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The Black Cat from Watts..The Kung fu Cat from Hong Kong..Even chained together-Nobody can handle them!
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
Dynamite Brothers
1974 Directed by Al Adamson
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East Meet Watts, Stud Brown, Killing of a Chinese Bookie
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Larry Chin, played by Hong Kong badass Alan Tang, travels to California in search of his missing brother. Upon hopping off the boat, Larry, meets Stud Brown, a smooth as silk ex-con played by former NFL player Timothy Brown. At first, Larry and Stud are chained together like something straight outta The Defiant Ones or Fled. Soon, the chains are broken, and the action heats up, in this quasi-blaxploitation flick from Al Adamson, and featuring some of the best martial arts stuntmen to ever work in the business.
Alan Tang, is a badass motherfucker. His English might be very limited, but he has the look of an International Super Stud. Watching him fight was so much fun. A lot of…
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"Kung-fu is hot right now. For our next movie, let's get an Asian guy and a black guy who can do kung-fu."
"Got it. And then what?"
"I don't understand the question."
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You think this film is going to be about two prisoners on the run from the cops? Naw, they're just going to hang around LA for the entire running time. Al Adamson's films are literary hang-out novels. Forget momentum or plot, because at the drop of the hat you could find yourself checking in with corrupt cop Aldo Ray's (at his drunken best) home life for a dozen minutes.
A weird outlier in Adamson's filmography, THE DYNAMITE BROTHERS is notable for casting Alan Tang (a well-known Hong Kong star) in the lead alongside a gaggle of fresh-faced stuntmen that would go on to be giants in their field: Jackie Chan team member Mars, Philip Ko (Star of THE BOXER'S OMEN),…
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A lo-fi blaxploitation kung fu flick. Entertaining action. The usual Adamson charm. About on par with Black Samurai. Good fun.
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Languid Al Adamson blaxploitation/Bruceploitation combo that focuses more on running around cheap locations than it does martial arts. At least it gets bonus points for casting James Hong as the villain pre-Big Trouble in Little China.
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Score Based on Al Adamson’s Films. Full Score Breakdown Below
This is definitely my type of thing for sure. Al Adamson really going fully into the world of martial arts films. There are some really great fight scenes, for the really limited budget that this had. The story is pretty cool too, and it worked pretty well to lead this one to the next cool fight scene.
There is a lot here to like, including a really strange score that was a bit all over the place. It works though for the movie. As for my enjoyment of Al Adamson’s movies this is about as awesome as it gets. It keeps his trademark low budget style, while incorporating some cool…
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In my film Kill Bill, during The Bride’s final confrontation with Bill, she makes a reference to an imaginary list of impossible things that could never happen.
And she mistakenly puts, “(Bill) busting a cap in her crown right at the top of the list.”
Well on that same list of impossible things that could never happen, right above that,
would be grade Z filmmaker Al Adamson making a watchable movie. But due to the urging of my friend, Elvis Mitchell, I’ve just discovered for myself Adamson’s Hong Kong Kung Fu-Blaxploitation hybrid, The Dynamite Brothers. And low and behold it’s a damn good seventies shoestring grade Z little picture. And believe it or not, it contains some of the best… -
Al Adamson presents sleaze and cruelty so casually that I suspect he was probably a sadistic pervert in real life. His action scenes are rarely as good as they are in this, though the thing I got most excited about is that someone named their child Biff Yeager.
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Doesn't bring anything new to the blaxploitation-kung fu crossover genre, but it kept me entertained the whole way through and things get nasty towards the end. During one of the first fights, I was hoping the camera would calm down, either it did for the following ones or I got used to it. I liked the fight in the back of the truck, not for the fight itself, but because fighting in an open moving truck is pretty cool. Upper middle tier Adamson, I assume the people rating it real low never saw his lesser flicks.
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Despite this being one of the "better" Adamson movies it is definitely one of the least fun watches so far. The blaxploitation and kung-fu elements are fine but exceedingly rote. It's so standard that that cheap, by hook or by crook Adamson charm that litters the fiften plus titles before this feels absent. Not that this was some master class or anything. But I mean, good for Adamson. This apparently did enough business to top grosses in certain markets and out perform titles like Blazing Saddles, if only briefly, and warrant a re-release a few years later. But maybe not all improvement is for the better.
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Take equal parts of The Big Boss, Enter the Dragon, Foxy Brown, and Death Promise, throw them all in a blender, and let Al Adamson film whatever sludge comes pouring out. You'll get something pretty close to Dynamite Brothers.
This is one of the few Adamson films that I was aware of before I started my dive into his boxset, and with the exception of Satan's Sadists it was certainly my most anticipated watch. Several people have told me this is their favorite of Adamson's work, and it's easy to see why. I'm not sure if I'm willing to go quite that far myself, but it's definitely close.
There's definitely something about this film that feels a little more polished…