Cynthia Rothrock was the best Martial Arts female movie star and yet she almost never gets any credit

I don't buy into the excuse that she was a bad actress because the majority isn't good either. I mean, Jean Claude Van Damme was hardly good. And I don't think Jet Li was great either. But they are given credit for their fight scenes.

Cynthia Rothrock had some of the best fight choreography I've ever seen from a woman in the genre. Just watch her 80s Martial arts movies she made in Hong Kong. She was going toe to toe with Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung and slaying.

When she crossed over to America, it's when she did a lot of shitty movies like the China O'Brien movies. Clearly, dubbing helped her a lot in the 80s. But she was a formidable female fighter.

And she was the real deal since she started out as a fighter. Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi were dancers who crossed over into fight choreography.

Submitted March 31, 2023 at 04:44AM by Lili_Danube https://ift.tt/YryqD1c