Movie: I've enjoyed Kung Fu movies and television shows since the original Kung Fu television series, starring David Carradine, aired in the early 1970's. Over the years, I've resigned myself to accept that most of the very best titles in the genre look rather weak in terms of technical quality, a fact not lost on most fans. As a group, we've come to expect the worst and always hope for something better; a release that looked good but maintained the quality of the fighting styles that draw us in to watch the movies in the first place. Keeping this in mind, many companies have tried to cash in on us with releases like Invincible, which was long on look and low on content, or, when we were lucky, Princess Blade, which had a bit of interesting fighting going on, but most of the time...Read the entire review

The Feature:
It's amazing, but in almost every movie that involves an "insane asylum" portrays them in such an over-the-top kind of way. Whereas "12 Monkeys" did it with humor in mind, "Crazy as Hell" does it in a manner where all the crazies run around screaming "duh, duh, duh, duh" while twitching, and playing with ridiculous toys.

Now that I have gotten that out of the way, Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach) is an acclaimed therapist who agrees to be filmed for two weeks, as he takes on a new assignment at a mental institution, to take as many of the mental patients off their medication while preserving their last shred of sanity. But, Dr. Adams is not without his personal demons, as his wife and daughter died under tragic circumstances.

One day, "The Man" (Eriq La Salle) shows up claiming to be Satan. At first, this seems like an impossible reach, but over the course of the movie, "The...Read the entire review