Dynamite Brothers

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David L Really enjoyed this movie. Brings me back to the days of Kung fu and Bruce Lee. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/29/23 Full Review Matthew D On its own, a tempid martial arts movie for those in need of a quick undemanding action fix. The Cinematic Titanic version, comedy gold! Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/12/21 Full Review Audience Member You know how Reese's Peanut Butter Cups old commercials used to go? Well, the makers of this movie got a real smart idea. They took the two big trends of the early 70s — blacksploitation and martial arts — and made one movie with both of them. Stud Brown (Timothy Brown, a former NFL player who was also on M*A*S*H*) and Larry Chin (Alan Tang) unite to battle drug dealers and find Chin's brother Wei (James Hong). They're up against a corrupt cop named Detective Burke (Aldo Ray!) and the disappearance of our hero's brother may not be as tragic as it seems. What makes this movie worth watching is the dream team of director Al Adamson and producer Cirio H. Santiago. Lovers of truly bottom basement movies see these two names and feel a certain twinge, the kind you get when you remember young love or holidays gone by. Another important thing for lovers of 70s exploitation cinema to notice is that the deaf mute love interest Sarah is played by Carol Speed, who is known and loved as Abby. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Dynamite Brothers (AKA East Meets Watts) is an interesting film. Not on so much a technical level, but on just the sheer amount of actors in it. You have Timothy Brown, who at that point was only known for his small-lived role of Spearchucker on the first season of M*A*S*H, but also James Hong, who shows up in the cast as a villain. On that level, it at least bears some sort of merit. Everything else is pretty much a mess. Sure the martial arts sequences are pretty good, but they're a dime a dozen for this type of genre. There's nothing special about them, or this film. It's your standard east meets west sort of movie, and not a very good one. It was taken to town on an episode of Cinematic Titanic under its alternate title though. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Had Aldo Ray not been cast, this would've been less pleasant. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Hippie fight! Extras from BJ and The Bear square off against the cast of a Shaw Brothers film in this wacky 70s gem. Timothy Brown and Alan Tang are forced together in a quest to fight drug pushers and find Tang's long lost brother. Pimps, pushers, Chinese drug lords (James Hong!), open shirts, and lots of red paint for blood. The editing is laughably bad, as is the film's sense of geography (why was an apartment across the street in one scene, and across town in another? Why when you look left on any given busy city street can you find a block of burned out, semi-abandoned buildings? Hang on, wasn't he just driving in the mountains?). Great fun, and a good watch with like minded friends. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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