Wicked City
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List Price: $24.99
Features
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Letterboxed
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 1992
DVD Release : 30 March, 1999 |
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Wicked City Customer Reviews
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One and a half stars - This is wicked boring poo-poo...
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I have a vague memory of seeing the live Hong-Kong version of Wicked City prior to watching the Anime version, and liking it. No idea why I got the viewing order switched around, but these things happen. I even remember liking this low-budget sci-fi stuntfest AFTER watching the Anime.
Funny how your mind can play tricks on you. With that tiny, vague memory in place, I bought a used DVD copy at a fire-sale that my local video store was having (should'a been a hint, probably). Feeling oddly like I'd just found a long lost bit of treasure, I gleefully tore home, popped the disk in my DVD player, and spent the next hour and a half bored out of my mind, wondering what the h*** I'd been thinking.
There's plenty going on here... More than director Tai Kit Mak can seem to get a handle on. The movie is creative enough within its confined budget, with more special effects, cheesy acting (LOTS of jump cuts to over-emoting actors wearing baggy suits or doe-eyed actresses in skimpy dresses), and hyper-kinetic, high-flying stunts than you can shake a creepy vampire-spider-lady at.
The plot? Something about a hundred year old war between speedy, gun-toting Humans and super-powered Monsters disguised as humans, that's quickly coming to a nasty head. Two Hong Kong cops and the head-honcho monster's daughter are the only thing standing in the way of a full-monster takeover, via an imported Monster drug called 'Happiness'; a highly addictive energy drug that causes a nasty case of spontaneous combustion if you stop taking it.
My advice? Stick with the Anime - although I haven't seen that in a long time either, so maybe it's as bad as this...
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