Tag: Herman Yau
Death Notice 暗殺風暴 (2023) Review
It’s Herman Yau again and this time, it’s a mid-budget mystery thriller titled Death Notice <暗殺風暴>. A long-delayed production that has been circling around since 2019, with multiple release dates getting reshuffled for various reasons, making me wonder whether the movie is ever going to see the light of day.
The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell 掃毒3: 人在天涯 (2023) Review
Herman Yau sure knows how to blow stuff up in The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell <掃毒3: 人在天涯>. Vehicles exploded and flipped in the air before hitting the ground. The army base headquarters, which was purposefully built on a full-scale set in New Territories as a stand-in for Thailand’s Golden Triangle due to pandemic-era travel restrictions at the time of filming, ended up getting blown to smithereens as a result of an air assault.
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15 Years Later: On The Edge 黑白道 (2006)
It has been 15 years since Herman Yau’s On The Edge <黑白道> was released to little fanfare (at least judging by its underwhelming box-office result). But it also turned out to be one of Herman Yau’s best movies ever directed during the 2000s.
Shock Wave 2 拆彈專家2 (2020) Review
Riding the trend of franchise-focused thematic sequels populated by the likes of Overheard <竊聽風雲>, The White Storm <掃毒> and Line Walker <使徒行者> film series, Shock Wave 2 <拆彈專家2> follows the footsteps by having the same actor (in this case, Andy Lau) but with new characters and storyline altogether.
The White Storm 2: Drug Lords 掃毒2: 天地對決 (2019) Review
Here’s the thing about Herman Yau’s The White Storm 2: Drug Lords <掃毒2: 天地對決>: it has nothing to do with Benny Chan’s first movie released back in 2013, despite carrying the same White Storm <掃毒> title and features Louis Koo again as one of the lead actors.
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