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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenros" data-source="post: 78368" data-attributes="member: 975">Dr. Midnight wrote: I believe one can damage the undead dog using that kick. That's not really the problem I'm having with it.I've seen it a lot too. Basically, Hong Kong cinema used the technique a lot in the eighties and nineties. So even by mid nineties it was getting way old over seas. So when I see it, even in HK movies, I roll my eyes. Many U.S. martial art films have used it too. Then HK Action blew up in the western cinema forum and now western directors are looking to add the same flavor. They stupidly think that all it takes is to copy moves rather than capture the creative process of choreography from HK. Its blatantly obvious. They also forget that 'cool looking' or not, a special move still needs motivation. (Although I can't really properly judge the motivation part in particular with RE because I haven't seen the entire fight sequence yet, but that critique applies more to the films I've already seen). That's one reason.Second reason is because that style of fighting simply doesn't fit into the 'atmosphere' of the Resident Evil genre. That compounds the silliness of the decision making behind doing that kick in the movie.</blockquote>