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Streaming Sleepers: CLASH, Vietnamese Martial Arts Action Not To Be Forgotten

With Charlie Nguyen’s The Rebel lending a face and renewed movement in Vietnam action cinema following the successes of Tony Jaa, Jet Li, and Jackie Chan in the decade prior, martial arts fans found themselves a new hero or two with Johnny Tri Nguyen and Veronica Ngo. The two burgeoning stars would reunite several years later for Le Thanh Son’s crime thriller, Clash (or Bẫy rồng), starring the two in a story of a mercenary who gathers a ragtag team to perform a series of dangerous tasks in order to reunite with the daughter she’s been restrained from by her boss, played by Hoang Phuc Nguyen.

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Coming To Netflix In March: FURIES, HIGH & LOW: THE WORST X

I’m plenty of hours late for at least one of these announcements but so far the best news for action fans adherent to Netflix has arrived as of Tuesday with the upcoming additions of Vietnamese action prequel Furies, and Japanese beat ’em up saga continuation High & Low: The Worst X. Of course there’s more in the streamer’s catalog but these are most certainly my picks.

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Now On Hulu: Le-Van Kiet’s THE PRINCESS Crowns Joey King With Brute Force Action And Empowerment

A filmmaker for more than fifteen years, it wasn’t until the 2019 rescue actioner, Furie, that the name, Le-Van Kiet, began registering for a lot of fans beyond the Vietnamese market. This ought to be stated with much credit to North American distributor Well Go USA for doing a more than ample job in proliferating its director, as well as its star, Veronica Ngo, as we now look at one of their latest endeavors expanding further into the West with The Princess, a script by Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton that proffers a fresh, edgy, subversive and satisfyingly violent new take on childhood fairytales.

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Top 50 Action Gems Of The Decade (20-11)

Top 50 Action Gems Of The Decade (20-11)

Sometime late last year, Robb Antequera of The Cinema Drunkie sought for the services of several online film reporters, bloggers and willing participants to help contribute to a top fifty list – with sets of ten of our own written summaries – of the previous decade’s best action gems. I contributed about twelve films among which can currently be read among a mix of forty others now opined online as of this article, and in the wake of entries published over at The Action Elite, Action Flix and Bulletproof Action, the series continues below.

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HAI PHOUNG: Supermom Veronica Ngo Tears Down Vietnam To Save Her Daughter In The Latest Trailer

Le Van Kiet’s directorial debut, Hai Phuong, will be the go-to for the genre crowd in a season that’s looking evermore ripe by the day for action films. Actress Veronica Ngo is starring for her return to the big screen having lended her craft successfully with films like The Rebel, Clash and David Ayer’s recent sci-fi, Bright, doing a female-fronted taken some good justice for its PR route.

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