Tag: Lau Ching-Wan

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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Warriors of Future 明日戰記 (2022) Review

Making a local sci-fi film is a tough sell in Hong Kong, let alone one that cost a whopping HK$450 million (!) budget. The movie in question is Warriors of Future <明日戰記>, which was originally released in China and Hong Kong cinemas in August but viewers in the rest of the countries can finally get their chance to stream it on Netflix beginning Friday.

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Detective vs. Sleuths 神探大戰 (2022) Review

It’s Mad Detective <神探> revisited but other than sharing the same main character traits and thematic similarities involving personality disorder, Detective vs. Sleuths <神探大戰> bears no direct connection with the aforementioned 2007 movie.

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25 Years Later: Big Bullet 衝鋒隊─怒火街頭 (1996)

The late Benny Chan has directed a number of high-profile Hong Kong action blockbusters in the past including movies like Who Am I? <我是誰> (1998), New Police Story <新警察故事> (2004), Invisible Target <男兒本色> (2007), The White Storm <掃毒> (2013) and of course, his upcoming final work, Raging Fire <怒火>.

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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.

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Final Justice 最後判決 (1997) Review

Perhaps the lesser-known Milkyway film released during the 90s, Derek Chiu’s Final Justice <最後判決> combines a potentially thought-provoking drama with pitch-black comedy undertones about a Catholic priest (Lau Ching-Wan’s Father Li Chi-Ho) finds himself in hot water when a woman named Donna (Almen Wong) accused him of raping her.

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Expect The Unexpected 非常突然 (1998) Review

Patrick Yau’s follow-up to The Longest Nite <暗花>, which released only a few months apart sees the director incorporating the familiar Hong Kong cop-drama tropes with Milkyway’s house-style pessimistic undertones in Expect The Unexpected <非常突然>.

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The Longest Nite 暗花 (1998) Review

As proven in 1997’s Intruder <恐怖雞>, Milkyway certainly knows a thing or two about producing a dark and morally reprehensible crime thriller. And they did it again in The Longest Nite <暗花>.

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A Hero Never Dies 真心英雄 (1998) Review

Imagine if Johnnie To is given the free reign to direct A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色>, the result would be something like A Hero Never Dies <真心英雄>. Like the seminal 1986 action-film classic, Johnnie To explores the popular “heroic bloodshed” subgenre and made it his own in an unabashedly operatic and quirky overtone.

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Too Many Ways To Be No. 1 一個字頭的誕生 (1997) Review

Words like “frantic”, “crazy” and “eccentric” are best described for Too Many Ways To Be No. 1 <一個字頭的誕生>, an entertaining genre film that combines triad drama with pitch-black comedy undertones — all gleefully deconstructed in a Milkyway house-style.

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