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"Red HAWK" is a movie based on the Korean comic book titled "Redhawk" published by Dai Won Publishing which is a pretty cool action movie. It has similarities to "Dragon Ball Z", "Fist of the Northstar" and "Ninja scroll".

If there is one thing that may confuse people, it looks like anime but it's from Korea and as more and more anime and manga-like productions are being created outside of Japan, can we call it anime?

That's a debate for another time. As for "Red Hawk", it features awesome fight scenes with a character with the hair and look of Super Saiyajin 3 of "Dragon Ball Z", the characters which remind me of "Fist of the Northstars" and the challenges of opponenents similar to "Ninja Scroll".

I really enjoy these type of animations but with "Red Hawk" coming out on DVD, I feel there are some misses. One thing I was hoping is that there would be the animation language track in Korean or Japanese but we only get a dubbed version. The dub is nowhere near the quality of Manga Entertainment's "Macross Plus" and the dub track is reminiscent of the old Streamline anime features. Personally, I wonder if the actual dialog has been changed. The other is not so bad but you can tell the movie's age with the scratches during the animation.

As for DVD special features, there is a photo gallery, character bio and the original trailer and typical Manga Entertainment trailers.

All in all, this anime is showing how other countries have adapted Japanese animation to their animations and "Red Hawk" is an enjoyable anime but I know I would of enjoyed this animation more if presented with it's original language and with English subtitles.

I bought this on VHS a few years ago thinking it would give me a sense of the groundbreaking BBC TV series on which "All in the Family" was loosely based. For that, I should have just bought episodes of "Till Death Us Do Part" (which are also available on DVD in America).

This is a cinema-release feature film based on the series, and was aimed at fans of the TV show who wanted to know more about its characters. Out of that context, it doesn't really hold up. It's okay, and a fascinating document of its era, but it's nothing to write home about.

Still, the brilliant Warren Mitchell is in fine form in his signature role as Alf Garnett, the hard-drinking, loudmouthed, bigoted working stiff. And Dandy Nichol is her wonderful self as his long-suffering "silly moo" of a wife, Else (even if I don't quite buy her as a twentysomething in the flashback). The problem is that a little Alf Garnett goes a long way. And in this flick, you get a lot of Alf.

Much of the film is a flashback to the 1940s, where we get to see the early years of Alf and Else's "romance" (if you can call it that). Then it jumps ahead to the 1960s as Alf's xenophobia gets a workout when Britain faces Germany for soccer's World Cup.

Whether you buy this film or opt for the TV show (I suggest the latter), bear in mind that the tone is much harsher than the later American series, and many U.S. viewers may find "Till Death Us Do Part" so shrill as to be unwatchable. The TV series is growing on me. This film isn't.

now to me the faces of death films are just class up to faces of death 3 then the fake stuff cums out. this one is the best of all of the faces of death cuz its all real the guys at then end geting shot is a good one.and the stunt car and the boxing clip are cool 2. i think the men and woman who slag the faces of death who havnt seen it just heard about it are wrong thay shud sit down with a lager and some crisps and watch the faces of death 1 and 2 and thay may get what its all about good stuff i give it 5 stars cool cool cooool.

At the core of morbidity is the desperate longing to control the uncontrollable, the fact that we all will die. Films like this give the watcher an empty illusion of being god-like observers of others' suffering and fate.

If you find watching animals and people suffer and die entertaining, I think you're weak, not strong or tough. Turn it off and look at the mortality of yourself and those around you and let death guide you in valuing life.

Life is not a movie. Life is not TV. Don't give in to your own desensitization. You will only be throwing away the only tender soul you've been given...

Those who talk about just the morbid aspects of this material are missing the point. This mixture of reenactment [strange how no one calls Unsolved Mysteries "fake"] and documentary footage must be seen as the beginning of a new type of film. The music is designed to sound like "world gone mad" with repetitive electronic loops that were NEW sounding when the first film came out. This is social satire by hosted by the fake "Dr. Francis B. Gross" [whose job is to "B. Gross"] done with such a straight face that rednecks won't realize that they're being played!

Let me be blunt: This movie is horrible. It's so horrible it takes away the meaning of the word 'Movie'. In fact, it's also taking away the meaning 'horrible' and 'this' and even some words that weren't even in the sentence. It's that bad.

As a responsible clerk of a local video store, I have taken it upon myself to view each and every anime title that we have for rent for the fans who frequent the store. M.D. Geist, however, was such an utter waste of time that I began to reconsider my well-intentioned policy.

Simply put, the main character of M.D. Geist (the M.D., by the way, stands for "Most Dangerous" ... how's that for cheesy?) is psychopathic, homicidal, insane, misogynistic, and worst of all, has a penchant for lines that would make Schwarzenegger look like a member of MENSA. (Classic Schwarzenegger at that.) Any characters who are remotely likable are killed off almost instantly (usually rather gruesomely as well). The animation quality isn't great even compared to 1980s standards, while the plot at best is razor-thin, with very little sense of logic (or actual coherent thought, for that matter).

The most remarkable thing about this title, apart from a few mildly interesting mecha (yawn) is the sheer amount of gratuitous violence. Body parts fly everywhere in M.D. Geist's path. (Honestly, I kept hoping that Geist himself would get axed, but alas, it was not to be.) And the ending is simply deplorable.

Simply put, M.D. Geist is bad AND ugly. Unless you watch anime for the express purpose of watching shameless amounts of gore and blood dashed across your screen, stay well away from M.D. Geist. You'll be glad you did.

Widely regarded as one of the worst anime ever made, and rightfully so.

.... and that right there is the only reason to ever watch it. I don't consider myself a huge anime fan, I enjoyed Akira and Cowboy Beebop, I gag whenever anyone mentions Dragonball Z. This movie, though, is a monstrosity. It starts out with about 12 minutes of text scrolling on the screen before any actual animation takes place. Even after the excrutiatingly long text bonanza, things rarely move, instead, characters kind of shake between two frames of animation, or the camera simply zooms or swipes over a crudely painted image. All of the blood and gore is crude, it's your usual anime head-exploding stuff, although there is a particularly interesting scene where a guy's eyeball pops out of his head and lands right back into his socket. If you can imagine this happening in four frames of animation, you should consider animating MD Geist III.

The first fight scene is quite possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen. I'll give you a run down (Just imagine 80's porno music in the background):

MD Geist- Okay, you want to fight. What are the rules?
Huge African American Stereotype- Only one rule (looking directly into the camera) TO KILLLL!!!!!

The fight scene that follows is possibly one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I won't ruin it for you, but just as a hint: expect dialogue from a man with his arms cut off and a knife jammed into the side of his head.
The dubbing is some of the worst I've ever heard, it sounds like a bunch of high school students nervously grumbling into a walkie-talkie. Scratch that, make that high school student, because I'm pretty sure the same person does the voice for everyone.
Oh yeah, there is pointless nudity scene, and seeing as how the animation looks like the old GI Joe show, this might satisfy some 12 year old who always dreamed of saturday morning cartoons in the buff.
Well, as for plot, just forget it. As for animation, I've seen better animation from my Grandma slowly handing me Christmas cards. And it's made in 1996!! Inexcusable!!!!!!! As for laughs, I definitely reccomend this movie. Just make sure that you DVD remote is equipped with a "Fast Forward" button for all of the long "dramatic" pauses.

Rent it.

This is one of the coolest animes i ever seen yeah M.D.Geist DEATH FORCE aint really good but the first kicks @ss in many ways.Whats not to like about this anime every thing rules about it what movie do you ever seee were the bad guy wins

Okay, I not going to say much, only that the first movie is bad. Really bad. But not as bad as the second one, which makes no sense at all. The plot is just stupid, the action lousy ...and all in all just plain bad. It even lacks the laughability-stupity factor that makes Fist of the North Star entertaining.

If your looking for action this is the movie to see, but If you are looking for anything resembling a plot line, likable characters you will be sorely disappointed. The action is great, but every character in the movie is insane, and villanous. Also on a side note, the movie is about killing everything in sight...no heroes, everyone is a villian, and If you want to see this movie, I suggest you borrow it from a friend. It's not worth the money. Action is great, but everything else is sorely disappointing.

No frills dual-language DVD with NO extras in its menus and a sloppy first chapter. Honestly, I bought it for violent action, and it had that, but the first half was too oblique to be really engaging. The dubbing is surprisingly good, although the sub of course is better, but the violence is imaginative enough to be worth watching a few times. Print quality is OK, doesn't shake, and there's minimal distortion or color bleed. This is definitely a 'boys only' DVD, with big robots punching the guts out of people and big guns blasting at everything in their post-apocalyptic sights. If that appeals to you, buy it! I did...

if u want a good decent martial arts film then believe me there are plenty to choose from....exept this one. what really pisses me off is that producers con people into thinking that bruce lee apperas in so many movies by puting a picture of the kung fu master on the front of their dvds and video sleeves. it seems that the only way they can attrat people to buy or even watch their [bad] films is to put a picture of bruce lee on the sleeve. it should therefor be noted that the only films which Bruce Lee appeared in were enter the dragon, big boss, way of the dragon and fist of fury. you may also find that certain films which show jackie chan on the cover do not actually star jackie chan himself.
This film is an example of how NOT to choreograph fight scenes, and how to make a bad low budget...kung fu flick. please if u r interested in martial arts films or want to watch good kung fu, there r LOADS of good ones to choose from.....dont buy this one!

This movie was made after Bruce Lee died. It features clips (some never before seen)of various other Bruce Lee movies and uses a look-a-like filmed so that you can't see his face. In terms of story, Lee is killed while trying to stop a helicopter from taking his dead friend's coffin. His younger brother (played by the double who stands in for Lee earlier in the movie) intends to take revenge (how original) so he travels to Japan (why?) to seek vengeance. He eventually discovers the Tower of Death which is a tower built upside down underground. He fights his way to the bottom (if you don't want to know what happens, stop reading this review)and finds that Lee's dead friend was the man behind it. The brother fights the friend in a fight which ends in the friend getting stabbed by his own sword. This movie has often been confused with THE NEW GAME OF DEATH which is a very bad movie that dosen't feature Bruce Lee at all. TOWER OF DEATH has also been released as GAME OF DEATH 2, a sequel to Lee's last movie. That is ridiculas and it was even dubbed to carry on the story of the first GAME OF DEATH which resulted in a very bad film. The movie, TOWER OF DEATH is a 1981 action classic and the last Bruce Lee movie (sort of). In Chinese with English subtitles.

The version I saw is entitled: Goodbye Bruce Lee, His Last Game Of Death. I don't know if that version is the same as this one but this is what happened in the one I saw. The movie begins with the opening credits: a black screen with yellow text and a picture of Bruce Lee on the right. After that, there is some behind the scenes footage from Game of Death. Bruce Lee died before he finished Game of Death and this movie was one of the first and in my opinion the best attempt to remake the movie using doubles. After the behind the scenes footage, we see a Bruce Lee double being taken into a cinema by a movie producer. The producer wants this double to fill in Lee's shoes. He tell the double he is going to show him the footage Bruce Lee filmed before he died. This footage is the rest of the movie. So does the double fill in Lee's shoes? I don't know. Fan's should seek out the British DVD release of Goodbye Bruce Lee.

if u want a good decent martial arts film then believe me there are plenty to choose from....exept this one. what really pisses me off is that producers con people into thinking that bruce lee apperas in so many movies by puting a picture of the kung fu master on the front of their dvds and video sleeves. it seems that the only way they can attrat people to buy or even watch their [bad] films is to put a picture of bruce lee on the sleeve. it should therefor be noted that the only films which Bruce Lee appeared in were enter the dragon, big boss, way of the dragon and fist of fury. you may also find that certain films which show jackie chan on the cover do not actually star jackie chan himself.
This film is an example of how NOT to choreograph fight scenes, and how to make a bad low budget...kung fu flick. please if u r interested in martial arts films or want to watch good kung fu, there r LOADS of good ones to choose from.....dont buy this one!

This movie was made after Bruce Lee died. It features clips (some never before seen)of various other Bruce Lee movies and uses a look-a-like filmed so that you can't see his face. In terms of story, Lee is killed while trying to stop a helicopter from taking his dead friend's coffin. His younger brother (played by the double who stands in for Lee earlier in the movie) intends to take revenge (how original) so he travels to Japan (why?) to seek vengeance. He eventually discovers the Tower of Death which is a tower built upside down underground. He fights his way to the bottom (if you don't want to know what happens, stop reading this review)and finds that Lee's dead friend was the man behind it. The brother fights the friend in a fight which ends in the friend getting stabbed by his own sword. This movie has often been confused with THE NEW GAME OF DEATH which is a very bad movie that dosen't feature Bruce Lee at all. TOWER OF DEATH has also been released as GAME OF DEATH 2, a sequel to Lee's last movie. That is ridiculas and it was even dubbed to carry on the story of the first GAME OF DEATH which resulted in a very bad film. The movie, TOWER OF DEATH is a 1981 action classic and the last Bruce Lee movie (sort of). In Chinese with English subtitles.

The version I saw is entitled: Goodbye Bruce Lee, His Last Game Of Death. I don't know if that version is the same as this one but this is what happened in the one I saw. The movie begins with the opening credits: a black screen with yellow text and a picture of Bruce Lee on the right. After that, there is some behind the scenes footage from Game of Death. Bruce Lee died before he finished Game of Death and this movie was one of the first and in my opinion the best attempt to remake the movie using doubles. After the behind the scenes footage, we see a Bruce Lee double being taken into a cinema by a movie producer. The producer wants this double to fill in Lee's shoes. He tell the double he is going to show him the footage Bruce Lee filmed before he died. This footage is the rest of the movie. So does the double fill in Lee's shoes? I don't know. Fan's should seek out the British DVD release of Goodbye Bruce Lee.

I'm so sorry that many of the reviewers were disappointed that the blood and guts splattered before their eyes were merely special effects. It's always heartbreaking to see any citizen deprived of his God given right to watch his fellow man be massacred on film while they sit in their mom's dank basement with a wide grin on their face. To those who would derive pleasure from the contents of this series, do civilization a favor and reenact your favorite scene. Or you can try reading a book...which ever presents less of a moral dilemma for you.

Don't waste your money on this. It's all fake. They say so in an interview on the first DVD. Then again, you can tell most of it's fake within the first 10 minutes of each DVD. I'm mad that I spent money on these when I could've did something better with it...like bought gum or something.

The only somewhat good thing about the series is the cool music. Especially on the first one. It fits in so morbidly with the scenes that you should see (not buy) it just for that. Go watch the Banned from Television series. That's where the REAL good stuff is.

I saw this "Faces of Death" series a short while ago and I can't even believe that some people class it as "horror"!
To me, it came across as a documentary style series with some doctor narrating about various methods of animal slaughter and tragic human deaths...
To be honest, I found a lot of it rather boring and the film didn't really cover anything that I hadn't seen before - except perhaps, the monkey delicacy, where the animal's brain is bashed in.
I then read the previous reviews and found that most people have said that it's fake! Maybe I'm a bit gormless as I thought they looked real enough! Haha, never mind.
Pretty much a big fuss over nothing and a waste of money, if you ask me. Spend your money on something more interesting!

This is a fair version of the Jon Krakauer book on the Everest disaster of 1996. The characters of the climbers are much richer in the book than this film. Of course, that's often true of any film. However, it's the people who experienced this climb that really make the story vibrate and live. The film takes about two steps back and puts the mountain and conditions first.

It's not a terrible film and a viewer who hasn't read "Into Thin Air" or "The Climb" may find it superficially enjoyable. But why take the time to watch this when you can see a much better view of Everest around the very time this disaster happened by viewing the IMAX film (or its video) and live the experience through one of the two books.

David Breashears, one of the creators of the IMAX film has an excellent book that uses his experience with the climb and the film to study the '96 disaster. This film takes a back seat to his book, too.

Don't plan on reading any of the books? This film is a fair alternative. But the viewer won't understand the complexities and drama of the event through this point of view.

I watched this when it first aired on television. It was interesting enough that I went out and bought the book. After Reading "Into Thin Air" three times, I will say the book is a more captivating attention getter.

I first saw this movie in Global Studies, and even then Mr. Bockelman (my teacher) jumped right in to where Jon Krakauer is struggling to reach the summit of Mount Everest. We didn't even finish the whole film. Then, this weekend, I checked out Mr. Krakauer's book, "Into Thin Air", and found that from what I had seen, the director of the film stayed remarkably close to the book and to the horrific events that happened on Everest in 1996. Overall, I thought that the movie showed many people what happened on May 10, 1996, and of what climbing Everest is really like. Awesome, but chilling.

hmm, this and Zombi 3 are both Terrible!!!! uninventive films with cheesy gore and wimpy effects!!! Dawn of the dead and Day of the dead they are not! this is a boring zombie flick....stay away, intead catch "Night of the living dead", Day and Dawn of the dead" "Zombie" and the "return of the living dead films"...this is a waste of money! I sold mine soon after purchasing, youve been warned

If you take Zombie 4 for what it is, you will find entertainment in it. It is, of course, a poor Italain gore epic. It portrays poor acting, poor gore effects, poor directing, etc. Muct like Zombi 3, it entertains for all the wrong reasons it was intended for....it makes you laugh. It takes place...oh my goodness....on a tropical island! How original! The dead rise and attack some scientists on the island and then some visitors. The zombies aren't your typical zombies; these ones run, jump, THINK, and use weapons. Again if you take this film for what it is, you will find some entertainment in it. One complaint is that the actual title in the film says just "After Death" and the box art says "Zombie 4: After Death". I hate when company's release movies like this. Please put the title of the actual movie on the box! No more white lies!

Italian horror films can often be like the old Hong Kong martial arts flicks where some of them are so much the same that it is nearly impossible for anyone but die-hard genre fans to tell the difference. Such is the case with ZOMBIE 4 which is not really a sequel but pretty much an entire new film.

A vengeful voodoo priest puts a curse on an island causing the gates of hell to open up. Despite its title, the demonic creatures seem more like "demons" than "zombies". In any case, this movie is equal parts Italian zombie flick and second-rate mercernary thriller. The dialouge is awful, the action scenes are very poorly-choreographed, the music is as cheesy as it gets, and the gore effects depend more on blood than any actual make-up.

The walking dead in this film are a problem of their own. Most of them look like undead monks or bad Star Wars characters or something. They seem to switch back and forth from being slow-moving to jumping around like extras on a "Lord Of The Dance" performance. This movie takes a lot of liberties with the traditional zombie movie rules. Director Claudio Fragasso has them talking, firing guns, and doing the aforementioned leaping around. Needless to say, the action of the humans is so predictable, it's nearly irriating. There are so many groups of people that it is hard to figure out who is doing what and where.

Fragasso's direction doesn't help this little flick either. What could have made for a tense moment in which a little girl runs for her life while her parents stay behind to be devoured is about as boring as anyone could have made it. The audience is supposed to understand that twenty years have gone by in between scenes without even being told. I guess the corny rock n' roll theme was our warning. And again, I can't say enough about the zombies. They honestly come off more like actors with down syndrome walking around in bad horror make-up than as scary walking corpses. The more gruesome make-up is saved for the ending which is underwhelming in itself. Claudio Fragasso is definetly no George Romero or even Lucio Fulci. This movie is not bad enough to be great, not nearly as silly as ZOMBI 3 or the hilarious HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD. All in all, if you're really hankering for some grade-Z zombie horror, go for it but you have been warned.