Dynamite Brothers

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Matthew D 08/12/2021 On its own, a tempid martial arts movie for those in need of a quick undemanding action fix. The Cinematic Titanic version, comedy gold! See more 06/18/2021 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. See more 12/01/2012 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. See more 03/10/2010 Had Aldo Ray not been cast, this would've been less pleasant. See more 02/21/2010 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. See more 12/27/2009 It may seem difficult to believe that someone has managed to screw up a movie in which a character named Stud Brown is handcuffed to someone named Larry Chin and the duo fights druglords while also finding time for love, but it has been done. Please pause and let this sink in for a second. Perhaps this is a bit unfair as the duo are only handcuffed together for about 20 minutes, and about 19 of those minutes are spent fighting "Deliverance" extras and running around aimlessly in the Californian-countryside. Nevermind how our heroes crossed paths. It really doesn't matter. Larry is looking for his long-lost brother and Stud is trying to charm Sarah (complete with the ludicrous serenading of "Sarah and Stud" in Sarah's apartment and it is even worse than you can imagine, believe me). Then we have this cop with a serious racial chip on his shoulder, a guy named "Smiling Man" who has connections and the presence of James Hong as a guy who has an endless supply of 70s henchmen (one of whom I think is punched out by another henchman during a climactic fight scene... it's kind of hard to tell). None of it works and none of it approaches the coveted "so bad, it's good" level that really makes for an entertaining event. From the shoddy camera to the limited production values (good luck to anyone who can figure out what exactly is going on in the nighttime shootout on the street that was apparently taking place during an eclipse) and the sheer confusion of it all (apparently Betty just disappeared in the middle of this movie and was never seen again... I choose to believe she ventured off the set and tried to find a better movie to "act" in), this is painful. See more Read all reviews

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