With the mainland China premiere today for the action comedy Badges of Fury with Jet Li and Wen Zhang as the cop duos, Enlight Pictures has release the final "All-star" trailer that features an overview of the cast. There is also two behind-the-scenes videos on the fights scenes with Wen Zhang under the action direction of Corey Yuen and on the making of the comedy scenes. The all-star cast features Michelle Chen, Liu Shi Shi, Liu Yan, Collin Chou, Wu Jing, Stephen Fung, Leung Siu Lung, Raymond Lam, Kevin Cheng, Ma Yi Li, Huang Xiao Ming, Tong Da Wei, Alex Fong, Stephy Tang, Leung Ka Yan and more.When a spate of eerie murders erupts across Hong Kong, two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case....
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- 6/21/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Did you feel letdown with the martial arts taking a backseat to the goofy comedy in the last few trailers to the cop thriller Badges of Fury? Well, don't worry because an international trailer intended for the Singapore market (via Shaw Organisation/Scorpio East) has arrived and it showcases more of the fight choreography by action director Corey Yuen. With awesome onscreen fighters including the always amazing Jet Li, Wu Jing (Sha Po Lang) and Collin Chou (The Matrix Reloaded, Flashpoint), here's hoping they will deliver the goods. The cast also includes Wen Zhang, Michelle Chen, Liu Shi Shi, Liu Yan, Leung Siu Lung, Raymond Lam and Stephen Fung.When a spate of eerie murders erupts across Hong Kong, two troublemaking cops are assigned to the case. Young maverick...
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- 6/4/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Director: Stephen Fung. Review: Stan Glick. North American aficionados of comic kung fu will be able to satisfy their jones on Tuesday, January 22nd, when Stephen Fung’s Tai Chi Zero debuts on Blu-ray (upon which this review is based), DVD and digital. It’s a fanciful and lighthearted imagining about the founder of Yang style Tai Chi Ch’uan, Yang Luchan, here played by Jayden Yuan (a.k.a. Yuan Xiaochao, who reportedly took his English first name from Will Smith’s son Jayden, who co-starred with Jackie Chan in the remake of The Karate Kid). Luchan is also known as “The Freak” because he has a horn-like growth, known as “Three Blossoms on the Crown,” on his right forehead. When the bump is struck, he turns into a formidable fighter. Unfortunately this also depletes his ch’i (internal energy). Luchan’s birth and early youth play as a silent movie with intertitles.
- 1/21/2013
- 24framespersecond.net
Gallants
Stars: Teddy Robin, Wong You Nam, Jia Xiao Chen, Mc Jin, Li Hai Tao, Law Wing Cheong, Leung Siu Lung, Chan Koon Tai, Susan Shaw, Chan Wai Man, Li Ka, Turbo Law | Directed by Derek Kwok, Clement Cheng
When legendary kung fu master Law Sun (Teddy Robin) unexpectedly awakes from a 30-year coma he discovers that his once celebrated martial arts school has become a teahouse and is now under threat from a takeover bid by his former rival. Aided by his now middle-aged apprentices, Dragon (Chan Koon Tai) and Tiger (Leung Siu Lung), and an unlikely hero in the form of the nerdy estate agent tasked with progressing the takeover, Master Law sets about training a rag-tag band of fighters to compete in a forthcoming martial arts tournament. Winning the prize could safeguard all their futures, but anything less would mean a certain end for the both the...
Stars: Teddy Robin, Wong You Nam, Jia Xiao Chen, Mc Jin, Li Hai Tao, Law Wing Cheong, Leung Siu Lung, Chan Koon Tai, Susan Shaw, Chan Wai Man, Li Ka, Turbo Law | Directed by Derek Kwok, Clement Cheng
When legendary kung fu master Law Sun (Teddy Robin) unexpectedly awakes from a 30-year coma he discovers that his once celebrated martial arts school has become a teahouse and is now under threat from a takeover bid by his former rival. Aided by his now middle-aged apprentices, Dragon (Chan Koon Tai) and Tiger (Leung Siu Lung), and an unlikely hero in the form of the nerdy estate agent tasked with progressing the takeover, Master Law sets about training a rag-tag band of fighters to compete in a forthcoming martial arts tournament. Winning the prize could safeguard all their futures, but anything less would mean a certain end for the both the...
- 7/24/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Stop everything that you're doing and watch the proper trailer for upcoming old school kung fu flick Gallants.
An exhilarating homage to Hong Kong's action star of yesteryear and Hong Kong Cnema's action comedies, Gallanats sees two have-been masters Leung Siu-lung and Chen Kwun-tai holed up in a village restaurant, tending their master in a coma. Trouble arrives in the form of a gang of roughs - diplomats of ruthless evelopers drooling over their property. The master wakes up with a start, and kick starts the old boys into action for home and country. Director Derek Kwok has reinvented a great sub-genre with aplomb and an eye on new horizons.
You're day will seem better. The sun will be a little bit brighter. Old ladies will be kind to you on the streets. Life will be that much better after watching it. Trust us.
Gallants is playing at this...
An exhilarating homage to Hong Kong's action star of yesteryear and Hong Kong Cnema's action comedies, Gallanats sees two have-been masters Leung Siu-lung and Chen Kwun-tai holed up in a village restaurant, tending their master in a coma. Trouble arrives in the form of a gang of roughs - diplomats of ruthless evelopers drooling over their property. The master wakes up with a start, and kick starts the old boys into action for home and country. Director Derek Kwok has reinvented a great sub-genre with aplomb and an eye on new horizons.
You're day will seem better. The sun will be a little bit brighter. Old ladies will be kind to you on the streets. Life will be that much better after watching it. Trust us.
Gallants is playing at this...
- 5/5/2010
- Screen Anarchy
I’m a sucker for comedic hybrids. Action/comedies, horror/comedies, drama/comedies — if it’s funny, I’m on it like a bonnet. Directors Derek Kwok and Clement Cheng’s 2010 combo platter “Gallants” is marketed as a comedic martial arts flick, but judging from the teaser embedded below, it honestly doesn’t look that funny. I’m guessing that all will be revealed when an official theatrical trailer is released, which should be sometime soon. Until then, I suppose I’ll just have to take their word for it. Since the teaser reveals absolutely nothing, here’s a synopsis to fill in the holes: Two has-been martial arts masters, Leung Siu-lung and Chen Kwun-tai, are holed up in a village restaurant, tending to their master who is in a coma. Trouble arrives in the form of a gang of roughs – diplomats for the ruthless developers that are drooling over their property.
- 4/13/2010
- by Todd
- Beyond Hollywood
There's no school like the old school, they say. You would be hard pressed to find a Twitch writer who doesn't pine for those golden days of cinema to return to Hk and it looks like Derek Kwok and Clement Cheng share the same sentiments as we do. They've co-directed a throw back to those classic kungfu films called Gallants. The film premiered at Hkiff in March and is set to open in Hk in June.
An exhilarating homage to Hong Kong's action star of yesteryear and Hong Kong cinema's action comedies, Gallanats sees two have-been masters Leung Siu-lung and Chen Kwun-tai holed up in a village restaurant, tending their master in a coma. Trouble arrives in the form of a gang of roughs - diplomats of ruthless developers drooling over their property. The master wakes up with a start, and kick starts the old boys into action for home and country.
An exhilarating homage to Hong Kong's action star of yesteryear and Hong Kong cinema's action comedies, Gallanats sees two have-been masters Leung Siu-lung and Chen Kwun-tai holed up in a village restaurant, tending their master in a coma. Trouble arrives in the form of a gang of roughs - diplomats of ruthless developers drooling over their property. The master wakes up with a start, and kick starts the old boys into action for home and country.
- 4/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
"As for those Kung Fu-titled films, frankly I do not like them, whatever they are trying to tell, I feel like those veteran actors in the films were being disrespectfully used, they have the talents that should have been worthily made more use of. We pick this cast and make this film because we like and admire these actors..." - Out of all the romantic-themed local films screened at this year’s Hkiff, The Gallants certainly feels like a different breed. Working alongside first-time filmmaker Clement Cheng, director Derek Kwok, perhaps best known for his debut directorial work The Pye-Dog, dodges from his usual dark, edgy styled films that revolve around story-lines with child characters, to co-direct a film that is packed with the neat Kung Fu sequences that are a throwback to Hong Kong action cinema of the 70s & 80s. Aided by spot-on casting choices,...
- 4/9/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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