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  • Plotwise, the films are on opposite sides of the chop-socky spectrum.

    Kung Fu Night! Double Feature: The Swordsman II and Chocolate 2009

  • As far as chop-socky flicks go, The Swordsman II has an unusually well-constructed and intelligible plot.

    Kung Fu Night! Double Feature: The Swordsman II and Chocolate 2009

  • Plotwise, the films are on opposite sides of the chop-socky spectrum.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • As far as chop-socky flicks go, The Swordsman II has an unusually well-constructed and intelligible plot.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • It's only at the bottom of the bottom of the barrel one spies hidden treasures like Star Trek Versus Batman and the impossible-to-find Brazilian chop-socky opus Bruce Lee Versus Gay Power!

    Cowboys & Aliens: the Versus movie without Versus in its name 2011

  • Hanna's not really like that: the story of a purpose-raised teenage assassin Saoirse Ronan, it's a chop-socky Brothers Grimm tale with big, bad wolves and wicked stepmothers – Pathfinder meets The Company Of Wolves under the sign of The Bourne Identity, all of it with the occasionally risible feel of a good-bad Luc Besson flick.

    Joe Wright: wrong for Hollywood? 2011

  • Unidentified Man #2: Yeah, the chop-socky that's the film on which Brandon Lee died.

    'Completely Hollywood': 197 Films, Abridged 2010

  • But in Asia, with numerous state-subsidized film industries and national fighting styles, and nearly a century of collective chop-socky film history, martial arts movies are more than just a genre, they're a medium through which other genres can be filtered.

    Alex Remington: Ong-Bak 2: The Best Martial Arts Movie You Never Saw 2009

  • Rex Stout: It was shortly after falling under the spell of Holmes that I discovered Nero Wolfe in the town library where my Mom took me every Saturday (or at least the ones when I didn't ride my bike to the Sunrise Theater to watch Godzilla flicks and chop-socky movies).

    Gateway Drugs 2007

  • Rex Stout: It was shortly after falling under the spell of Holmes that I discovered Nero Wolfe in the town library where my Mom took me every Saturday (or at least the ones when I didn't ride my bike to the Sunrise Theater to watch Godzilla flicks and chop-socky movies).

    November 2007 2007

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