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Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts. (Source: IMDb) Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Dec 4, 1980
  • Duration: 1 hr. 35 min.
  • Score: 7.3 (scored by 16 users)
  • Ranked: #60629
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 7.0

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With Tsui Hark's first two movies supposedly bombing at the box office, he decided to lay it all bare and go for broke with Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind, one of the angriest and seriously fucked-up coming-of-age teenage dramas you will ever see, one that never has a happy moment. An unforgettably disturbing piece, that's dark and nihilistic to the utmost extreme, with scenes that will undoubtedly make your skin crawl even if you are the most seasoned of gorehounds. The scenes of on-camera animal cruelty aren't even the worst parts which really tells you how fucked-up the movie truly is. There's a great use of music here, although most of has been stolen because I highly doubt Hark managed to get the rights to Oxygene, Jerry Goldsmith's score to the first Star Trek movie or Dawn of the Dead. Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind is one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences you could ever watch with seemingly no characters to like but with an abundance to think about, this is a movie that takes balls to view but even bigger ones to make.

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  • Movie: Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Release Date: Dec 4, 1980
  • Duration: 1 hr. 35 min.
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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  • Score: 7.3 (scored by 16 users)
  • Ranked: #60629
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Watchers: 39

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