Yip Man | Man Called Hero W/S [VHS]

An e.g. of Hong Kong action motion picture at its many mainstream, A Man Called Hero owes maybe more to the drive-in theatre of Steven Segal than it does the of John Woo. The story of a legendary favourite who borders on the position of superhero, the movie is nude of any future credit by a few of the many shocking dubbing ever seen at the cinema. While the initial Chinese throw might speak up the movie with passion, their American voice-over replacements clearly never done it past the forthright division of behaving class. Each line is delivered with such fake ardour that the movie sounds similar to a cranky between Days of Our Lives and an part of Pokmon. No cinematic clich is left untouched, suggesting that this is not only a box of something mislaid in the interpretation but only a bad film... in anybody's language. The world-wide success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has valid that there is a outrageous marketplace for initial Eastern cinema, even more reason to prevent the meaningless rehashing of the worst of Hollywood that A Man Called Hero positively is. --Phil Udell