Tag: Herman Yau
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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