No pun intended - you have to take the movie, my rating, my review ... actually just everything with a grain of salt. You have to understand the insanity that the movie represents ... Yuen Biao is a force to be reckoned with. The movie stars with a bang ... multiple bangs. And it never really stops ... I mean there are some scenes where people are talking ... and you know do some research and police work ... but it is just a breather for the audience ... to prepare them, to give them a moment to relax, before the mayhem kicks back in.
There is no sense in trying to make ... sense of things! The movie does not care about things like logic ... I mean in the first ten minutes you get a shootout, that should have led to multiple arrests to say the least ... and a prosecutor going Dirty Harry on them instead ... not to mention explosions that would never happen in reality ... that work again! Reality combined with logic ... put those words aside, if you want to watch this movie and have a good time ... a grand time actually! Because this is or can be as much fun as any other movie! If you are in the mood for it.
Add Cynthia Rothrock to the mix ... who funnily enough gets Yuen Biao as a stunt double in a few scenes ... and the movie goes off the rails! Well there are more people and there are more deaths that one can count ... and depending on which version you watch - there are good and bad endings ... though one would argue if the good ending is actually that ... but does it really matter? You are here for the insane stunts ... you are here, because the action is so over the top ... you just have to see it to believe it.
Taking the law into your own hands ... an absolute no go ... unless you are starring in a HK action movie that is of course. And have the actor who later will become the star of Story of Ricky ... as a tiny little kid, who is quite charismatic already to be honest. The movie really takes no prisoners and I would have loved it, if I would have been able to watch it on the big screen ... even so: what a ride .. what a crazy experience this was ...
There is no sense in trying to make ... sense of things! The movie does not care about things like logic ... I mean in the first ten minutes you get a shootout, that should have led to multiple arrests to say the least ... and a prosecutor going Dirty Harry on them instead ... not to mention explosions that would never happen in reality ... that work again! Reality combined with logic ... put those words aside, if you want to watch this movie and have a good time ... a grand time actually! Because this is or can be as much fun as any other movie! If you are in the mood for it.
Add Cynthia Rothrock to the mix ... who funnily enough gets Yuen Biao as a stunt double in a few scenes ... and the movie goes off the rails! Well there are more people and there are more deaths that one can count ... and depending on which version you watch - there are good and bad endings ... though one would argue if the good ending is actually that ... but does it really matter? You are here for the insane stunts ... you are here, because the action is so over the top ... you just have to see it to believe it.
Taking the law into your own hands ... an absolute no go ... unless you are starring in a HK action movie that is of course. And have the actor who later will become the star of Story of Ricky ... as a tiny little kid, who is quite charismatic already to be honest. The movie really takes no prisoners and I would have loved it, if I would have been able to watch it on the big screen ... even so: what a ride .. what a crazy experience this was ...