Step-Father_of_Lies t1_jeeif66 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:06 PM

Reply to comment by system37 in Cynthia Rothrock was the best Martial Arts female movie star and yet she almost never gets any credit by Lili_Danube

Yeah I'm sorry but I get really annoyed when people talk about Cynthia Rothrock as some kind of big action star in any way. If you want to talk about how good she is at fight scenes, sure, I'll entertain that argument. But the bottom line is she didn't even have a small role in a single big picture at any point in her career so I kinda have to laugh when people bring her up as one of the early female action stars.

WaterlooMall t1_jeenr8i wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:47 PM

I think the closest thing to a big picture she was in was SHANGHAI EXPRESS (also called MILLIONAIRE'S EXPRESS) with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, but she was a basically an extra in it.

The problem is she isn't a good actress at all, she's just a really good martial artist.

VemberK t1_jeejva8 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:17 PM

But she was one of the early female action stars...

Step-Father_of_Lies t1_jeenoj0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:46 PM

... in Hong Kong martial arts movies. Not in American action films.