Best Of The Best 3: No Turning Back/ Best Of The Best 4: Without Warning

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Martial arts master Phillip Rhee delivers twice the punch with two lightning-fast explosive action hits, BEST OF THE BEST 3: NO TURNING BACK and BEST OF THE BEST: WITHOUT WARNING. BEST OF THE BEST 3: NO TURNING BACK: While visiting his sister, Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee -- BEST OF THE BEST 1 & 2) discovers that a band of ruthless thugs plan to shatter the peace of a small rural community. BEST OF THE BEST: WITHOUT WARNING: When a girl fleeing Russian mobsters plants a stolen computer disk on Tommy Lee, the martial arts expert finds himself unwittingly thrust into his most harrowing adventure ever.

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not the best of the 4 part series.......2007-06-20

BEST OF THE BEST 3
4 STARS - STILL GOING STRONG

Although Best of the Best 3 is far different than the first 2 films, and its only returning character is Tommy Lee (Philip Rhee), the movie does a great job with a good plot, characters, and lots of well-done action scenes. The movie deals on the issues of hatred in a small community, and fortunately isn't really ever cheesy. For a B-grade movie, this is definetly one of the finer jobs. Even the acting overall isn't bad.

As mentioned, the action is great. There are lots of martial art fights, gun fights, and explosions galore. Philip Rhee does excellent choreography making the fights look very real. The last fight between him and the main villain is about 3 minutes long and looks pretty good.

Best of the Best 3 turned out to be much better than I thought originally. The story and action is above par for a B-grade movie. If you are a fan of Philip Rhee or enjoyed the first 2 Best of the Best films, you will have no problem enjoying the 3rd movie as well.

BEST OF THE BEST 4
3 STARS - WORST OF THE SERIES

Best of the Best parts 1 & 2 were easily some of the best made B-martial arts movies ever created. Part 3 took it down a few notches, but still was excellent. Without Warning - the 4th and final entry in the series - is average at best, and comes up short in many ways compared to it predacessors.

Again, like in No Turning Back, Philip Rhee as "Tommy Lee" is the only returning charcater from the first Best of The Best films. Also, like in #3, there is no tournament or gambling fight action but a fairly life-like scenario taking place in the real world. The story is about a couple of guys led by Lukasz Slava (Tobin Bell from the "Saw" series) and his handy #2, Yurik Slava (Thure Riefenstein) who go in the counterfeit money making businees. With vital information on a disc that a girl takes for evidence, she slips it into Tommy's pocket as the bad guys come after her. Unaware at first, he soon realizes the hard way that the guys have discovered he has the disk and kidnaps his daughter eventually in order to get it back.

While the story is just average, it is told the same way too. I never found any aspects that really excited me. Although it was pleasant to see Tobin Bell play the boss, both he and his #2 never amazed me. As for action, I was expecting to see more, but it seems each movie in the series contains less and less. The only worthy scene was Tommy taking care of a gym full of guys. Its really the only scene where he gets to fully show off his martial arts skills. The final fight between him and Yurik was so dissapointing. It takes place on an airport runway at night, but contains very little martial arts and is about a 2-1/2 minute scene. When you factor in the other scenes that are occuring and being switched back and forth too during these 2-1/2 minutes, I bet the fight itself is less than a minute.

Combined on one disc, these 2 movies are still a bargain. Not the worst movies ever made, but its diffcult to find many films featuring Philip Rhee, and the Best of The Best series is what he is most famous for.

Not as good as the first Best of the Best, but not a total loss.......2007-03-19

BEST OF THE BEST 3: NO TURNING BACK- Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee) comes to visit his sister and finds that the town is being overrun with members of the Arian brotherhood. These Arian brothers certainly weren't expecting a Taekwondo expert to show up. Tommy and his sister's husband played by Christopher Mcdonald team up to stop the racism.

The action is decent and the story isn't too bad. I haven't seen part 2 yet, but this is not even close to being as good as part 1. The directing job is not bad and the cheesiness is at a bare minumum, but the movie just isn't that interesting. There is 1 very funny clown fight scene. The finale is pretty intense with some good vehicle stunts and a bunch of shootouts. The final fight is a bit above average for an American movie, but you probably won't be blown away it. 2.5/5

BEST OF THE BEST 4: WITHOUT WARNING- Tommy Lee gets gets a tape planted on him with a hidden disc in it that has information the bad guys don't want the police to see. Russian mobsters now look to get the tape back.

Not only does this have more action then part 3, the violence is cranked up about 100 notches. It's much darker, but there is a touching story with Tommy Lee trying to protect himself and just get home to his daughter. Not a great movie, but a great direct to TV kind of movie. 3/5

'Best of the Best 1' has one of the greatest endings I have ever seen. I cannot even try to describe it, but I liked how both parts 3 and 4 also have upbeat endings.

Both movies are full screen, but don't suffer from it. Picture quality is good and sound is fine.

best of the best 3 and 4.......2007-01-06

wow 2 great movies on one disk. they just dont make movies like these anymore!

Best of the Best 3 and 4.......2006-03-18

The whole series deals with the same main principle, honor. These men showed that they could over come obsticles and achieve their goals. Things are not always as we'd like for them to be, but with honor and perservarence, you can acheive much. Especially with friends, and family by your side.

Five for both .......2005-12-20

Phillip Rhee continues the BEST OF THE BEST legacy with the third film, NO TURNING BACK, and the fourth, WITHOU WARNING, and not only reprises his role of Tommy Lee in both movies, but also directs both as well. It goes without saying that a martial artist as talented as Phillip Rhee could direct these movies well too.

Review of BEST OF THE BEST 3: NO TURNING BACK

Korean-American martial arts expert/champion/instructor Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee) goes to visit his sister, Karen (Cristina Lawson) brother-in-law Jack Banning (Christopher McDonald), whose also sherrif, and nephew Justin (Kitao Sakurai) in Liberty, USA. He is appalled to discover his hometown has become a hive of racism. The Church of the Aryan Crusade, led by Donnie Hanson (Mark Rolston), seeks to do what the Nazi's and KKK have failed to, destroy all non-WASP's. They've already murdered the town's Baptist minister Reverend Phelps (Andra Ward), apparently disgusted at his sermons of a God who doesn't judge people by race or creed. It's up to Tommy, with a little help from Sherrif Jack and schoolteacher Margo Preston (Gina Gershon) to drive these neo-Nazi's out of Liberty once and for all!!!

Review of BEST OF THE BEST: WITHOUT WARNING

Martial arts insructor Tommy Lee lives in L.A. with his daughter Stephanie (Jessica Huang), now as a single father. He has recently began training the LAPD in his techniques of Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido. While in a local grocery store just trying to get a cake for Stephanie's birthday, Mickey (Jill Ritchie) comes in screaming, being pursued by Russian mafiosos after the disc she has containing evidence of their organizations counterfeit money crimes. The thugs kill Mickey, but Tommey kicks the stuffing out of them, and escapes unharmed, not knowing that Mickey has slipped the disc into his pocket. The Russian thugs blast into Tommy's house looking for the disc, but Tommy fights them off and drops Stephanie at the local church while he seeks help from the cops. All he encounters is a crooked cop who Tommy is forced to kill in self-defense. The L.A.P.D., led by grouchy Detective Gresko (Ernie Hudson), belieing Tommy to be a cop-killer are hot on his trail, as are the Russian mafiosos, putting Tommy in one hell of a pickle.

I'll start by declaring my one and only disappointment with both films, and that is that after Phillip faced off against massive former Mr. Universe Ralph Moeller in BEST OF THE BEST 2, he really has no single formidable opponent in either NO TURNING BACK or WITHOUT WARNING. Fights in both movies where Tommy faces off with only one opponent routinely become instantly achieved victories on his part, save for a thrilling knife fight with Donnie Hanson at the end of NO TURNING BACK. But this was probably to be expected anyway. As a result, Phillip routninely takes on two, three and more opponents in the majority of both film's battles. Of course, that's what martial arts guys do. Phillip Rhee certainly provess both his well known martial arts skills and directing ability in both NO TURNING BACK and WITHOUT WARNING. It's an absolute mystery to me why he has been doing these movies ever since.

And the end-credits sequence of WITHOUT WARNING, showing Tommy displaying a wide array of self-defense techniques on his students (with him flowing like water, just as Bruce himself insisted martial arts are about) is another gem of beautiful, slow-motion martial arts action.

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Good But Needs More Meat
"It was a mixed assortment of the mild and the defiant."
Rough, smart thriller, available at last!
Decent noir--half smart, half dumb
"And while the killer slept the machinery of the law slipped into gear."

Without Warning
Starring: Adam Williams , Meg Randall , Ed Binns , Harlan Warde , and John Maxwell (IV)
Director: Arnold Laven
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ASIN: B0009OL8IK
Release Date: 2005-08-30

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Splashing spotlights across tight blonde curls and the sharp edges of the murderous blades of a gardener's shears---Without Warning! Opening with pure noir murder, our love-killer gardener Carl Martin (Andy Williams, North by Northwest) leaves his latest fair-haired victim gaping at the ceiling in a motel room in a post-passion melee. But our killer is not a random psycho, He's a clean-cut kid with an unknown chip on his. shoulder and a pair of garden shears in his hands---and a murderous lust for big-busted blonde babes out for a quick night's thrill. Befriending a local garden shop owner's daughter, Carl boldly snares her in his lair. Scant clues keep detective Ed Binns (12 Angry Men), busy while Carl Martin keeps pruning the blondes. With a tip of the hat and a draw of the gun, the flatfoots keep our killer hustling until he's plucked his last daisy. Drawing on the classic inspirations of the period, Without Warning! is one of the final missing pieces in the shadowy world of American film noir.

Customer Reviews:

Good But Needs More Meat.......2006-07-26

This film is moderately enjoyable. The acting is decent and the story moves well and offers plenty of suspense. Very cool-looking, too, in that old timey, black and white movie way. The problem is that there is a gaping lack of character development. The main character is a murderer who likes to pick up pretty blondes and hack them to death with his gardening shears. Okay, but nowhere in the film is there anything offered to give the viewer any idea as to why this seemingly nice gardener is a killer. I'm not asking to be hit over the head with this information, but a clue would have been nice. It's hard to follow a character throughout a 90-minute film when you don't know anything about their background. Still, I made it through the film without ever feeling the urge to turn it off.

"It was a mixed assortment of the mild and the defiant.".......2006-06-01

Being as woefully uninformed as I am, I'd never even heard of the American noir feature Without Warning! (1952) until Dark Sky Films released it onto DVD, but supposedly it's a rather obscure film considered `lost', one that's apparently been found, and found good...in my own, humble opinion. Written by William Raynor (Target Earth, "McHale's Navy", "Get Smart"), and directed by Arnold Laven (The Monster That Challenged the World, "The Rifleman", "The Six Million Dollar Man"), the film stars Adam Williams (Vice Squad, The Proud and Profane, Fear Strikes Out), in his first, major film role. Also appearing is Meg Randall (Criss Cross, Ma and Pa Kettle), Ed Binns (12 Angry Men, North by Northwest), Harlan Warde (Donovan's Brain, A Cry in the Night), Byron Kane (The Big Heat, Gog), and Angela Stevens (Creature with the Atom Brain, Devil Goddess).

As the film opens we see a man, who we later learn is named Carl Martin (Williams) leaving a Hollywood motel room in the middle of the night in a bit of a rush, most likely due to the fact he just murdered a woman. The body is found, and the police, including Lt. Pete Hamilton (Binns), make the scene. Turns out this isn't Carl's first victim, as the police identify the odd wounds (inflicted by a gardening tool) as being similar of those in a previous unsolved murder. As the investigations plods forward, we see Carl, a gardener by trade, carrying on with his normal routine. The police have a few clues, but nothing really substantial, along with a theory about Carl's modus operandi...seems he likes his women blonde, married, unscrupulous, and slightly tipsy (hey, who doesn't?), and he tends to strike at certain time of the month. Time passes and Carl eventually hooks up with another good time girl, but this time he nearly gets nicked as two motorcycle policemen stumble upon the scene (Carl took his date to a secluded underpass). As Carl is swallowed up in the sea of anonymity a large city tends to offer, the police press forward, collecting more and more evidence, along with constructing a profile of the elusive killer with the aide of a police psychologist. The authorities go so far as to set a trap, knowing what kind of bait the killer prefers, but Carl manages to get away yet again. Oh, by the way, it's probably worth mentioning that the guy who runs the nursery where Carl buys his supplies from has a new employee named Jane (Randall), who, along with being a pretty young blonde, is also his daughter. Let's just say this does not go unnoticed by Carl (he lika, he lika a lot)...eventually enough clues pile up to lead the authorities to Carl's doorstep, but will they be in time to nab this fiend before he strikes again?

I enjoyed this film as I thought, overall, it was a fairly solid crime drama with a strong sense of direction (this was Lavin's first feature), and a number of good performances. There were some aspects of the story I found a little hinky, the main one being how the character of Carl, who seemed genuinely sloppy in terms of leaving evidence behind, would have these moments of clarity, destroying certain pieces of incriminating evidence. Case in point, after the opening sequence, Carl discovered part of his sport coat had been torn (a piece of the fabric was recovered at the crime scene). He decided to take the coat in and get it fixed, but decided against it at the last moment for fear the police might have found the piece left behind and eventually be able to link it back to Carl (which, in fact, is what the police were trying to do, so much so they issued a bulletin to various tailors in the area to be on the lookout for someone bringing in a coat for repair made of a certain material). At the last moment, just before giving the coat over to a tailor, Carl has second thoughts and ends up destroying the garment. Why would he all of the sudden worry so much about a piece of a sport jacket, especially since he'd left so much else behind, specifically his fingerprints? Ah well...the story is divided up into two parts, one being Carl, and the other being the investigation, the parts eventually coming together at the end. I did like the forensics stuff, as there was quite a lot of detail given out as far as the kind of evidence collected at crime scenes, and how it's examined. I did think it funny how the main scientist brewed his own coffee in a set-up in his lab, serving it up in beakers and such...this seems a dangerous practice, as one might accidentally grab a beaker of hydrochloric acid instead of a cup o' joe. Live and learn, I suppose...another aspect I thought odd was how accurate the police psychologist was in terms of describing Carl's motivation behind his actions...talk about being dead on...as I said, I thought the performances were solid overall, my favorite being Ed Binns, who played the lead detective on the case. Generally the criminal is more interesting in stories like these, but I found Binns' character charismatic and well put together. He was an obviously intelligent and generally easygoing type, one who is now struggling to solve a series of brutal and senseless murders. That's not to say Williams didn't come off well in his role. One element I really liked about his character was he never really took it over the top. He didn't seem overly intelligent, but he did have enough brains (and luck) to keep the authorities at bay for a while. The story does move along well, wasting little time on unnecessary elements, wrapping up in a nice, tight little climatic finish. While watching this film I couldn't help wonder about where Carl lived...he resided in house that had seen better days, up in the Hollywood hills, property which I'm sure now goes for an exceedingly premium price, given the view he had...something else worth mentioning...I thought the dialog good, nothing too fancy, but I thought it interesting the narrator should have some of the best lines, including this one, at the beginning, after the second victim is found...

Narrator: They located the victim's husband and brought him in to identify the body. He'd been working all night and hadn't even known his wife was on the loose.

On the loose? Did he normally keep her chained up in the yard? Perhaps he might have if he'd known she was out all night gallivanting around with strange men while he busted his ash working night jobs just to keep her in stockings and bon bons...

The picture quality, presented in fullscreen (1.33:1), on this Dark Sky Films DVD release looks very sharp, clean, and crisp. There are some flaws in the print, but nothing extensive or extreme. The audio comes through most excellent, sound very clear. As far as extras go, there's a photo gallery featuring about ten publicity shots and English subtitles. The one aspect I didn't care for about this release was the artwork used on the DVD cover...it's kind of ugly and a poor representation of the film (in my opinion), but it shouldn't keep you from seeing this feature, especially if you're a fan of film noir.

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Rough, smart thriller, available at last!.......2005-12-21

Deft combination of murder thriller and police procedural is presented via a pristine, shimmering b&w print highlighting solid work by the creepily appealing young character actor Adam Williams (where are you now, Adam?)as an unflamboyant but remorseless killer of blondes, and Meg Randall, as the focal female who eventually finds herself in dire straits. Nice turns, too, by the understated Ed Binns as the police detective assigned to bring the monster to heel, and by Angela Stevens, a pretty Columbia contract starlet (The Three Stooges, Creature with the Atom Brain, numerous westerns) who, in this UA release, steams the screen as a randy goodtime girl who comes to a bad end. Smartly produced and directed by the highly competent Levy-Gardner-Laven team (The Rifleman, The Monster that Challenged the World, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue). Shock moments, notably a wowser near the beginning of the picture, are apt to knock you back in your seat. The photo gallery is welcome; menu and DVD case designs are imaginative and appealing. And as other reviewers have noted, Without Warning also is a priceless visual and aural record of "lost" L.A., particularly Chavez Ravine. The whole bargain-priced package is a gem that can't be recommended too highly.

Decent noir--half smart, half dumb.......2005-10-29

This is not bad for a 1952 noir, but is not as substantial as other films of the same year--I'm particularly thinking of Narrow Margin with the great Marie Windsor, and especially of the similarly-themed film The Sniper, also about a serial killer.

A big part of the reason for the three stars rather than four or five is the acting and the script, both of which are, for the most part, straightforward and pedestrian with a few flashes here and there of smarts. But you do have the by then standard "stentorian voice" of a voiceover narrator intoning the details of how the cops follow up leads to catch the killers. You do have the lab guys, complete with glasses and their, you know, "quirky ways" that include drinking tea out of a beaker and subtly showing up the "dumb street cops" how smart they (the lab guys) are and how unsmart the cops are. And of course you do have the innocent female victim, in the form of the daughter of a semi-crusty older guy who loves his daughter, blah, blah.

On the other hand, you also have something that could make your eyes widen and your jaw drop, if just a little bit, and that is a bad girl who, in so many words, practically begs the killer to let her have it--not meaning murder, but sex. The scene in which the two of them are in her car next to each other is fraught with sexual tension and is way ahead of its time. Not only that, but the obvious equating of sex with death is so ripe in that scene that it says more than anything else in the film does about the killer and why he does what he does. This was a really great scene.

Ed Binns is on hand to give the film somewhat more polish; he plays one of the two cops after the killer, Carl Martin, who works as a gardener. Carl's thing is to bump off blondes who are young and good looking. And somehow either he finds the married one, or they find him. The fact that it's never made clear just how he winds up with married blondes points to the psychological undertones used in the story, and that's not at all a bad thing.

There are some scenes--or at least lines--here and there, that actually appear to look forward to more contemporary films and they are slightly startling in their modernity. So this is an unusual mixture of the pedestrian and the intelligent. It's definitely of its period and is not at all bad. It's an interesting noir that's at least worth seeing if not owning. If you're a noir fiend like me, you'll want it for your collection. In my estimation, it ranks along with B noirs like Blonde Ice and Quicksand as representative of their period but not in what could be called the "seminal noirs" which are films like Out of the Past, Murder My Sweet, Double Indemnity, and Black Angel.

Still, it's a solid decent effort.

"And while the killer slept the machinery of the law slipped into gear.".......2005-10-04

I'm happy that this little known noir gem is finally available on DVD, especially with such a crisp picture, but I wish they had thrown in some extras. Maybe a few trailers, an audio commentary would have been great.

Carl Martin is a mild mannered lawn care guy. He seems normal enough with a respectable job and a cozy house, but I knew something was wrong with him the second he started madly stabbing a woman in the back with a pair of 5 inch pruning shears.

Try as he might Carl ain't the smoothest killer the world has ever seen and the cops are on his trail thanks to some fibers he left at a crime scene and some dirt at another. But how many women will die before the cop's hard work pays off?

Despite the obvious low budget and a first time director WITHOUT WARNING! was entertaining from beginning to end. I'll definitely watch it again.

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Not quite in the absolutely horrible category, but pretty close .....
Very realistic future
It's the end of the world as we know it...
Back in time...
Melodramatic, and terrible. Don't bother.

Without Warning
Starring: Sander Vanocur , Jane Kaczmarek , Bree Walker Lampley , Dwier Brown , and Brian McNamara
Director: Robert Iscove
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ASIN: B00009V7S9
Release Date: 2003-07-08

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Not quite in the absolutely horrible category, but pretty close ............2007-06-12

I bought this movie because I was told that some people thought the events portrayed were as real as believed when War of the Worlds aired. My response to that statement would have to be 'oh, gimme a break!'

This film revolves around the news coverage of supposed asteroid strikes and evolves into possible alien contact. It's left rather fuzzy whether said contact was friendly or unfriendly but, in the end, it ends up not mattering in the least.

The "news coverage" was laughable. It makes me want to see all the depicted evicts happen for real and get covered by CNN. ;-P

The saving grace of this movie was its ending when we're led to believe that we've been asteroided out of existence. At least I *think* that was the general idea. So there, planet Earth, take that!

Want to snicker through the hour and a half or so of this mess? Go for it. It would be worth it if only to imagine such events really happening and how news coverage would really evolve. ;-)

Very realistic future.......2007-03-31

I found this movie unique & very intriguing really enjoyed it deb

It's the end of the world as we know it..........2007-02-20

This film used "The War of the Worlds" radiocast as a format. Sander Vanocur and Bree Walker played themselves doing a newscast of an series of events. Several other reporters played themselves as well. This film also featured a pre "Malcolm in the Middle" Jane Kaczmarek as an expert commentator and a pre "Q" (Star Trek) John de Lancie as a field reporter.

I remember that CBS ran notices that what we were seeing was not real at every commecial break. This film is fun and a little thought provoking: do we make sure we understand what we are responding to before we respond?

Now....can someone dig up "Special Bulletin" and put that out on DVD?

Back in time..........2007-01-12

I liked in So. Cal and recognized all of the reporters when this first aired Halloween night back in the 90's (?) I knew that it wasn't for real but got a great amount of joy distracting my mother from the commercials and disclaimers saying it wasn't real! LOL

I bought it because I thought it was just something neat to have. It's cheesy but hey back then a lot of people thought it was for real. Personally I liked it. If you remember Bree Walker and the old California reporters I think you would get a kick out of it.

Melodramatic, and terrible. Don't bother........2007-01-02

I wouldn't waste your time buying this. See if you can't borrow it from your local library if they loan DVDs or your local video store, if you're that interested. It easily put me to sleep inside of the first 30 minutes, and my best friend confirmed that impression after he'd managed to watch the whole movie. After I heard that, I didn't bother trying to rewatch it.

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Very disappointing

World War II - Attack without Warning
Starring: Chris D. Nebe
Director: World War 2-Attack Without Warning
Manufacturer: Monarex Hollywood
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ASIN: B00006JXWG
Release Date: 2002-03-26

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In probing the anatomy of war, consider the mind and remember that those minds, which fail to learn the lessons of history, are condemned to relive them! GERMANY and JAPAN formed an unholy alliance and by attacking without warning started World War II. What made them unleash the horrors of World War II on an unsuspecting world? What made them the most destructive force of the 20th Century? Striding to the stirring drumbeat through the mysterious demonic glow of Nazi torchlight processions, ADOLF HILTER, the total madman, saw himself as the mythical "White Knight", who saves the world. Uncover Hitler's art of deception and the lurid secrets of merciless mass media manipulaton during his bloody reign of terror. In our never ending desperate search for guidance and leadership, mankind welcomes a savior and too late realizes that we have nurtured Satan. Without warning in a rampage of destruction and atrocities beyond comprehension, Japan attacked Russia and China, followed by the infamous attack on PEARL HARBOR, that launched the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA into WORLD WAR II. The Japanese warrior code of Bushido says: "Do not survive to suffer the dishonor of capture! Surrender makes you subhuman. You will be annihilated!" When the unforgiving forces of revenge closed in on them, in true Samurai tradition, the Japanese High Command committed collective suicide. Vile degradation of humanity demonstrated the utter insanity of the Japanese military. An added special feature of this DVD is a collector's gallery of rare Hitler photos.

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Very disappointing.......2003-06-15

I was disappointed in this DVD. I expected it to detail the events leading up to WW11, and explain the reasons behind the start of the conflict. Instead, after watching it, I was left none the wiser.

There are two main parts to this DVD - one on Germany and the other on Japan. A bonus feature is a series of photographs of Hitler.

The story on Germany starts off well, but then falls away. We see Germany after her defeat in WW1 and the chaos that reigned. We then see Hitler's rise to power and his tightening grip on it. The takeovers in the Rhineland and the Sudetenland are glossed over - as is the Munich agreement giving Europe "peace". The non aggression pact with Stalin is only mentioned when we see the German and Soviet troops meeting in Poland. I expected more detail on these events as they were central to the start of the conflict.
The chronological order of events is also misleading - we see France signing the armistice, then in the next scene we witness the British withdrawal at Dunkirk.

The story on Japan was woeful. It is entirely on the war in China & Manchuria. It is made up of color movies made well after the war with some original archive black & white footage. The movie footage seems to come from Japanese, Chinese and Russian sources as in different scenes we see the Japanese as heroes fighting for their Emperor, then as evil child killers, to incompetent soldiers thrown back by the mighty red army. The storyline finishes in late 1939 then mentions the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 - what about what happened in the intervening years?

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PART 1: What made ADOLF HITLER the most destructive force of the 20th Century? Deeply troubled sexually, surrounded by quacks, obsessed with the occult and promises of longevity, was HITLER an insane drug addict? His Storm Troopers, the infamous SS, poses as a romantic elite. Their sadomasochistic rituals attract a lot of sickos living out their elaborate fantasies. Were they creating the Aryan superman by selective breeding? Striding to the stirring drum beat through the mysterious, demonic glow of Nazi torchlight processions, HITLER, the total madman sees himself as the mythical "White Knight", who saves the world. Big Business and bankers finance HITLER'S political career. Once in power, he exterminates many of his benefactors. Uncover HITLER'S art of deception and the lurid secrets of merciless mass media manipulation during HITLER'S bloody reign of terror. In our never-ending desperate search for guidance and leadership, mankind welcomes a savior and too late realizes that we have nurtured Satan. PART 2: The Japanese warrior code of Bushido says: "Do not survive to suffer the dishonor of capture! Surrender makes you subhuman! You will be annihilated!" Without warning, in a rampage of destruction and atrocities beyond comprehension, Japan attacks China & Russia, followed by the infamous attack on PEARL HARBOR, which launches the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA into World War II. Soldiers being beaten into unconsciousness by their officers, brutally reduced to zombie-like obedience, using bound prisoners for live bayonet practice, killing and dying on command, this vile degradation of humanity demonstrates the utter insanity of the Japanese military. When the unforgiving forces of revenge are closing in on them, the orgy of "comfort women" and "narco traffic" is abruptly terminated. In true Samurai tradition, the Japanese High Command is committing collective suicide. In probing the anatomy of war, consider the mind and remember that those minds which fail to learn the lessons of history, are condemned to relive them.

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