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	Black Mask - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black Mask was a 'pulp' magazine launched in 1920 by H.
		Black Mask later published the hugely influential Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade and the Continental Op, and other writers who came in his wake, such as Raymond Chandler and Erle Stanley Gardner.
		Black Mask reached a sales peak in the early 1930s, but then interest began to wane under increasing pressure from the comic book market, cheap paperback books, radio and the cinema.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Mask (239 words)

	Black Mask -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Black Mask was a (An inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper) 'pulp' magazine launched in 1920 by (United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)) H.
		Shaw, following up on a promising lead from one of the early issues, promptly turned Black Mask into an outlet for the growing school of naturalistic ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act) crime writers led by Carroll John Daly.
		Black Mask reached a sales peak in the early (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s, but then interest began to wane under increasing pressure from the (A magazine devoted to comic strips) comic book market, cheap paperback books, radio and the cinema.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/black_mask.htm (264 words)

	Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002)
		Black Mask 2: City of Masks is a wacky hodgepodge of a comic book film, mixing extreme wirework, lots of CG, blisteringly bad acting, and a plot device stolen from the eighties TV show "Manimal".
		When we last left Black Mask (Jet Li in the original), he had escaped the clutches of assassin group 701 and was setting off with pals Karen Mok and Lau Ching-Wan.
		After a nifty action sequence where Black Mask grapples with his foes on some moving cars, the film shifts to a wacky wrestling organization which employs genetically enhanced wrestlers as their main attraction.
	www.lovehkfilm.com /reviews/black_mask_2.htm (1015 words)

	Black Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Putting on a fl mask, Simon leaves his normal life behind to find out who is driving the members of Squad 701 to these bloody campaign, but facing his past brings back memories and foes he can hardly face.
		If “Black Mask” has one problem, it is the story, which somewhat takes the backseat to everything else in the movie.
		The presentation of “Black Mask” on this DVD is quite spectacular, which makes the lack of the original audio and music tracks even more painful.
	www.dvdreview.com /html/black_mask.shtml (1199 words)

	Black Mask review
		Black Mask is a Manga style action movie starring Jet Li and directed by Daniel Lee, which blends high production values and clever effects with thrilling martial arts and dark comedy.
		When he realises that Black Mask must be Tsui, he decides to use Mei Lin to get him to join them, or die.
		For Black Mask, he has the talents of one of the finest martial artists, Jet Li (who has won the Li Wushu World championship several times), and he doesn't waste him.
	www.endevil.com /blackmask.html (793 words)

	Black Mask
		Powers: Black Mask was armed with an automatic, but he preferred to have his False Face Society do his fighting for him.
		One of his favorite methods of murder was affixing a mask coated with poison to a helpless victim.
		Batman rescued Black Mask, but found that the image of the ebony mask was now burned into his face.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/hellUSA/Blackmask.html (453 words)

	Black Mask (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Black Mask, starring Jet Li, came to United States theaters in 1999, courtesy of Artisan, and features action choreographed by one of the masters of Hong Kong cinema, Yuen Woo Ping (The Tai Chi Master, Fist of Legend, The Matrix).
		Black Mask has a strong and engaging plot that serves its action well, which is sometimes rare in action movies.
		Black Mask is essentially a comic book martial arts movie in the sense that it combines excellent martial arts with a story and general feel that make it similar to a movie inspired by a comic book.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hong_kong_action/50470 (630 words)

	Stomp Tokyo Video Reviews - Black Mask
		In one, Black Mask and Kae-Lin duel in a maze of pipes that are high on top of a building.
		An another positive note, Black Mask also takes a bit of time for some character development, not only on the romantic side (Tracy accidentally stumbles on his secret life and becomes a simultaneous prisoner and sidekick), but between Simon and Rock as well.
		Black Mask is much more of a kung-fu flick than a superhero movie; its over-the-top spurts of blood and severed limbs aren't likely to score points with parents.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/b/black-mask.html (1127 words)

	Black-winged Kite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The slow hunting flight is like a harrier, but it will hover like a Kestrel.
		It has a white head with a fl "mask", and white underparts except for fl tips to its narrow falcon-like wings.
		Upperparts are blue-grey except for fl shoulder patches.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black-winged_Kite (179 words)

	black mask 2
		The City of Mask is overall the city of the carnival and the grotesque.
		It's obvious when, for example, Black Mask explains that wrestling (a metaphor for the super-hero world, see the baby face gallery) is a only game.
		Black Mask 2 misses the entertaining dimension, which was a true force in Tsui Hark's best films.
	www.ifrance.com /hkcinemagic/siteanglais/atsuihark/blackmask2.htm (1137 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Black Mask 2: City Of Masks
		I never saw the original Black Mask, so bear with me. Apparently Black Mask (originally played by Jet Li, now played by Andy On) is a super-enhanced hero that was produced via a biological experiment.
		In his second outing, Black Mask is still looking for the biological abnormality that has given him his super powers.
		And then there's Black Mask's love interest (Teresa Herrera), who is so afraid of men that she freezes up at their mere touch.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/blackmask2.shtml (834 words)

	Black Mask 2: City Of Masks
		This leaves Black Mask with three pressing dilemmas; stop this operation, remove the animal DNA from his system and try to resolve his original problem of experiencing no pain.
		This sorry fact has never been more apparent than in 'Black Mask 2' in which you often wonder whether it was even worth hiring actors at all as the majority of the kung fu is so clearly created by computer.
		'Black Mask 2' could be seen as Hark's interpretation of what appeals to a global audience or perhaps he just watched far too many episodes of 'Power Rangers' before production but whatever he had in mind it certainly fails to supply the goods.
	www.dragonsdenuk.com /reviews/black_mask_2.htm (829 words)

	Hard Boiled Fiction
		Black Mask had also published a large number of Erle Stanley Gardner short stories, including the often sophisticatedly plotted short stories collected in Dead Man's Letters.
		Black is his last name; he is not given any first name in the stories, just like the heroine of his novel Fast One (1932).
		Black Mask had been much more straight laced than this, at least in regards to male female relationships - the violence level allowed in pulps was another matter.
	members.aol.com /mg4273/hardboil.htm (11723 words)

	'Black Mask': Nonstop Action, Ridiculous Plot
		It seems that the Commander and his men are in league with the Colombian drug cartel in a deal intended to force the Chinese government to give the survivors an antidote to a blood component that will kill them all within a year.
		In its inane way, "Black Mask" packs enough action to have nourished a couple of years' worth of yesteryear's Saturday afternoon serials.
		"Black Mask" is rated R (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/051599mask-film-review.html (443 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Black Mask
		Anyway...eventually, Traci decides that Black mask would be a good man to settle down with and leech money from, and both she and Shek learn his real identity.
		Finally, Black Mask has his climactic showdown with the rebel Team 701 remnant commander, an Ozzy Osbourne look-alike (forgive me, but for a time the silly bastard's face was everywhere) with a few tricks up his sleeve.
		The biggest problem with "Black Mask" is that it does not sustain the same mood throughout; it cannot make up its mind on what kind of movie it wants to be.
	www.cityonfire.com /hkfilms/ab/blackmask.html (1564 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Black Mask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Black Mask is not bad due to some good action sequences but there a lot of aspects that weaken the film.
		Black Mask is filled with one too many cheesy explosions and laser blasts.
		In Black Mask, Li is aided too much with help of wires as it's clearly impossible for a person to jump around like that.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000065JRJ (1062 words)

	Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2002) FilmJudge DVD Review
		Black Mask 2 doesn't have the original star, Jet Li, but it does have some of North America's world famous "sports entertainers." We will call the wrestlers, since that is what they pretend to do.
		Each fighter has an opportunity to fight Black Mask, and it is all very methodical.
		Overall, Black Mask 2 is a mishmash of ideas, fight scenes and special effects with little to recommend it.
	www.filmjudge.ca /b/blackmask2.htm (745 words)

	Star Seeker Movies: "Black Mask 2: City of Masks" (2001)
		Black Mask, a martial arts superhero, must stop a group planning to set off a DNA bomb which will cause dangerous mutations in people.
		Andy On now stars as Black Mask as he works to prevent a group that intends to set off a DNA bomb that would turn the metro area's population into monstrous mutated beasts.
		Black Mask's love interest, played in the first film by Francoise Yip (Romeo Must Die, Rumble in the Bronx), does not make the new picture, apparently because Black Mask is now too busy fighting crime.
	www.starseeker.com /films/blackmas.htm (403 words)

	Black Mask (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yet his new and quiet life as a librarian is soon interrupted as he finds himself fighting the same group when they begin brutally killing off local drug lords and attempting to flmail the government by stealing classified criminal information.
		Caught between his friend, a cop who disapproves of the Black Mask's vigilantism, a love from his past with orders to kill and a new love that he must protect, Tsui struggles to stop the very forces that created him.
		Black Mask is a relatively weak modern day entry for Li who shined so brightly in Tsui Hark's historical Once Upon a Time in China series.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/blackmask.htm (1053 words)

	IGN: Black Mask Review
		Renamed and re-mastered, Black Mask (1999) tells the story of Squad 701; a secret, near superhuman, commando unit created by the Hong Kong government to eliminate warring drug lords.
		Black Mask comes out shooting and doesn?t stop until there?s no one left to shoot.
		Black Mask comes in a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix, a good choice for a film with this much action.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/037/037097p1.html (914 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Black Mask"
		The only good thing I can say about Black Mask is that it did have some well done fight scenes, but only some.
		In Black Mask it seemed like people were just flying all over the place, walking up walls and such without being bothered by pesky little things like gravity or inertia.
		BLACK MASK is easily the worst dubbed movie I've seen since RUMBLE IN THE BRONX.
	www.joblo.com /blackmask.htm (1279 words)

	TNMC Movies: Reviews: Black Mask
		The film was delayed ten minutes while they fixed the projector, the sound was murky, halfway through the movie the picture jumped so that all we could see was a big fl bar down the middle of the screen which lasted several minutes, and 30 seconds into the credits the film just stopped.
		Black Mask is about a Universal Soldier type project in Hong Kong.
		Michael, now called Simon, puts on a fl mask, hat and long coat and goes to help keep Rock from getting killed.
	www.tnmc.org /batcave/blackmask.html (437 words)

	California Newsreel - FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK
		Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask explores for the first time on film the pre-eminent theorist of the anti-colonial movements of this century.
		Fanon's two major works, Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, were pioneering studies of the psychological impact of racism on both colonized and colonizer.
		When he went to France to fight in the Resistance and train as a psychiatrist, his assimilationist illusions were shattered by the gaze of metropolitan racism.
	www.newsreel.org /films/frantzfa.htm (479 words)

	Black Mask
		Black Mask is your classic Hong Kong action film.
		Tsui became disillusioned with killing, and moved into hiding as a librarian, where he could pass as normal.
		But now, it seems some of the other people in the project are active, and killing people, so he takes on the identity of Black Mask to track them down.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/black_mask.html (386 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mask appeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Darth Vader's fl mask is finally lowered onto his scarred features.
		For some reason, a mask's pull escapes most men, which might explain why there is a dearth of masked women in movies.
		A fl mask and James Earl Jones' commanding voice transform the petulant Anakin (Hayden Christensen) into the virile Vader.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2005-06-12-mask-appeal_x.htm (982 words)

	The Black Mask
		This film is taken to another level, with the 701 Squad (and Jet Li) having their nerve cells removed from their body, making the feel now pain.
		Which is rather funny when The fl Mask reveals his identity to her.
		My final on this movie is frank, Black Mask stands out more than any other super hero known to me. He’s original, he has no super powers, he des what is right and kicks ass along the way Black Mask is a must have, no matter what version you purchases.
	www.freewebs.com /hongkongcinema/reviews/blackmask.html (602 words)

	Black Mask 2: City of Masks (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Black Mask 2: City of Masks strongly emphasizes a comic book feel with unreal CGI enhancements, rubber monster suits, and both a simple plot and dialogue.
		One of them, who becomes Black Mask (Andy On) has already gone AWOL and Liang (Scott Adkins) is sent to get him back.
		Black Mask has become a superhero who responds to a crisis involving a pro-wrestling match being disrupted by an iguana-man. The wrestlers themselves are test subjects of a genetic experiment performed by a mad scientist named Moloch (Tobin Bell) who has introduced animal and plant DNA into their bodies.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/blackmask2.htm (691 words)

	[KFCC] Black Mask 2 Review
		By the end of "Black Mask 2," you want to pick up a pitchfork and a torch and gather up a mob to storm the streets, burning everything in site and flipping every car over.
		You want to hang Black Mask himself in effigy are torch his body because a movie centered around his character has just gobbled up your precious time (and you'll never get it back again).
		For "Black Mask 2," I'll have to say that the last two fight sequences were pretty cool.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/action/blackmask2/blackmask2.html (768 words)

	Hyperion-Film - Die Film-Review-Seite - Black Mask 2 City of Masks - Hap Hak 2
		Hinter der schwarzen Maske verbirgt sich diesmal der Newcomer Andy On, der sich sichtlich schwer tut, in die Fußstapfen seines Vorgängers zu treten.
		War es bei Black Mask der in HK-Produktionen der 90er vorherrschende Stil mit viel Wires, minutenlagen Marital Arts einlagen und wenig CGI Tricks, so geht City of Masks eher den Weg, den HK seit Storm Raiders eingeschlagen hat, viel CGI, ausgefallene Optik und die Kämpe sind eher kurz gehalten.
		Nehmt euch in 8 vor der schwarzen Maske.
	www.hyperion-film.com /phpgate/html/article.php?sid=183 (1172 words)

	Black Mask Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sequel: This film is followed by Black Mask 2: City of Masks, starring Andy On.
		A year later, living in Hong Kong undercover as a librarian, he takes the codename "Black Mask" and teams up with a police detective to investigate the deaths of the city's drug dealers, which he thinks may be the doings of some of his old associate.
		Black Mask is, however, unusually disappointing for a film that has a noticeably high budget and is essentially an action vehicle for one of the most agile and capable action stars, Jet Li.
	upcomingmovies.com /blackmask.html (602 words)

	Black Mask
		So as not to spoil his secret identity, he dons a fl mask and lets his techno-genetic fighting abilities resurface.
		His old lover Kaia, or something, is also a genetically engineered killing machine, and this love/hate thing adds a hint of spice to the story, especially when she gets a look at the new leading lady, a woman so cute and adorable, that I could help but seeing her as an animated drawing.
		Black Mask will present nothing new to people used to the films of those three owners of Planet Hollywood (Stalone, Willis, Schawzy).
	www.bigempire.com /gooden/blackmask.html (481 words)

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