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Some of the funniest lines ever in a film. Full stop., 16 September 2003
10/10
Author: bilbicus (thebilbicus@yahoo.co.uk) from Edinburgh

This film has some of the most priceless quotations I have ever heard. The other review gives a rounded appraisal of this film's charms, bar quoting some of the fine examples of the English language that this film boasts.

Par example:

(Start of film - that is *prologue* and shows scenes from "Day of the Panther" in attempt to pad out running time by showing best bits from the prequel)

(Good guy has bad guy lying there, begging for his life)

Bad Guy: I have money!

Good Guy: So have I.

(Another great one - Jason Blade, The film's protagonist and all round good egg, is on a bloodthirsty rampage around a brothel striking a blow for moral decency and bad fashion)

(Jason Blade kicks down a door. Inside the room is a naked woman and a guy in a chicken suit)

Jason Blade: You're ssssssick!

This film is incredible. There is this one scene where Jason Blade and his girlfriend Gemma (She should be called Jade - "Jade Blade") are dancing with each other. Jason is the world's worst dancer, and this display is just so cringeworthy that you actually can't watch.

Jason Blade - working class hero, secret policeman and kung-fu instructor.

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An Australian Martial Arts Film, can it be?, 6 August 2002
10/10
Author: Comrad Corner (comradcorner@email.com) from Greece and Australia

I couldn't believe it when i saw it, an Australian martial arts movie. Playing just past 3am I expected a low budget movie, but i didn't expect it to be an Australian martial arts movie. Another gem of a film which I came across staying up yet another night.

Jason Blade is back in Perth, Australia, to form a crime task force to assist in the capture of the lethal Jim Baxter, a criminal martial arts master. Baxter has just made a daring escape from jail to renew his vendetta against Blade. When Baxter kidnaps Blade's girlfriend Gemma, a martial arts confrontation ensures from which there can emerge only one victor, Blade.

The final sequence in an abandoned electricity plant is thrilling, with great fight sequences. Along with an old woman psychiatrist, who thinks she's a commando, and a veteran martial arts instructor, Strike of the Panther is great. I just never thought I would see an Australian martial Arts film, because they just didn't exist. I just recently discovered there is a first film "Day of the Panther", and "Strike of the Panther" is its sequal. I'll probably never find a copy, but i have high hopes for it to play in the middle of the night, just like all the low budget movies I love to watch.

I recommend you also see Cobra Force, which is the greatest low budget movie.

Great Movie, Terrible acting, fake sound effects, predictable plot, at times unbelievable, martial arts, and Australian, 10 out of 10, what can I say, I gave Titanic a 1

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This defies the laws of the universe. This is worse than the first one., 16 February 2006
1/10
Author: edwithmj from United Kingdom

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First off, this movie tries cheaply to economise on running time by having seven minutes of footage from the first movie at the start. (In fact it just shows how bad the first movie was if the whole plot can be described IN DETAIL in seven minutes.) The movie has "Jason Blade". That name is really bad. It sounds like some James Bond rip off or Homor Simpson's one time alias "Max Power". In fact the first movie has these words at the end: "Jason Blade will return in Strike of the Panther". I can hardly wait! At one point he is dressed like a tough, Steve Mcqueen type! He is actually evil! He smiles when he hurts someone and he tries to kill the baddies at every opportunity instead of knocking them out! Great hero and a real role model. The start of the movie has blade in a brothel where he constantly places judgement on other men's sexual preferences. He says to this man in a chicken suit: "You're sick!", and he says to this man dressed up as a schoolboy: "Piss off". I find this unbelievable; especially when "Jason Blade" is sleeping with a woman with whom he is not living and to whom he is not married. Great morality Jason. In every single scene I found that his mannerisms, his rip off of Arnie's line: "I lied" (The man had thought he had a deal but obviously he was wrong), and the bad sound effects (every punch sounds EXACTLY the same) made me absolutely hate Jason Blade. Edward Stazak is a very bad actor and the whole movie is full of badly delivered lines. I want him to lose every fight and I find myself cheer every time he gets hit. That mentor of his has a nasty habit of not closing his mouth when he is not speaking. He tries to act all spiritual: "He wills himself not to feel pain" and the film gives the impression that he can sense danger telepathically. He is lying in bed and it implies that he is talking to "Jason Blade" with his thoughts. VERY cringe worthy. He meditates as if to say "I am at peace" or some arrogant bullshit like that. Funny that the "Master" attempted to stop a car in which his kidnapped niece was by standing in front of it! He ended up with three broken ribs as a car door smashed into him! Great move there! He has great respect for women as well: "Go away woman". Really spiritual. That was actually meant to be funny? The bloke who plays him is some crappy third rate actor from Australia who never hit the big time. He simply cannot act! Then the mentor is lying in hospital with "Jason Blade" over his bed looking lovingly into his eyes in a scene which tries to have emotion instead of the usual poorly timed action. It is so clichéd that I could hardly watch. The film has no real plot. At one time, "Jason Blade" was chasing after this man and I had absolutely no idea who he was. The main theme to this movie is a boring, awfully acted hostage situation in an abandoned power plant. A hostage negotiator is present who looks like a cross between Brigitte Nielsen and Elizabeth Taylor at age 70. She is good though as she has "been in Northern Ireland". Wow, big time! The hostage seems to be tied up in a different way every time! The cops are back from the first movie but now they act like professionals instead of the bumbling imbeciles from the first movie. The Australian accent of the film just dumbs the whole thing down. Makes it sound cheap and nasty. One knows that one is about to watch a bad movie. I just knew what was going to happen at the end! Edward Stazak just looks so ugly and just hasn't the face of an action hero. The sound affects also include a piano type noise while a ninja star goes in someone's head! Haha classic! That annoying beat music/noise that is in the background during every fight, I just can't stand it! Extremely crap and that's the truth.

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