lord_power Reviews

Rolling Thunder (1996 TV Movie)

a b movie with interesting characters

[10 November 2004]

Rolling thunder is a "B" movie about an x-army group and an engineer who are given the opportunity to head up a new "non lethal" approach at law enforcement. After having to steal their vehicles back to field test them the military reluctantly gives the group a mission to prove the projects worth. They have to break out a snitch from a militant group that the fbi is unable to touch due to lack of evidence.

The movie is decent for a B movie. The special effects aren't very good and the vehicles look cumbersome. The characters are exaggerated but somewhat interesting anyway(especially lewis and his "bar trick"). It almost seemed like the setup for a series or follow up movies although none have surfaced as of yet. It probably wouldn't have been bad as a series at least for the time period it was released.

Black Sash (2003)

Russel wong in probably another underrated series

[30 March 2003]

Russel Wong plays a martial artist who has recently taken over a martial arts studio for his teacher. His students each have there own unique problems and reasons for joining including the two newest additions to the school one who joined cause his dad beats him and a girl obsessed with one of the other students. apparently russel wong's character was a former cop who was framed by his partner and the triads in hong kong. he did some hard time in a hong kong prison or "hong kong hard time" as one of his students phrases it. apparently with the opening of the series he has only been out of prison for a couple of months which means that he has only been running the martial arts school for about that long. His character is also faced with some legal battles over being able to see his daughter which leads him to have to bounty hunt on the side so that he can afford the lawyers and court fees because his school doesn't make much money.

The series is a good idea seeming to revolve around the interaction of the characters and there various problems with Russel Wong who as there teacher must guide them in the right direction while he himself returns to his master for help. I like the premise. I like the characters so far. However the martial arts coreography is not the best the scenes with russel are ok but the other student that is shown in an actual "fight" in the first episode is very VERY bad. I could live with it however in that she is a student and thus shouldn't have the greatest technique then again she has been with him for a while as she is not one of the new students and she almost injurs two of the other students kind of setting her up as the top student. So other than the coreography with her i definitely reccomend it.