Member blue_skies Posted July 16, 2009 Member Share Posted July 16, 2009 Has anybody seen these two Japanese short martial-arts/ action films? If so were they any good? is it possible to get them with English subtitles and where from? Cheers for any help in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WuxiaFan Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Has anybody seen these two Japanese short martial-arts/ action films? If so were they any good? is it possible to get them with English subtitles and where from? Cheers for any help in advance. Yes, I ordered HARD REVENGE MILLY from HKFlix.com. I was very disappointed! I didn't like it all. It was EXTREMELY gorey and bloody, and I can take a lot of gore and blood in the right context. But HRM was just stupid and over the top. The villians were extremely evil, to the point of killing a baby. That was just too much for me as a father. There are also supernatural effects in the lead female when she finally exacted her revenge, but again it was just stupid and didn't make any sense to me. The version I bought (and subsequently sold to a local retailer) had Japanese audio with English subs. It was R0 NTSC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member blue_skies Posted July 16, 2009 Author Member Share Posted July 16, 2009 cheers for your thoughts Wuxia. I'm now torn because it sounded good here... http://www.nipponcinema.com/db/review/hard_revenge_milly/ :l how were the fights themself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WuxiaFan Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 cheers for your thoughts Wuxia. I'm now torn because it sounded good here... http://www.nipponcinema.com/db/review/hard_revenge_milly/ :l how were the fights themself? I've seen much better. The lead female got her ass kicked much of the time, but then seemed to come back for the kill. So IMO, not that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HAZ Posted July 21, 2009 Member Share Posted July 21, 2009 This movie is done in the same vein as Tokyo Gore Police. There is also a part II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member blue_skies Posted March 4, 2010 Author Member Share Posted March 4, 2010 Both parts of Hard Revenge Milly is supposed to be released on 5th April on UK label cine Asia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member daisho2004 Posted March 5, 2010 Member Share Posted March 5, 2010 Ha, I was going to ask about these 2 movies Hard Revenge Millie #1&2! I still want to check them out hopefully NetFlix will have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted March 5, 2010 Moderator Share Posted March 5, 2010 The villians were extremely evil, to the point of killing a baby. That was just too much for me as a father. There are also supernatural effects in the lead female when she finally exacted her revenge, but again it was just stupid and didn't make any sense to me I couldn't agree more. Daisho2004 & blue_skies you are better off saving your money. I'll be honest and say I've only seen the first, and yes Mark Pollard is more positive about the sequel in his review, but it's really nothing special. As WuxiaFan mentions, there is a scene were a baby is set on fire, thrown around, before being thrown into a wall while still on fire. I'm not a father myself, but I still felt the scene went to far and didn't offer any entertainment value whatsoever. Originally I turned it off after that scene, but since then I've watched the rest of it...and I could have lived very happily having never seen it, the final revenge scene is indeed very stupid. It's almost like they ran out of money for fake blood so simply decided to finish it with some terrible and cheap looking CGI...crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GazzO Posted March 5, 2010 Member Share Posted March 5, 2010 Blue-Skies you're right, Cine-Asia are releasing a DVD with both films on in the U.K. I'll have a review of the dvd coming asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member blue_skies Posted March 7, 2010 Author Member Share Posted March 7, 2010 Blue-Skies you're right, Cine-Asia are releasing a DVD with both films on in the U.K. I'll have a review of the dvd coming asap. I'll be very interested to hear what you're opinion of the film is given the comments above. I thought this film might be for me now I'm not so sure. Out of curiosity Gaz, before you watch this film, what are your thoughts on Japanese cinema and these ultra-violent movies? Are they your sort of thing normally, or like myself don't mind some blood and gore but some films take it too far? What comes to mind for me is Hostel. That crossed the line for me and until then I didn't realise I had a line to cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member GazzO Posted March 12, 2010 Member Share Posted March 12, 2010 The review is up now. Blue_Skies - I used to like them a lot, one of the first I watched being Versus. Unfortunately I grew tired of them around the time of Ichi the Killer (which I really didn't like). Of the newer batch of entries, I thought Tokyo Gore Police was the best (but of course I haven't seen much of them, as I steer quite clear of them now). It's not necessarily the gore that puts me off (I love horror movies), it's just that they're REALLY silly, and they're all pretty much the same now anyway - watch one, and you've seen them all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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