Incredibly prolific director Herman Yau presents his fourth film of the 2023, “Moscow Mission”, after “The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell”, “Death Notice” and “Raid on the Lethal Zone”. Yau has turned into a bona fide master of action and this last effort is a bombastic take on the true story of a series of violent robberies in 1993 on the Beijing-Moscow train and the Chinese mission to eradicate them and capture the robbers. It's not the first film dealing with these particular incidents; Michael Mak had directed “The Train Robbers” in 1995, and there is also a more recent 31-episode online drama, directed by Zhang Rui. Chen Daming has curated the screenplay, incorporating as much action set pieces as possible, although, maybe at the expense of the script's fluidity.
Moscow Mission is screening at UdineFar East Film Festival 2024
It's 1993 and the economy situation in China and Russia is in a state of great confusion.
Moscow Mission is screening at UdineFar East Film Festival 2024
It's 1993 and the economy situation in China and Russia is in a state of great confusion.
- 4/26/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
“Long Arm of the Law” remains one of the quintessential Hong Kong neo-noirs, with it’s memorable conclusion and bleak narrative of mainlanders coming to Hong Kong for a series of armed robberies. The third instalment of these stand alone stories comes with the added star power of Andy Lau and a slightly more conventional love story at its core. With a series that challenges and critiques both the Chinese and Hong Kong cultures does the addition of a bigger star dilute from this? Whilst to a degree this is certainly true and the themes becoming secondary to the central story, this is not to say it is any the less powerful.
Lee Cheung-kong (Andy Lau) becomes an unwitting accomplice in a robbery when his friends arrive at his property to hide. When they are discovered, he too is arrested by Mao (Elvis Tsui) and sentenced to execution.
Lee Cheung-kong (Andy Lau) becomes an unwitting accomplice in a robbery when his friends arrive at his property to hide. When they are discovered, he too is arrested by Mao (Elvis Tsui) and sentenced to execution.
- 7/21/2021
- by Ben Stykuc
- AsianMoviePulse
In the past decade, Hong Kong has seen a growing number of first-time or emerging filmmakers. To help young filmmakers build a long-term sustainable career and to meet the needs of an increasingly diversified audience culture and film industry, the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) sees a pertinent need to assist filmmakers to expand their professional and personal horizons, enrich their crafts, network and get recognised on local and international levels.
In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is the Hkac’s guest curator of the film screening series and will conduct discussion panels and workshops under this programme.
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 06.06.2019 – 23.06.2019
Schedule...
In 2019, coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, one of the world’s most prestigious and influential breeding grounds for accomplished filmmakers, the Hkac presents New Waves, New Shores: Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 50 Meets Hong Kong Cinema. Hong Kong-based film critic, journalist and curator, Clarence Tsui, is the Hkac’s guest curator of the film screening series and will conduct discussion panels and workshops under this programme.
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 06.06.2019 – 23.06.2019
Schedule...
- 6/2/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Director: Michael Mak. Review: Chris Sawin. There's a plot summary on the back of the "Butterfly Swords" DVD, but there's more story in this little paragraph than there is in the entire film. It also gives away the one major plot point. Not that it matters because you won't really be paying attention to the story anyway. As you're watching "Butterfly Sword," it's difficult to distinguish who you're supposed to root for. You should obviously side with the top billed actors, but their actions seem pretty villainous especially Lady Ko (Michelle Yeoh). She's basically emotionless, doesn't know how to do anything properly other than kill people with ribbons, and says on more than one occasion that "you shouldn't think of her as a woman." She spends the majority of the film trying to convince Sing (Tony Leung) to be with her even though she knows Sing is deeply in love with Butterfly (Joey Wong). Meanwhile,...
- 7/11/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
Director: Michael Mak. Review: Chris Sawin. There's a plot summary on the back of the "Butterfly Swords" DVD, but there's more story in this little paragraph than there is in the entire film. It also gives away the one major plot point. Not that it matters because you won't really be paying attention to the story anyway. As you're watching "Butterfly Sword," it's difficult to distinguish who you're supposed to root for. You should obviously side with the top billed actors, but their actions seem pretty villainous especially Lady Ko (Michelle Yeoh). She's basically emotionless, doesn't know how to do anything properly other than kill people with ribbons, and says on more than one occasion that "you shouldn't think of her as a woman." She spends the majority of the film trying to convince Sing (Tony Leung) to be with her even though she knows Sing is deeply in love with Butterfly (Joey Wong). Meanwhile,...
- 7/11/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
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