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Maximum Impact (2017) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Максимальный удар
director: Andrzej Bartkowiak actor: Alexander Nevsky / Mark Dacascos …
other title: Máximo impacto / Максимальный удар
The agents of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the US Secret Service are forced to work together to prevent a full-scale international crisis.
Dec. 28, 2025 watched
The FSB are the good guys! Rashist money bought a lot of foreign B-listers, but not much of a movie.

Mark Dacascos at least enjoys himself hamming it up as an "evil Jean-Claude Van Johnson", a fading martial arts star who has become a hitman with a penchant for terrible disguises & accents. I'd pay to see him in "Shaolin Cop"!

Kelly Hu gorgeous & confident, but we never got a fight with her & Mark.

Alexander Nevsky shows all the charisma of a block of wood.

Tom Arnold, Eric Roberts, Danny Trejo, Bai Ling, Matthias Hues & Billy Baldwin showed up to collect their cheques. Actually, I don't think Billy even showed up, just did it remotely.

https://watch.mometu.com/feature/maximum-impact
2010s Action ActionComedy AlexanderNevsky AlphonsoMcAuley
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Violent Night (2022) TMDB
Violent Night
director: Tommy Wirkola actor: David Harbour / John Leguizamo …
other title: Una notte violenta e silenziosa / Noite Violenta …
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.
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Bad Black (2016) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bad Black
director: Nabwana IGG actor: Nalwanga Gloria / Alan Hofmanis …
A mild-mannered doctor is trained in the art of ass-kicking commando vengeance by a no-nonsense ghetto kid in an effort to regain a family heirloom from Uganda’s toughest gang.
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Kung Fu Hustle (2004) IMDb NeoDB TMDB Douban
功夫
8.6 (28 ratings) director: Stephen Chow actor: Stephen Chow / Yuen Qiu …
other title: Kung Fusion / Kung Fu Zão …
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
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Pedicab Driver (1989) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
群龍戲鳳
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo / Nina Li Chi …
other title: 群龍戲鳳
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) IMDb WikiData
The Long Kiss Goodnight
director: Renny Harlin actor: Geena Davis / Samuel L. Jackson …
other title: Spy / A Profissional …
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
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Yes, Madam! (1985) TMDB IMDb
皇家師姐
director: Corey Yuen Kwai actor: Michelle Yeoh / John Shum Kin-Fun …
other title: Yes, Madam / Ultra Force 2 …
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
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Firewalker (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Firewalker
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Chuck Norris / Louis Gossett Jr. …
other title: Il tempio di fuoco / Caminho de Fogo …
A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6.2 (5 ratings) director: Shane Black actor: Robert Downey Jr. / Val Kilmer …
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
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From Beijing with Love (1994) NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
國產凌凌漆
8.2 (13 ratings) director: Stephen Chow / Lee Lik-Chi actor: Stephen Chow / Anita Yuen Wing-Yee …
other title: Liebesgrüße aus Peking / Bons baisers de Pékin …
A Chinese secret agent travels to Hong Kong to reclaim a dinosaur fossil but experiences hilarious incidents because of his incompetence.
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Magic Crystal (1986) NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
魔翡翠
director: Wong Jing actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Andy Lau …
other title: El cristal mágico / The Magic Crystal
Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.
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Shaolin Soccer (2001) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
少林足球
7.8 (13 ratings) director: Stephen Chow actor: Stephen Chow / Richard Ng …
other title: Kung Fu Futebol Clube / Shaolin Kickers
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
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Mr. Vampire (1985) NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
殭屍先生
8.6 (9 ratings) director: Ricky Lau actor: Lam Ching-Ying / Ricky Hui Koon-Ying …
other title: Mr Vampire / El señor de los vampiros
The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
Oct. 13, 2025 watched
A fantastically enjoyable Sammo Hung-produced action/horror/comedy with the hopping undead (goengsi/jiangshi).

Loved and watched this film since ~1990

Rewatched (for the umpteenth time) 12 October 2025 in #MonsterMiru #WatchParty after #Monsterdon on Mastodon.
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