The ground-breaking 'Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain' is undoubtedly one of the most famous and influential films to emerge from Hong Kong - the inspiration for John Carpenter's 'Big Trouble In Little China' and heavily borrowed by director Ang Lee to re-create the style for his epic 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'. Featuring breath-taking art design striking cinematography and stunning locations in the Sichun Mountains Zu Warriors revolutionised the Hong Kong special-effect
Police Assassins combines a mismatched detective buddy movie with Three Stooges-style buffoonery. Making the mixture more unusual still, both detectives are female, Michelle Yeoh (Magnificent Warriors), in only her second film, joining forces with American martial arts legend Cynthia Rothrock (China O'Brien), in her then debut, to track down some missing microfilm. After introducing Yeoh in a direct steal from Dirty Harry the plot stagnates as the microfilm falls into the hands of small-time crooks, Asprin (Hoi Mang), Strepsil (John Sham) and Panadol (action movie producer Hark Tsui). Though their physical comedy is ingeniously choreographed the routine rapidly becomes tiresome, far too little space being given to Yeoh and Rothrock. The latter's 1980s' fashions date the movie and the dubbing is dreadful, though entertainment is to be had from a supporting villain who looks strangely like Groucho Marx on a very bad hair day. For martial arts fans the film nevertheless delivers several excellent fight scenes and an inventive and exciting finale. Collectors should know Police Assassins has also been released as In the Line of Duty 2, Super Cops and Yes, Madam, the last of which is actually the English title on this print. --Gary S Dalkin
When a couple of street urchins come across a lonely rich kid the three become friends when his dubious uncle mistakes them all for his nephews... A change of pace from the high-octane ""bullet ballet"" kinetics that characterise his Hong Kong work Run Tiger Run is ample demonstration of John Woo's comic talents creating a frothy funny culture-clash comedy for all the family!
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