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Hell Has No Boundary (1982) dir. Yang Chuan

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hell has no boundary, 1982

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Hell Has No Boundary (1982) dir. Yang Chuan

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Hell Has No Boundary (1982) dir. Yang Chuan

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Watched Today: Hell Has No Boundary (1982)

A ★★★½ review of Hell Has No Boundary (1982)

Hell Has No Boundary is a memorable bit of CAT III madness. The story takes the basic premise of a cop possessed by a demon and goes in some

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Movie Review | The Image of Bruce Lee (Yang, 1978)

Of the Bruceploitation stars, Bruce Li is probably the best actor, but his relative seriousness and respect for the real Bruce Lee's legacy mean that his movies often lacked the more eccentric charms of the genre. (There are exceptions. Bruce Lee in New Guinea features a romance between him and the princess of a snake worship tribe, who happens to have a martial artist gorilla.) You can see him ground the raw cynicism of The Chinese Stuntman and Soul Brothers of Kung Fu (the former of which he also directed), but those movies were good enough in a genuine sense to support his work. But in a movie like Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death, you can see him struggle to breathe life into the rote material or make a case for why it might be preferable to watch him in this than to revisit one of the real Lee's movies.

It's a problem that also affects The Image of Bruce Lee AKA Storming Attacks. This one saddles him with a really generic crime plot, something to do with counterfeit money and diamonds and... I confess I watched this when I was pretty tired so I missed some of the details. It's probably my fault but I'm going to blame the movie, as I don't think delivered this material with much enthusiasm. There are the requisite fight scenes, and they're filmed well enough by the standards of the genre, but while Li is a talented martial artist, most of the action feels a bit too pedestrian, too perfunctory to make an impact. Only the climax, with its distinct stop-start rhythm, makes much of an impact. This final fight scene is doubly enjoyable because the lead actress Dana wears a cute sweater (featuring a dog with sunglasses) and kicks one of the bad guys in the balls. She follows this with a scene where she's pestered about her love life, makes a wife beating joke and gets a very awkward freeze frame to end the movie. Ten good minutes isn't enough to save a movie, but it's a start.

At this point I should mention that I went through three different YouTube uploads of the movie before I found a version with nudity. And maybe my sense of perspective has been destroyed by my interest in a certain genre, but there isn't even that much. I apologize if I sound like a degenerate here, but when the movie is doing this little for you on the whole, you take what you can get. As it says in the bible, "Judge not that ye not be judged."

I also must make reference to the production company credited on of the copies, "Goldig Films (H.K.) Ltd.". The logo and name bear a suspicious resemblance to Golden Harvest, while the accompanying fanfare sounds a lot like the music for Shaw Brothers. The logo suggests you'll get the best of both worlds, but the movie does not deliver.

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Hell Has No Boundary (1982). Hong Kong poster.