If you're in Southern California, don't miss your chance to see Charlie Nguyen's kickass action film The Rebel on the big screen at two special promotional screening engagements this month, on October 3 in Santa Ana and October 23 in Alhambra. I've seen it twice on the big screen, and I can't recommend enough. It's one seriously badass movie.
Celebrated as the highest grossest Vietnamese film ever made, The Rebel stars Johnny Tri Nguyen, the greatest action star you've probably never heard of, and Vietnamese pop star/actress Ngo Thanh Van. Set in 1920s Vietnam, it's an action-packed tale of Vietnamese resistance forces rising up against long-standing French foreign control. Lots of asskicking is involved. That's all you really need to know.
I should mention that Dustin Nguyen also stars as the villain, in pretty much the coolest role I've ever seen him play... and there was a time when I honestly believed it didn't get much cooler than Dustin as Officer Harry T. Ioki on 21 Jump Street.
The Rebel will be presented on October 3, 7:00pm at the Bowers Museum's Norma Kershaw Auditorium in Santa Ana and October 23, 7:30pm at the Edwards Alhambra Renaissance 14 in Alhambra. Director Charlie Nguyen and lead actor Dustin Nguyen are slated to appear, and will participate in a Q & A session following each screening. For more information, go here.
For everybody else who can't make it to these screenings, you can now catch the movie on DVD. The 2-Disc Ultimate Edition DVD
just hit stores this week. Buy it, rent it, put it on your Netflix queue. I leave you with this quote from online movie magazine Film Threat, which describes The Rebel as "So badass it hurts...but it hurts so good."
