Tiger Claws (1991)

Regista:

Kelly Makin

Sceneggiatore:

J. Stephen Maunder (writer)

Genere:

Action

Slogan:

The city is being torn apart and only two cops can stop the frenzy

Plot:

The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Serial Killer | Cop | First Of Series | Part Of Trilogy

Recensioni degli utenti:

A dangerous death dealer stalks the city of New York killing off Martial Arts Instructors

Cast

Cynthia Rothrock	...	Linda Masterson
Nick Dibley	...	Psycho-Rapist
Fern Figueiredo	...	Linda's Partner
Jack Vorvis	...	Street Drummer
Jalal Merhi	...	Tarek Richards
Lisa-Marie Thomas	...	Police Clerk
Franz Fridal	...	Dr. Mathews
Robert Nolan	...	Roberts
Kedar Brown	...	Vince
Ken Quinn	...	Drug Go-Between
Ernie Cohen	...	Drug Kingpin
Frank Bobiwash	...	Bodyguard
Eric Bryson	...	Stunts
Bill Pickels	...	Bill Pickells
Patti	...	Bill's Assistant
Kelly Makin	...	T.V. Director
Glenn Pineau	...	T.V. Cameraman
Kate Healy	...	P.A. #1
Sandra Smolski	...	P.A. #2
Yaz Lachporia	...	Bill's Video Victim
Ashvani Sinclair	...	T.V. Reporter
Mark Sharkey	...	Henderson
John Webster	...	Reeves
David Stevenson	...	Sifu Harris
Howard Green	...	Harris Student #1
Sean B. James	...	Harris Student #2
Frank Robinson	...	Officer King
Bolo Yeung	...	Chong
Dunn Wah	...	Chinatown Sifu
Rick Sue	...	'Drunken Style' Student
James Won	...	Gang Leader
George 'Fitlow' Chan	...	Gang Member (as George Chan)
Kerry Wong	...	Gang Member
William Cheung	...	Gang Member
Raymond Lien	...	Gang Member
Phillip Wong	...	Gang Member
John Atkinson	...	John
Oscar Landry	...	Referee
Michael Bernardo	...	John's Opponent (as Mike Bernardo)
Mo Chow	...	Sifu Chow
Ho Chow	...	James
Robert Stamenov	...	Photographer
Chris Lokstein	...	Ambulance Driver
Gary Wong	...	Ming
Mike Chow	...	Student Challenger #1
Steve Chong	...	Student Challenger #2
Tig Fong	...	Student
Billy Kim	...	Student
Peter Lam	...	Student
Eugene Lui	...	Student
Ka-Yout Ma	...	Student
Donald Wong	...	Student
Genine Chambers	...	Stripper
David Chant	...	Mr. Sing
Kevin Kirchen	...	Sing's Bodyguard #1
Elaine Chong	...	Waitress #2
Mike Cho	...	Sing's Bodyguard #2
Dale Hidebound	...	Newspaper Reporter
Michael Close	...	Security Guard
Perry Campbell	...	Police Arresting Chong
Jake Makin	...	Police Arresting Chong

Regia di
Kelly Makin

Scritto da (in ordine alfabetico)
J. Stephen Maunder		writer

Prodotto da
Norm Eizicovics	....	associate producer
Dale Hildebrand	....	associate producer
Frank K. Isaac	....	executive producer
Ron Ishiak	....	associate producer
J. Stephen Maunder	....	associate producer
Jalal Merhi	....	executive producer
Curtis Petersen	....	co-producer (as Curtis Peterson)

Musiche originali di
Varouje

Fotografia di
Curtis Petersen
Mark Willis

Montaggio di
Reid Dennison

Architetto-scenografo
Michael Close

Costumi di
Kate Healey

Sonoro
Don White	....	sound re-recording mixer

Controfigure
Steve Lucescu	....	fight choreographer
Steve Lucescu	....	stunt coordinator
Peter Szkoda	....	stunt performer (1992)

Editorial Department
Ricardo Olivero	....	color timer

Music Department
David Horner	....	score mixer

Altro personale
Roseanna O. Samantha Istance	....	assistant to producer
Steve Lucescu	....	fight choreographer

Production Companies

• Film One Productions
• Shapiro-Glickenhaus Home Video

Distributors

• Cineplex-Odeon Films (Canada)
• Cineplex-Odeon Home Video (Canada) (VHS)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (USA) (VHS)
• MCA/Universal Home Video (USA) (laserdisc)

Alias:

Copgirl - Artigli di tigre (Italy) [it]

Durata:

92 min

Nazionalità:

Canada | USA

Lingua:

Inglese

Colore:

Colore

Divieti:

Germany:16 | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | UK:15

Luoghi delle riprese:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Film One Productions

Errori:

Continuity: The high-heeled shoes of Detective Masterson disappear and reappear before and after the first fight scene.

Movie Connections:

Seguito da Tiger Claws II (1997)

A dangerous death dealer stalks the city of New York killing off Martial Arts Instructors

Bolo Yeung plays a 'death dealer' - a man who can kill with his bare hands or Tiger Claw Style. In the film Bolo kills off New York's best martial arts instructors and use their belts, trophies, swords as an offering to the gods to prove to himself he is the best there is.

Throughout the film we see hints of Bolo killing off the martial artists, whilst Cynitha Rothrock and Jahal Merhi (both who play New York Cops) try and track him down very, very slowly. The film, in fact, moves so slowly its hard not to fall asleep. The plot although a strong one, fails to get off the ground - we never actually see Bolo killing off the martial artists giving the impression that the fighting was going to build up into an all out action-packed ending - but it never did - instead we get a mixed film that couldn't decide whether it was a Martial Arts film or an Action film - in the end it turns out to be a lame cop film with a bit of martial arts - most of which comes from Bolo.

Jahal, who is on supension seems to forget that he's wearing tight jeans and seems to be able to high kick on demand whilst Cynitha hardly does anything but sit in a car or fight badly.

The fighting sequences themselves are extremely poor - however the training sequences were very good.

Jahal, who infiltrates the Tiger Claw training camp trains with other Tiger Claw students, and finally meets Bolo in a strip joint. There his cover is blown and he, and Cynitha chase Bolo to a conveniently placed Harbour - where they play hide and seek with Bolo.

When the final fight sequences appear, Bolo seems to forget he's a psychotic killer and just stands around and waits to be kicked by Jahal - when Bolo does strike he signals to Jahal to get up instead of finishing him.

I felt this film with its strong plot could have been and should have been so much better. The fight chero-gerophy should have complemented Bolo's extenstive martial arts skills and we should have at understood why Jahal (who only trained for ten minutes) could have defeated a psycho-killer in three.

Out of ten, I'd give this three for effort.