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Catman in Lethal Track
US Catman: Lethal Track
Hong Kong 1990
produced by Joseph Lai, Betty Chan (executive) for IFD Films & Arts
directed by Alton Chung (= Godfrey Ho)
starring Jonathan James (= Jonathan Isgar), Kenneth Goodman, Blue Moroney, Johanna Brownstein, Tas Lehoczky, Danny Lau, Sorapong Chatri, Sam Senyai, Roberta Cowin, Alicia Tarr, Tracey Sun, Howard Anderson, Martin Gorden, Glen Walpe
story by AAV Creative Unit, story development by Alton Chung (= Godfrey Ho), screenplay by Andrew Chan, music by Stephen Tsang, stunt coordinator: Simon Fong
Catman
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Ok, somewhere in Thailand, crooked army general Archer has taken fellow
army general Shin Ha captive to take over first the army, then Thailand.
But there are some resistance fighters, one of them a woman dressed as a
man, who put a stop to his shenanigans. Hong Kong: CIA man Sam (Jonathan
James) is scratched by a radioactive cat and thus graced with all
sorts of superpowers. So he becomes the superhero Catman, and together
with fellow CIA agent Gus, he soon fights the Holy Chiva Church and its
leader, Sean Chiva, because they ... I don't know, are evil I suppose. Of
course, Catman saves the day in the end, even if Gus has to die a hero's
death. The connection of the two stories? I'm not really sure, but at
one point it's mentioned that the Holy Chiva Church is delivering weapons
to Archer. Or was that the other way round? A typical
cut-and-paste mess of a movie: The film Catman in Lethal Track is
based on, a low budget Thai action flick, has absolutely nothing to do
with the superhero story, so the two plotlines feel oddly disconnected,
and the fact that the Thai film is rather crappy makes one wonder the
producers' judgement. As for the superhero part of the film: This one's
badly written and clichée filled, Catman's costume is a bit on the
ridiculous side, and Jonathan James, the guy who plays Catman, really
camps up his performance in an almost unbelievable way. In all, not the
gunniest of Godfrey Ho's cut-and-paste movies, but rather hilarious still.
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