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Black Mask 2

  Country : Hong Kong / USA
Year: 2003
Genre: Action
Format: DVD
Running Time: 1H41
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Date reviewed: 08/14/2003
   
Producer: Alice Chan, Tiffany Chen, Charles Heung, Tsui Hark
Director: Tsui Hark

Cast:
Andy On, Tobin Bell, Jon Polito, Teresa Herrera, Tyler mane, Andrew bryiarski, Traci Lords, Rob Van Dam, Oris Erhuero, Robert Allen Mukes, Michael Bailey Smith

 


Story: Black Mask is back! This time around he's in the search for the origins of his powers. On the way however, he discovers a renegade mystery man who possesses the very ingredients to mutate people into hideous man-beasts. With an evil plan to turn everyone in te world to these mutated man-beasts, Black Mask has no choice but to lend his super amazing awesome powers to save the human race. Go Black Mask, go!

Review: Sometimes films are greeted with tears of joy at the end credits. Sometimes films are greeted with tears of sorrow at the end credits. Sometimes films are greeted with tears of immense displeasure at the end credits. By the end of "Black Mask 2," you want to pick up a pitchfork and a torch and gather up a mob to storm the streets, burning everything in site and flipping every car over. You want to hang Black Mask himself in effigy are torch his body because a movie centered around his character has just gobbled up your precious time (and you'll never get it back again).

I'm not over-exaggerating when I say this: your time is better spent trying to stick your own head up your ass than watching this movie. You'll not only see a part of yourself that gets minimum sun exposure, but you'll also discover that you are more flexible than you once thought! I honestly felt like carving my eyes out with a rusty spoon halfway through the film, but I didn't. I didn't do it because I love the KFCC readers and I knew I had to warn you about this God-awful film. But I had the spoon in my hands, ready at any moment to penetrate my eye sockets and dig out my beautiful pearly Asian eyes out.

Now usually I'm able to find something positive in a bad film. For "Black Mask 2," I'll have to say that the last two fight sequences were pretty cool. Tsui Hark should be "okay" to have his name attached to the last few minutes. However, for the rest of the movie, Tsui Hark should be embarrassed. Sure, there's action scenes in this movie, but practically all of them contain terrible CGI and stupid moves. Some people have said some of the fights were fun. Aside from the last one, I personally thought they all sucked. If you take the action and compared it to other Tsui hark film, it sucks. If you take the action and let the film stand up by itself, it still sucks.

The characters in this film just aren't interesting! For example, the sexy doctor that does nothing but serve as eye-candy is boring! Even in the random scene where all her clothes come off, I didn't even bother to catch a glimpse! Like most characters in this movie, I simply did not care about this doctor! Most of the cast consist of WCW wrestlers. In the ring, those WCW wrestlers can sure put on a show. On film it's a different story. Now, I'm not sure if it was just the terrible dialogue or if it was just that they couldn't act, but all the acting in this movie were painfully bad. The Hong Kong release of this film got the right idea: re-dub it with big name actors and turn the unintentional laughable dialogue into intentional laughable dialogue.

What is going on Mr. Hark?! How can a man with so much creativity and style make this horrendous film?! Not even birds passing by would take a crap on this film! Please, return to your roots and make those films we all love ever-so-dearly Mr. Hark! I don't care if you make "Once Upon a Time a China 17: Wong Fey Hong Meets Mr. Werewolf" or "Legend of Zu: Sex in Zu Mountain".......but PLEASE make it up-to-par with your stellar films of the past!

DVD [ NTSC, Region 1 ] :

Great 5.1 sound and a great anamorphic transfer is always a plus! However, with next to NO special features (a trailer?! WHOA!), this DVD is definitely not worth your time. Skulk around and find a DVD with the Chinese dub (oh yea, and also understand Chinese).

Reviewed by JoE Shieh


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