MAAC Review: AVENGERS – ENDGAME
After 21 movies and a handful of television shows, Avengers: Endgame brings everything to date in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) to an epic...
MAAC Review: SPL 2 – A TIME FOR CONSEQUENCES
A sequel in name (and theme) only to 2005's martial arts crime thriller 'Sha Po Lang' directed by Wilson Yip, SPL 2: A TIME...
MAAC Review: KICKBOXER – RETALIATION
KICKBOXER: RETALIATION takes place one year after the events of 'Kickboxer: Vengeance'. Kurt Sloane (Alain Moussi) has left the illegal underground fighting behind him....
MAAC Review: Revenger
Bruce Khan is a monster. The Hapkido champion, martial artist and stuntman explodes onto the screen in Netflix's Revenger, a bare bones South Korean brawler...
MAAC Review: THE NIGHT COMES FOR US
Aching for the sublime, THE NIGHT COMES FOR US, instead exposes glimpses of subdued guilt and an abrasive, primitive descent into a whirlpool of...
MAAC Review: AVENGEMENT
They have done it again. After working together on recent action classics Savage Dog (2017), Accident Man (2018), The Debt Collector (2018) and Triple...
MAAC Review: THE INVINCIBLE DRAGON
Fruit Chan’s long delayed The Invincible Dragon finally makes its ways to cinema screens, released on the coattails of Chan’s recent Three Husband’s (2019)...
MAAC Review: DEBT COLLECTORS
Considering the seemingly finite nature of the finale of The Debt Collector (2018) I was somewhat surprised when a sequel was announced. I was...
MAAC Review: MARIA
Directed by Pedring Lopez, the slightly exploitation infused female fury flick Maria goes for a time tested set-up. Cristine Reyes stars as Maria, a...
MAAC Review: KUNG FU JUNGLE
Once known as LAST OF THE BEST or KUNG FU KILLER (both very appropriately named), the actual title KUNG FU JUNGLE takes a more...
MAAC Review: RE-BORN
Here in the west actor/martial artist TAK SAKAGUCHI is probably most known for the cult low-budget gangster/zombie-flick 'Versus' (Ryûhei Kitamura, 2000) as well as...
MAAC Review: TOM YUM GOONG 2 aka THE PROTECTOR 2
In 2005, 'Tom Yum Goong' aka 'The Protector' was release as TONY JAA's follow-up to his jaw dropping debut 'Ong Bak'. Needless to say,...
MAAC Review: HOBBS & SHAW
Who would have thought that when director Rob Cohen launched Fast and the Furious (2001) that it would go on to spawn what has...
MAAC Review: THE MONKEY KING
SOI CHEANG directs this prequel to the classic story of 'The Monkey King' depicting the origin of Sun WuKong, played by go-to action 'King'...
MAAC Review: CHASING THE DRAGON 2 – WILD WILD BUNCH
With a filmography filled with lowbrow comedies, rape revenge thrillers and B level action movies, Wong Jing is not the first name that normally...
MAAC Review: NO SURRENDER
Coming hot on the heels of Triple Threat (2019), Scott Adkins returns in a villainous role in the recently released No Surrender. Not content...
MAAC Review: CHASING THE DRAGON
Co-directed by WONG JING and veteran cinematographer JASON KWAN (which explains how bloody gorgeous the film is), CHASING THE DRAGON is a remake of...
MAAC Review: ENTER THE FAT DRAGON
It would seem that Donnie Yen never sleeps. It was only a few months ago that he was gracing our screens with Ip Man...
MAAC Review: IP MAN 3
The dynamic duo of director WILSON YIP (Ip Man, SPL) and martial arts superstar DONNIE YEN is back together once again to cap off...
MAAC Review: We Die Young
After his stellar work in The Bouncer (2018), Jean-Claude Van Damme returns with We Die Young (2019), another small scale feature that focuses more on...
