Plantiana
Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
Teringer
An Exercise In Nonsense
SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
jackcheng69
Road map of Fighting Fish is very predictable. Content is razor thin and I suspects some copy work too. And the actor's performance can be compared with Arnold Schwarzenegger in this early years. Although the stif character of the A-Ken suits very well.You have to watch this movie with a martial arts glasses. And when you do this, Fighting Fish is one of the top I have seen. It is not the spectacular kind of special effects a la Matrix. But more a slow and long shoot action style. There is of course show elements but the actions scenes are sublime. Especially the combination with the Asian drum like music make this movie a top in his kind.
Terence
And if you're not a martial arts fan, this is such a crappy movie, it should be a cult hit. The dialog is beyond cliché, the sets are visibly cheap, and the Chinese main character speaks English with a Dutch accent! So, when I saw it for the first time, I had a great time. And I've seen it several times after and it's still funny. Thank god the director took himself so seriously. The original screenplay was less than 60 pages, because time is filled with long martial art scenes. And the classic ones, so no wires. There were plans to re-release it as a cult film, but eventually they just released it on DVD. Too bad, because it would have been great as an audience participation flick. Even the producer would have wanted it that way. But there's still that director who thinks to highly of this huge Dutch flop.
r-dathesta
1. This movie has an horrible story, the Street Figher games have a better plot. 2. The dialogs are horrible, the few that are in the movie, because a great deal of the movie consists of fighting scenes. 3. The only positive point that I have given this movie 1 point is that the fighting scenes look very professional and realistic. The thing is that after a whole bunch of fights it becomes a little boring to watch... I is sad that this movie, completely recorded in Rotterdam, has only been two weeks in the Dutch Cinema. I thought i'll try to view it anyway, but I have lost two precious hours of my life watching Chantal Janzen acting in this horrible movie.
TheOtherFool
A lot of this movie was made before it came out, as it's the first martial arts film from the Netherlands. After watching there can be 2 conclusions made: 1. it will probably be the last M.A. film from the Netherlands as well and 2. there's a reason for that.Let's look at the story first. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy has to 'do something' for honour of the family. Girl gets beaten up by gang. Older brother forbids the formerly 'bad guy' to stay in her life. In the end it all works out.I know, booooriiiiiing. So let's look at what should have made this movie special. Should have, because this movie is everything but special. Now, these martial arts fighting scenes are so silly, the camera-work is so dull and the fights way too long... one can only wonder, 'what were they thinking'?The movie got slammed both by the critics as well as the public, and there's a reason for that...2/10.
