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Freedom Strikes a Blow hong kong drama review
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Freedom Strikes a Blow
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by The Butterfly
aug 27, 2021
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Geheel 5.5
Verhaal 6.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Muziek 1.0
Rewatch Waarde 1.0

First we kill them, then we dump them!

If Bolo hadn't been in this movie, I would have seriously considered dumping it.

What I liked:
•Refreshingly this movie was set near the ocean where workers loaded and unloaded cargo for boats at the pier.
•Did I mention Bolo was in this movie? He's a favorite of mine and it was fun to watch him fight and snarl at people.
•Fong Yau gave a charismatic performance as a sadistic syndicate man, far out charming any of the good guys.
•Bolo and Huang Chung Hsin, and also Huang Chung Hsin and Leung Tin had brutal fights. Finally fighters went after the parts of the body that will stop a person---the arms and knees.
•I liked that they tried to show the emotional aftermath of a person who thought he had killed someone with his bare hands.

What I didn't care for:

•Michael Chan's performance was weak for me. I thought he came across as whiney instead of conflicted. After thinking he'd killed his girlfriend's brother he ran away and vowed never to fight again. Of course, he ended up in a place where people's lives were in danger because of a tyrannical boss and cowered in the back or was beaten senseless.
•I didn't like Michael Chan's windmill style of fighting very well.
•His girlfriend gave him what had to be the worst pep talk in the entire history of cinema when he was hiding out after some of his buddies and his girl had fought, been wounded, or died in a big battle with Bolo.
• The music was loud and dreadful, as were the fighting sound effects.
• With the exception of the fights involving Huang Chung Hsin I didn't think any of the fights were particularly inspired.

If you are a Bolo fan, it's worth sitting through this movie to watch him, he was in fine form.

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