of the angles inline for the bathroom as a random guy comes out, cuts to a male angel working out in a gym, cuts to a random police officer walking down a corridor in a police station... as the action intensifies the continuity does improve somewhat and boy does it turn the dial to eleven towards the end. Moon and Yukari shines throughout with the final fight being one of the most epic battles of Hong Kong cinema.
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Santa Claus
(1985)
Anti-capitalist screed brought to you by Macdonalds and Coca-Cola
26 December 2023
Christmas origin story with a great performance by David Huddleston as Santa as its sole redeeming quality. Dudley Moore as the elf "Patch" naively goes to the big city and convinces toy tycoon B. Z, ridiculously overplayed by John Lithgow, to let him manufacture toys for him. Which leads to B. Z trying to commercialize and "take over" Christmas. All brought to you by Macdonalds and Coca-Cola. The tacky stupidity of this movie is only matched by the hypocrisy and complete lack of self awareness in this box office bomb. Badly directed by Jeannot Szwarc of Supergirl and Jaws 2 fame. Luckily Hollywood is working hard as off late to surpass this as the worst Christmas movie ever.
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