The Evil Cult (aka "Lord of the Wu Tang") is a wildly and wacky supernatural epic in which Jet Li masquerades as Mo-kei, a weakling warrior orphaned as a child when his parents are killed by two evil Jinx warlords. Chased out of the Wu Tang compound by a leader who considers him a liability, Mo-kei (and his female protectress) find themselves trapped in a dark abyss where they stumble upon a "cooking monk" trapped in a massive boulder who holds the secret to a lost form of Shaolin kung fu. They trick him into teaching Mo-kei the secret of his "solar stance". Newly empowered, Mo-kei sets off to find his maternal grandfather, King of the Gold Lion (de facto leader of the Evil Cult), to rally his clan with the Wu Tang in order to defeat the stifling government forces and exact revenge on the terrible Jinxes. Martial Law's Sammo Hung appears as Chang San Fung, Tai Chi Master of the Wu Tang clan (Hung also choreographed the action sequences for this film). Director Wong Jing (who also helmed the God of Gamblers series, Hard Boiled 2, and Return to a Better Tomorrow) just about keeps a handle on the plot and ably directs the stunning action sequences, some of which occur on battlefields swarming with soldiers. On the DVD: the main feature is presented in letterboxed format with original Cantonese dialogue and English subtitles. The print is generally of good quality but afflicted with blemishes and white flecks throughout. The subtitles are clear but their awkward translation and speed of transition serve at times to make an already convoluted plot harder to understand. It's a shame that an option to listen to a dubbed soundtrack wasn't added as the dubbed theatrical trailer (included here) enhances the daffiness of the movie. [+]

Probably the cool, calm and mind-bogglingly violent Cynthia Rockrock's finest hour and 17 minutes, Angel of Fury finds her cast as Nancy Bolan, the high-powered head of security at the omnipotent corporation HTI, recruited to safely transport a valuable top-secret mega-computer to its buyer. Despite devising a fiendishly cunning plan involving a pair of decoy PCs, Nancy/Cynthia nonetheless soon finds herself being pursued by a gang of ruthless terrorists who always seem to be able to figure out her plans. Could the mole be her ex-lover, recently brought into the fold by HTI? Surely not. All this is, of course, no more than the flimsiest of pretexts for a feature-length dose of La Rothrock's renowned martial-arts expertise, wherein she roundhouses, hooks and axe-kicks her (exclusively male) nemeses into bloody submission while hardly breaking a sweat. Career, friends, the meanest left foot in the western world: surely, Cynthia Rockrock is the woman who has it all. -Danny Leigh.