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Now here's a stylish film. By that, of course, I mean that the direction is heavy-handed enough that there is rarely a moment of movie-watching where you don't notice it. This is not always a bad thing. (note: NYPD Blue=bad) Tokyo Raiders is as slick as poop in oil. That's slick. Everyone in this movie is sexy except the Pontiac convertible. I don't know anything about film (but alot about movies), so I'm not going to say this movie is in any way groundbreaking, but I will say I've never seen anything quite like it.

Me and Reynolds saw the Blockbuster formatted-to-fit-your-screen dub, so I'm sure we missed some good stuff, but as always, a poor dub provides an entirely seperate avenue of viewing entertainment. Where do they find these people? Is there a booth at a mall somewhere? Don't movie distributors realize there are professionals that do voiceovers? Why, I think they're even called voiceover artists. I agree with Shawny here that they could at least get Asians with Asian accents instead of Buffy California and Chet American. Ah, hell.

Tokyo Raiders. A very fast and loose movie. A very confusing movie. A very confusingly shot movie. I'm still a little woozy. The fight scenes- or what I caught of them- were pretty good for essentially non-martial artists (nice try, Keanu. "You know kung fu" my butt.) The fighting was not quite as stylized-to-the-point-of-incomprehensible-obscurity as, say, Ashes of Time, but it's probably a sure runner-up.

Here's a thing: Only in a kung fu movie would it seem plainly obvious that a character who is playing an interior decorator also happens to be an excellelnt martial artist. It isn't questioned. Definitely tied to those preconceptions that all Asian guys are ass-kickers (and all Asian women are beautiful). If an American movie had a badass interior decorator character, the audience would nod knowingly and say to themselves "Oh, he's probably an undercover cop."

  Ah, shit. You think you're going up. In fact, you're going down. - tom may 10, 01

 HIGHLIGHTS FROM: TOKYO RAIDERS (2000)

EXPLOSIONS? one big fake one.

NO-SHADOW KICK? A number of similar both-legs-at-once moves, but mostly while being held up by a pole.

MONKS?  No.

BEST LINE: "They shouldn't have done that to me. Lucky I brought my comb."

SOUNDTRACK: Bad Latin pop, written by an American and performed by a Chinese guy.

OWN IT?  I'm keeping my eyes open for the non-dubber, even though I realize I could really be screwing myself.

SEE ALSO: Hard Boiled, Charlie's Angels, My Father is a Hero, and a wonderful English-to-Chinese-to-English translation of this review

The movie Tokyo Raiders was not the best kung fu movie I've seen some ot the lines were corney too. But for a fairly resent movie I think its earned it do. I mean on a scale from one to ten I think its about a seven. Personal I think if you want to see a good fighting movie I highly recomend Once upon a time in China. The acting could be better but the fighting scenes are signiture to Jet Li. So if your in the mood for a good fighting movie watch this.

Sincerly ,

Ben Beaudoin March 11 03

Who's Jet Li?

- Tom March 31 03

Hi, I want to know where can I buy the soundtrack of this movie and whom are the artist names.
Thanks a lot

- Leandro Luzzi

PS: I live in Argentina

Does this look like Amazon.com? Does it? No seriously, does it?

- Tom (NSK) March 31 03

I really liked the song "From Now On" in the movie Tokyo Raiders. Do you know where I can get the soundtrack?

Thank You

- Myzkitty March 23, 03

No, seriously. Does it?

- Tom (NSK) March 31 03

put the fucking address of where to find the god damn movie at!!! please :-)

Erik Mangold

Seriously.

- Tom (NSK) March 31, 03

I really enjoyed the shots in the movie and also how they sped up and slowed down the scenes to enunciate. There was one transition that I had to back up several times to really study and when I did finally did see it, I realized it was just a really fast playback of a pan from one character to the other.

- Jade