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Wheels on Meals (1984) NeoDB TMDB Douban
快餐車
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Jackie Chan / Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
other title: Il mistero del conte Lobos / Wheels On Meals
Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.
The Street Fighter (1974) TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
激突! 殺人拳
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sonny Chiba / Etsuko Shihomi
other title: Den sorte drage / Der Wildeste von allen
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
Sept. 7, 2025 watched
All-out, practically non-stop action! With the displays of violence I thought only existed in The Story of Ricky, like an X-ray view of a punch smashing a guy's skull, or ripping off a rapist's genitals and showing them to the camera.

X Rated
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Red Sun Rising (1994) NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Red Sun Rising
director: Francis Megahy actor: Don Wilson / Terry Farrell
other title: Sole rosso sangue / Soleil rouge
Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho. He tracks down the killer and his master to Los Angeles, where he teams up with Det. Karen Ryder. Soon they discover that Jaho is preparing a gang war and weapon smuggling ring. Hoshino must find a way to defeat the killer who posses mystical ninja powers.
Aug. 13, 2025 watched
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars as a Japanese cop who must overcome culture shock (i.e. US racism and cars much larger than back home) and learn the Power of the Laser Finger.

Not bad... for a Don "The Dragon" Wilson movie, if you know what I mean, and if you're a sucker for 90s action like I am.
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Equalizer 2000 (1988) NeoDB WikiData IMDb
Equalizer 2000
director: Cirio H. Santiago actor: 理查德·诺顿 / Corinne Wahl
other title: Defender 2000 / 废土战士
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Aug. 15, 2025 watched
Directed by Roger Corman protégé Santiago, who brought us flicks like the Filipino Blaxploitation women in prison movie The Muthers. And multiple Mad Max 2 ripoffs. (About 2 a year in the 80s and 90s?)

This one seems to have every single outdoor scene take place in the same quarry (except for the world's crappiest canyon car jump?), just shot from different angles.

Slade (Norton) builds the world's most redundant assault rifle with like 6 barrels, which automagically wipes the floor against all opponents.

If they had put one tenth of the effort into the story as they did the (pretty awesome) action, it might have been half-way decent.
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Eliminators (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Eliminators
director: Peter Manoogian actor: Andrew Prine / Denise Crosby
other title: Destroyers / Decapitron
A former pilot rebels against his creator, teaming up with the scientist responsible for android technology, her pet robot Spot, a rough-and-tumble riverboat guide, and a martial arts warrior.
Sept. 4, 2025 watched
The plot, the acting, the effects, the pacing... none of them were anywhere near as bad as I was expecting. They were often downright good. Is this movie... kind of great???
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The Limey (1999) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Limey
director: Steven Soderbergh actor: Terence Stamp / Lesley Ann Warren
other title: L'inglese / O Falcão Inglês
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
Escape from New York (1981) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Escape from New York
6.6 (5 ratings) director: John Carpenter actor: Kurt Russell / Lee Van Cleef
other title: 1997: Fuga da New York / Flugtaktion New York
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Aug. 19, 2025 watched
Another collaboration between Kurt and John that somewhat presciently explores the rise of the incarceral state and authoritarianism in the US. With plenty of great action scenes to boot.

Rewatched in #MondayActionMovie #WatchParty on Mastodon
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