Outlaw Brothers (1990) (2025)

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• Review by FakeVoorhees ★★★★ 2

  If you're looking for an intricately plotted, tightly scripted action film with strong dramatic performances, remove a star or two from my rating. But if you just want great action scenes and don't mind that they're strung together by a throwaway plot and goofball comedy, this is a four star experience.

• Review by Headhunter666 ★★★½ 6

  Jau, die Nummer macht aber mal so wirklich Laune.
  Ein im hohen Drehzahlbereich knatterndes Speed- und Klopperfest mit ordentlich Zunder im Tank und Carsploitation-Feeling.

  
  James und Bond klauen teure Sportwagen, damit diese wieder teurer weiter verkauft werden.
  Dumm nur das die beiden irgendwann einmal an fiese Drogengangster geraten, die in einem Sportauto ordentlich Koks bunkern und schmuggeln.
  Yukari Ôshima grätscht zur Stelle und teilt wieder wunderbar aus.

  
  Ganz klar steht hier der Spassfaktor an vorderster Stelle und die Martial Arts-Akrobatik fetzt grandios.
  Das Finale in der Lagerhalle kann sich sehen lassen und kaum ein Knochen bleibt auf dem anderen.
  Wer sich verwundert die Schläfen reibt wegen den Namen der beiden Diebe sieht richtig:
  Der ein- oder andere kleine spitzbübische Gimmick…

• Review by Justin Decloux ★★★★ 1

  The fact that so many stone-cold action classics still exist for me to watch gets me out of the bed in the morning. Yes. That's it. Not my loved ones, my creative passions, or the chance to make good in the world - just action films.

  Two brothers steal cars, get involved accidentally in drug running and kick a lot of ass.

  Yukari Oshima is a wonder. I don't want to say that the industry failed her (She was in 77 projects), but there's no reason she shouldn't have been the equivalent of Jackie Chan. She moves amazingly, she's really funny, and she can act the shit out of anything. Like most of the actors from the golden age of…

• Review by Daxtreme ★★★★ 9

  How could anyone DARE hit Sheila Chan? While watching I was like… can anyone PLEASE teach this guy a lesson?

  Luckily for me, the main character obliged. Cue Steve Carrell Thank you gif.

  One sad thing that holds this movie back from being one of the best in the genre though is the random cruelty toward those chickens at the end. That was so unnecessary... Same scene, no animals being hurt, doesn't affect the story one bit.

  Still, I'm not the type to get too mad at those things but it happens and that part sucks. This movie does kick a lot of ass though!
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  Stunts - 94/100 | The opening action scene lasts almost 10 minutes all by…

• Review by More_Badass ★★★★

  Always enjoyed this but revisiting it now, Outlaw Brothers just feels so perfectly quintessential. Everything you could want or expect in a ‘90s HK action film - Yukari Oshima kicking metric tons of ass, blue-tinted neon-slathered nights, actors and stuntmen clinging from speeding cars, yelling packs of pipe-wielding goons, a knife in the butt, a warehouse full of cardboard boxes, shockingly gratuitous animal cruelty - packed into 97 lightly-comedic fight-&-stunt-filled minutes.

• Review by MontyMole ★★★½ 5

  BORN TO FIGHT 4

  Da ja BORN TO FIGHT 4 hinlänglich bekannt sein dürfte, fällt mein Senf nur sehr kurz und eher mild als scharf aus.

  Ist einfach schon damals ein kleiner Geheimtipp gewesen und auch relativ viele aus meinem damaligen Freundeskreis kannten diesen Film zwecks Mundpropaganda usw. Aufgrund der kürzlich erst erschienenen deutschen Erst-VÖ's auf DVD vom Label "Phoenix Distribution", erfolgte nun eine weitere Sichtung nach knapp zwanzig Jahren (müsste hinkommen).

  Im Grunde bedient BORN TO FIGHT 4 das Genre des Cop-Gangster-Buddy Filmes, darunter einige Nebenhandlungen und wie so oft und üblich in Hongkong-Filmen dieser Art verläuft der Plot nicht immer ganz nachvollziehbar bzw. hat seine Ecken und unrunde Kanten, so dass man öfter mal den Faden verlieren kann.…

• Review by Dennis Vehlen ★★★½ 2

  A classic case of a Hong Kong movie that's fun but has an outstandingfinal twenty minutes. The climax filled with breathtaking stunts, snakes, cocaine, chickens, swords and other bloodshed is utterly insane and Yukari Ôshima doesn't get enough credit as one of the coolest female action starts of the time.

• Review by Chedly Ouni ★★★½

  I was expecting a movie in the same vein as the In the Line of Duty franchise, what I got was that in a way only way goofier. At first I thought Yukari Ôshima was Cynthia Khan they're both cute and can kick some major ass and Ôshima's character is a no nonsense Hong Kong Detective called Tequila, so this film was one of the inspirations for Hard Boiled which earns this a whole half a star from my part. unfortunately not the whole film focuses on her, instead we follow these two car thieves called James and Bond, and they're just not as interesting, the humour more persistent with their plot line is mostly hit or miss and the…

• Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★

  This is more what I’d expected to find in a Frankie Chan movie: a light action comedy with a bunch of fun and athletic action sequences and a goofy 80s Hong Kong tone, rather than the expressive brutality of the previous year’s Burning Ambition. Chan stars with Max Mok (who picked up Yuen Biao’s role as Leung Foon in the Once Upon a Time in China sequels) as a pair of car-thieving buddies who run afoul of Oshima Yukari’s cop Officer Tequila (two years before Chow Yun-fat played Officer Tequila in Hard-Boiled, I like to think they’re the same character). Chan woos Oshima (or is it the other way around?) and Mok woos a bargirl (the lovely Sharon Kwok, who…

• Review by Keith Adams Jr. ★★★½

  Quickie Review
  A Dragon Dynasty title that I’ve been wanting to check out for some time now, this Hong Kong action-comedy follows the story of a pair of brothers who happen to be a two-man team of car thieves and they get their hands on some high-end vehicles and get a pretty penny for them but they find themselves caught in the crosshairs of two very different yet equally dangerous women: a master criminal whose car that the guys steal contain a fortune in drugs and money and the determined undercover policewoman who’s doggedly on the case and while one’s out to put them in the dirt and get her stuff back, the other is out to bust them both.…

• Review by Lazyboots ★★★★ 2

  Lean and mean in just the way you'd want with your Hong Kong action movies! Outlaw Brothers keeps a great pace and has a good variety of action with car stunts, great fight scenes, and lots of nobel stuntmen dutifully wiping out for our entertainment. Best of all Yukari Ōshima is radiating some impeccable bi vibes with her killer outfits and appreciation of lady muscles. I'm not kidding there's a very homoerotic scene with her coworker at the gym that seemed to only be there to establish this! Oh yeah; she also beats the shit out of everyone... that's good too. Michiko Nishiwaki has a great role as well as a very suave, ass kicking drug smuggler with dope ass…

• Review by Invincible Asia ★★★★½

  The Outlaw Brothers is a fantastic Hong Kong action thriller directed and choreographed by and also starring Frankie Chan leading a fantastic cast.

  Frankie and Siu Chung Mok star as James and Bond, a duo of car thieves. Not in the service of her majesty.
  Yukari Ôshima plays the original hard-boiled, badass, no bullshit attitude cop named Tequila and that a whooping two years before Chow Yun-Fat did the same in John Woo’s Hard Boiled. (Both movies would make for a sweet double feature with the first focussing on Martial Arts and the second one on gunfights by the way). She's on the trail of the car thieves but more dangerous criminals are just around the corner.

  Frankie's James inevitably…