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Piscopo should have eaten a juice steak sometime after promising to become a vegetarian in that awesome butcher shop scene.

The mystery of the missing octopuss

There are probably million ways to make a joke about its unfortunate title, but none of them matter, because this is pretty much Mount Everest of martial arts cinema.

I would have preferred, I don't know, Lubitsch Island or Wilder Island but this one was pretty good, too.

Ha, this one is like a classic screwball comedy just with so much more kung-fu and hornier servants.

The premise is already wonderfully bonkers: It's like See No Evil Hear no Evil meets Lieutenant Dan Taylor meets that mentally disabled clone from Multiplicity, all spiced up with a healthy dose of acrobatic kung-fu. Would have been my favourite of the bunch if it was a bit tighter and structured better.

Storywise probably the most convoluted out of all the Shaw movies I’ve seen recently, I mean, I’m not even entirely sure what and most importantly why some of the characters do what they do here, but what a blast otherwise. Not a dull moment.

Watched the longer cut

There is nothing that can lift my spirits as suddenly as white guys doing some god-tier awful acting in Hong Kong movies. That "great kung-fu" guy can be proud of himself. Legendary performance.

That said, this one's pretty damn entertaining with a lot of proto-John Woo heroic bloodshed stuff and tons of silly weirdness like obsession with hot dogs and electronic watches.

“Perhaps we all should go back inside”

Soderbergh's most pure movie since Haywire and probably the most entertaining too. Kravitz is a great physical performer.

Norse mythology is just about the most perfect fit for a darkly funny, gnarly trip into the nature of masculinity and its apparent absurdity, but then you have a 90 million dollar budget and have to make certain sacrifices. It's almost too straight-forward and normal.

Will revisit in the future.

As much as I liked the first and the last segment, the middle one makes this one special.