|
||
| Screened Sunday 22 February 2004 | ||
|
Hong Kong crime-action film Widow Warriors is one of the many
unacknowledged sources for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Released the same year as John Woo's landmark gangster flick The Killer, Widow Warriors tells the violent story of how the wives of a powerful Chinese triad family take revenge for their husbands' murders. There's no plastic Hollywood slickness or smart alec Asian cinema references here, Widow Warriors is a down and dirty gangster film that captures the look and feel of the great Hong Kong crime movies from the late 1980s early '90s. The film culminates in a bitter showdown between the widows of the Liu family and their would-be successors - the brutal Yim brothers. Machine guns, swords, dynamite and kung fu are used to the max in this explosive confrontation. Finally, the main protagonists engage in one of the most vicious and desperate hand-to-hand combat sequences ever put on film - in what truly is a fight to the death! - JOHN SNADDEN
|
|
|
|
Back to GOLDEN SHADOWS
|
||
