Tetrady
not as good as all the hype
Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Taraparain
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
lemon_magic
What does it mean to say that the acting in "Honor and Glory" is really, really bad? Well, it's bad not in a "Manos: Hands Of Fate" or "Wild,Wild World of Batwoman" way, and not in an "Ed Wood movie" way...but in a "not even as good as one of the better Chuck Norris movies" way. No one screws up their lines, there is no real incompetence on display in the camera-work or the costuming, and the cast is attractive and photogenic...but the screenplay seems to be written on the level of a Power Rangers movie. And the acting goes there too, which would be OK if they were playing it for laughs...but the movie plays things straight, so the humor is unintentional. For instance, in the introductory scene that introduces the "reporter" half of the team, a Senator's daughter - SENATORS DAUGHTER, mind you - PULLS A KNIFE on the reporter in the presence of her camera crew, and the reporter kick-boxes her into submission. And then the reporter and her crew waltz off, and NO ONE remarks on it for the rest of the movie - no filed charges with the police, no scandal, nothing. That's the kind of movie this is. Lacking any real heft or humanity or consequence, it fills 90 plus minutes with kick-boxing and witless dialog and silly plot devices until things wind up. The end.On the plus side: It's cheerful, things keep moving, and Rothrock has just a little bit of something that translates well to the camera - which is probably why someone thought they could have her carry a movie.They were wrong, but not disastrously so. It's also a Godfrey Ho/Hall vehicle, but without the part where he shoe horns completely related ninja footage into a 3rd rate action movie and them tries to pretend the ninja stuff relates to the rest of the movie via awkward linking dialog scenes. So that's a relief.You can give this one a miss, but it won't hurt you to watch it the way some of Ho's stuff hurts you.
Leofwine_draca
HONOUR AND GLORY is a feather in the cap of Hong Kong director Godfrey Ho, the man best known for his cut and paste ninja movies of the 1980s. Before and after those films, however, he had quite a career making low budget action features, and those of the early '90s have aged quite well. These are classic examples of so-bad-it's-good cinema, with elaborately staged fight scenes and plenty of jaw-dropping overacting.This film's no exception. Ho shot the film in America with an American cast and the plot is simplistic stuff about various characters teaming up to fight back against a crime overlord. Headlining the cast is Cynthia Rothrock, who doesn't get too much screen time but is more than adequate when she does show up. The little-known Donna Jason plays Rothrock's sister, a roving reporter who also knows a thing or two about martial arts.The best thing about this film is the human he-man John Miller as the villain of the piece. He goes way over the top in the acting stakes and is completely hilarious as a result. You may or may not remember him as Rothrock's cop partner in the even funnier UNDEFEATABLE. Miller is surrounded by bodyguards and spends the whole film beating on people. The fights are slow and quite awkward but like the cinema of Amir Shervan, HONOUR AND GLORY is too much of a treat for bad film lovers to dislike.
HaemovoreRex
Sharing many of the same cast from Ho's later crap classic, Undefeatable (although sadly, Don Niam is nowhere to be seen here), this carefree kick-about is similarly stupid and entertaining stuff from glorious start to finish.The plot concerns two sisters, one a feisty FBI agent (played by perennial high kicking sweetheart Cynthia Rothrock) and her intrepid news reporter sister (played by Donna Jason) who by a bit of an unlikely coincidence involving their father, a CIA operative(!), both end up trying to bring down a particularly nasty business tycoon by the name of Jason Slade (played hilariously OTT by John Miller) who is attempting to procure a nuclear trigger of some description.Also along for the ride are Robin Shou, playing a Hong Kong detective and Chuck Jeffreys who looks and sounds uncannily like Eddie Murphy(!!!) and who similarly ends up embroiled in the sinister affair.What transpires is typically riotous fun, including a plethora of fights, over acting aplenty by all involved and some thankfully brief, but hilariously cringe inducing attempts at melodrama including the obligatory reconciliation between one sister and her father.Other highlights on offer include one side splitting scene in which Rothrock's sis, high kicks a coke can into an irate woman's head(!), the main testosterone oozing villain taking time to flex up his muscles after wiping out an opponent(!!) and a cool, multiple fight finale which subsequently ends up with all four of our hero's required to tackle the movies nemesis.Well worth a watch!
gridoon
Look at the cast we have here! Cynthia Rothrock, Chuck Jeffreys, Robin Shou, John Miller: all of them real-life martial artists. And then there is Donna Jason, who has probably had some martial arts training, and even though she's not at the level of the others, she gets extra points for hotness (great smile!). In theory, "Honor and Glory" should have been a non-stop fighting fest, but it didn't quite work out that way. The film devotes too much time to its plot, which is scattered all over the place and never seems to really get started, and the actual fight scenes are only average in quality - not bad, but definitely not top-grade either. The film does have its moments (including Cynthia's scorpion kick and Donna's workout routine), but with this cast, we should be excused for expecting more. (**)
