Invisible Target
Welcome back! Hong Kong action thrillers.
After a long absence, Invisible Target marked the come back of the oh-so-nice action thrillers was starred the younger Simon Yam, and so many others.
There is no arty farty cinematography, no complicated drama, just plain story of good guys (police) versus bad guys.
Of course being a good old HK action thriller, the police chief would turn out to be the bad guy and there would be a few melodramatic moments.
But all these don’t matter, because we get what we wanted" explosions, roof-top chase, breaking of glass, one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one combat with body being hurled uncontrollably towards a solid wall/glass wall/table/cabinets/railing/stairs after being kick/punched/walloped by the opponents.
And we are talking about Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue and Joycee Chan here.
I admire them for their stunts in the film.
We see an exciting chase through the roof tops of the cityscape with the actors leaping from buildings. One scene ended with Nicholas Tse being kicked mid-air in his leap and he fell through the branches of a tree to the street below.
Jaycee too Chan had his share of kicks and he has to fight in a sea of fire. Shawn Yue who looked older with an almost botak crew cut too gave cool portrayal of a police officer with credible kungfu skills.
These few young actors demonstrated their ability to take over such roles in this genre.
Thank goodness Aaron Kwok was only a fleeting reference with a photo in the film or we would have to endure his tears for justification of the best actor for deliverance.
Yeah, I still have not got over that one.
After a long absence, Invisible Target marked the come back of the oh-so-nice action thrillers was starred the younger Simon Yam, and so many others.
There is no arty farty cinematography, no complicated drama, just plain story of good guys (police) versus bad guys.
Of course being a good old HK action thriller, the police chief would turn out to be the bad guy and there would be a few melodramatic moments.
But all these don’t matter, because we get what we wanted" explosions, roof-top chase, breaking of glass, one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-one combat with body being hurled uncontrollably towards a solid wall/glass wall/table/cabinets/railing/stairs after being kick/punched/walloped by the opponents.
And we are talking about Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue and Joycee Chan here.
I admire them for their stunts in the film.
We see an exciting chase through the roof tops of the cityscape with the actors leaping from buildings. One scene ended with Nicholas Tse being kicked mid-air in his leap and he fell through the branches of a tree to the street below.
Jaycee too Chan had his share of kicks and he has to fight in a sea of fire. Shawn Yue who looked older with an almost botak crew cut too gave cool portrayal of a police officer with credible kungfu skills.
These few young actors demonstrated their ability to take over such roles in this genre.
Thank goodness Aaron Kwok was only a fleeting reference with a photo in the film or we would have to endure his tears for justification of the best actor for deliverance.
Yeah, I still have not got over that one.