Comments on: REVIEW: ‘The Rebel’ (2007)

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:42:19 +0000

Pointing out something wrong does not imply anyone is jealous. If someone robs a bank and we say that's wrong, we are not in any way jealous of the robber. You get praised for doing something good and criticized for acting indecently. Suck it up and take the good and bad! Additionally, we have to teach values to younger generations. Taking someone else husband, cheating on your wife, and neglecting your children are disgraceful acts.

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:31:49 +0000

Cathy Lynn (VT) is a beautiful and independent woman!!

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:29:30 +0000

Because Cathy Lynn (Johnny Nguyen's wife) stated in an interview that Ngo Thanh Van was the third person. She had clear evidence. Cathy Lynn taught and helped develop Ngo Thanh Van (Veronica) Ngo's martial arts in The Rebel. She did it for the movie production and her husband's future success, but he ended up divorcing her and neglecting their children.

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:25:41 +0000

Totally agree!!

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:23:41 +0000

Yep, Cathy Lynn (Johnny Nguyen's wife) stated in an interview that she taught and helped develop Ngo Thanh Van (Veronica) Ngo's martial arts. Cathy did it for the movie production and her husband's future success, but he ended up divorcing her and neglecting their children.

By: Tiff

Tiff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:13:58 +0000

Ngo Thanh Van is a homewrecker. Johnny Nguyen is a no good husband and father.

By: kas

kas — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:52:26 +0000

i have to say, i don’t know much about the drama between the two…but i have to say that this is a kicka$$ movie. great martial arts movie, i’ll give it props for that.
storyline somewhat typical, but again, martial arts movie, so that can be forgiven.
what i don’t understand though is how is it that chinese dubbing can be so much better than the straight up viet dialogue? i thought that was rather ridiculous and kinda funny. i mean, hong kong drama dubbed in viet is wonderful, i totally understand it, and everything said is great. for this movie, however, i had to read the freaking english subtitles. i mean, the subtitles seem to make more sense than the original viet scripted dialogue.
other than that, kicka$$ martial arts movie

By: foxstross

foxstross — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:06:33 +0000

why are these people so jealous of NTV and JTN instead of being proud of them????………please sit down and think about yourself before criticize other people…

By: Vicky Vannuys

Vicky Vannuys — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:24:52 +0000

Upon viewing Charlie Nguyen’s The Rebel (Dong Mau Anh Hung), I hope the Vietnamese action flick, unlike Vietnamese pop music, won’t be a Chinese-infected entertainment. As soon as the daughter of a secret anti-French leader Vo Thanh Thuy (Ngo Thanh Van) was captured and escaped with the help of Le Van Cuong (Johnny Nguyen) whose mission was to use Thuy to get to her father, Yimou Zhang’s House of the Flying Daggers rings the bell. I am not suggesting that the story was copied; I am just disappointing with lack of originality.

The Rebel relied too much on the fighting scenes to carry the pace. The chorography became repetitive after a few fights. Try to count how many spin kicks Johnny Nguyen had used. Ngo Thanh Van took plenty of beating and slapping. Acting wise, Dustin Nguyen stole the show as a badass villain. He looked tough, heartless, and had the most charisma out the main cast.

The main issue of The Rebel is the dialogue. Sometimes I have to read the English subtitles to understand what Johnny Nguyen, Dustin Nguyen and Nguyen Thang (damn, too many Nguyen) speak in Vietnamese. How ironic is that? The funniest term is used when Nguyen Thang calls Ngo Thanh Van “cho cai” (”bitch”). I have heard a much worst degrading term for female in Vietnamese, but never heard “cho cai” being used in that context.

“What makes you proud of this film?” In an interview, Johnny Nguyen’s answer was: “The fact that Vietnamese could make action film too. We have our own style of fighting.” Sure, bro. But the problem is we’re still short on invention.

By: Bananna Bread

Bananna Bread — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:04:05 +0000

Ngo Thanh Van is also trying spam any websites that speaking negative about her. She dreseses and acts like Hitler Nazi in that Van Son Video 38 (They Don’t Care About Us). So please becareful! She thinks she own the whole world.