Flash Point/導火綫 is directed by Wilson Yip and stars Donnie Yen and Louis Koo.It’s supposedly a kind of prequel to 2005’s
SPL, with Donnie Yen reprising his role as Inspector Ma.
** It tells the story of a ruthless cop trying to bring down a drug ring and save t...Read more
Ronny Yu directed Fearless/霍元甲, and it was his return to Chinese film after spending time in Hollywood.
This was also Jet Li’s first ‘last’ martial arts movie.
Fearless/霍元甲 tells a fictionalized story based on the real-life cha...Read more
By 2001, Stephen Chow wanted to become famous outside of Asia, and so he consciously changed his comic style.
His earlier films relied heavily on verbal wordplay called mo lei tau, and the jokes are only funny in Cantonese, and if you’re from Hong Kong.
I don’t understand anywhere near enough Cantonese to get the jokes.
<...Read moreConspirators/同謀 is the third and final movie that began with 2007’s The Detective, starring Aaron Kwok as a Chinese detective from Thailand.
In
Conspirators/同謀, Aaron tr...Read more
T he Detective/C+侦探has a great opening scene featuring Aaron Kwok, Shing Fui On and… noodles.
Shing Fui On hires Aaron to help him find out who this woman is… who’s following him… and wants to kill him.
Aaron gets help from his childhood friend, played magnificently by Liu Kai Chi.
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