Helios 赤道

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by 陸劍青 Sunny Luk & 梁樂民 Longman Leung

Casted by:

張學友 Jacky Cheung as 肇志仁 / 赤盜 Professor Siu Chi-yan

張家輝 Nick Cheung as 李彦明 Eric Lee Yan-ming

池珍熙 Ji Jin-hee as 崔民浩 Choi Min-ho

崔始源 Choi Siwon as 朴宇哲 Park Woo-cheol

王學圻 Wang Xueqi as 宋鞍 Song An

張震 Chang Chen as 金燾年 Gam Dao-nin

文詠珊 Janice Man as 張怡君 Zhang Yiyun

余文樂 Shawn Yue as 范家明 Fan Ka-ming

顧美華 Josephine Koo as Sophia

 Story: 

South Korea's top most wanted criminal, nicknamed "Helios", and his assistant, nicknamed "Messenger", have successfully stolen a mass destruction weapon secretly developed by the South Korean military, the portable nuclear explosive device DC8 along with sixteen raw material spheres. The police forces of Hong Kong, China and South Korea were informed that "Helios" will hold an underground trading in Hong Kong.

An emergency response team was set up in Hong Kong. Its members, chief inspector Eric Lee Yan-ming of the Counter Terrorism Response Unit, senior Chinese official Song An, and two South Korean weapon experts Choi Min-ho and Park Woo-cheol, work together to trace the whereabouts of the weapon. Lee also specially invites Physics professor Siu Chi-yan of the University of Hong Kong to serve as a special adviser for the operation.

Hong Kong, China and South Korea face the same objective, but with different purposes. Choi wants to hunt down "Helios" to take back the weapon to make sure not to divulge secrets of South Korea. In the position of the Chinese government, Song wants to resolve the current crisis in Hong Kong and halt any terrorism activities in Chinese territories. Lee and Siu face pressure from the two countries and have to deal with the greatest challenge since the establishment of Counter Terrorism Response Unit, with the situation getting more tense.

As times passes by each second, with "Messenger" arrested and DC8 falls into the hands of the Hong Kong Police Force, China and Korea fight for the right to possess the weapon. On the other hand, "Helios" appears in Macau, with plans to retaliate and repossess the weapon. During the last stand, conspiracies are gradually revealed, with everyone caught off guard.

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Its been quite sometime since I have watch a good HK's crime movie, a bit too bad coz I missed out this movie in the cinema last year. Few surprises in this movie such as Jacky Cheung first try on such character; actors from China + HK + Korea + Taiwan can be found in the same movie; Janice Man got the potential to be fighting actress; the most most surprise is to see Josephine Koo after so many years...

Storyline of this movie started a bit exciting & fast, just when you thought you can relax a bit in the middle of the movie, the story twisted & brought another peak part of this movie till the end. The only problem is that i need to read the chinese subtitle when the Korean actors & actresses communicate...

Keeper of Darkness 陀地驅魔人

 Released Year: 2015

Directed by 張家輝 Nick Cheung

Casted by:

張家輝 Nick Cheung as 黃永發 Fatt

張繼聰 Louis Cheung as 阿葱 Chong

郭采潔 Amber Kuo as 江雪 Xue

蔡思貝 Sisley Choi as 方紫寧 Ning

釋延能 Shi Yan Neng as 黑哥 Hei

余文樂 Shawn Yue as 劉江 Jiang

 Story: 

Fatt is a famous exorcist & living with Xue, a ghost who has passed away many years ago. Xue taught him how to be an exorcist without hurting the people & animal who has been used by ghost as a living object.

Fatt & his apprentice Chong, together with the help of Ning, they try to solve the issue of the great evil ghost Hei who has been hurting people around. In the end, Ning let Xue used her body to bid farewell to Fatt on her last day...  

 L² Scored: 3.5/10

L² Comment:

Well, its been a bit disappointed after watching this movie. The whole movie is not that scary at all comparing to its trailer, some more this is the second horror movie Nick Cheung has been directing. Won't consider to watch it again because it will not change my mind towards this movie~

Boys Are Easy 追男仔

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 王晶 Wong Jing

Casted by:

林青霞 Bridget Lin as 程小東 Dong

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 程小南 Nam

邱淑貞 Chingmy Yau as 程小西 Sai

梁家輝 Tony Leung as 謝晒 Cheah

張學友 Jacky Chan as 烏英 Ying

鄭伊健 Ekin Cheng as 李志高 Gou

林志穎 Jimmy Lin as 程小北 Bak

吳耀漢 Richard Ng as 程勝 Sheng

吳君如 Sandra Ng as 痴心 Sum

 Story:

Sheng lost his wife alone to raise three daughters Dong, Nam , Sai and Bak. One day Sheng told his 3 daughters that he has cancer, the only wish is his three daughters to find boyfriends and able to live happily and get married. Dong found Cheah, a gigolo to be her boyfriend; Nam found Ying, a bad guy who's trying to kill Dong; Sai found Gou, a 27 years old virgin rich guy. Just as three of them thought this is just a show to please their father, but things go wrong and they slowly falling in love with each other instead...

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Lol, a funny comedy movie again which is the opposite of "The Romancing Stars"... This time is a female version with 3 famous actresses during that time to be in the lead role whom are Bridget, Maggie & Chingmy. Jimmy Lin is lucky to be the 3 pretty ladies' younger brother instead. Of course there's some part which skip the story a lot, maybe it might be the director's cut, so the whole movie seems like a bit fast forward instead. However, each pair of couples got their main role and stories in here including Richard Ng + Sandra Ng...

Best of the Best 飛虎精英之人間有情

 Released Year: 1992

Directed by 邱礼涛 Herman Yau

Casted by:

张学友 Jacky Cheung as 李文杰 Dee

郑秀文 Sammi Cheng as Heidi

吴孟达 Ng Man-tat as Little Ball

秦沛 Paul Chun as Ngan Kwan

吴家丽 Carrie Ng as Hung

 Story: 

Little Ball is a retired police officer who works as a beverage server in a bar. However, he has not changed his bad habits of being loud-mouth and compulsive drinking and gambling. Fortunately, he is helped and taken care by his confidant Hung. One time, Ball unintentionally got his son Dee, a Special Duties Unit officer, into a dispute with triad leader Ngan Kwan, nearly destroying his son's career.

At the same time, Dee also meets Heidi during a police operation and a romantic relationship ensued between them. However, things do not go well for long when Heidi is discovered to be Ngan's daughter. Ngan forces Dee to resign from his job, but Dee has a strong sense of righteousness and firmly rejects Ngan and proceeds to go on vacation with Heidi on Lantau Island. Seeing how Dee disregards him and also thinking that he is eloping with his daughter, Ngan orders his underlings to find and kill Dee. When Ball hears of this, he goes to plead Ngan, but he gets beaten instead. Later, a group of killers surround Dee in the streets and when he fell into danger, the wounded Ball appears and sacrifices his life to rescue his son. At this time, Dee realizes his father's love for him and vows to seek venegance on Ngan.

 L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

I was dying to watch this movie many years ago but not able to find it, finally i found it :) This is the very first movie of Sammi Cheng~ Sammi is so fresh and pretty, her acting not that good yet but was also nominated as the Best New Actress in 1992, so proud of her.

The whole storyline is not bad, Ng Man Tat is good no matter in comedy or even in this kind of serious film~ Jacky Cheung looks young and cute as well, but of course the acting was kinda not stable during that year too 

Future Cops 超級學校霸王

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

劉德華 Andy Lau as 鐵面 Vega

張學友 Jacky Cheung as 掃把頭 Guile

張衛健 Dicky Cheung as 陳大雄（余鐵雄）悟空 Hung / Kong

邱淑貞 Chingmy Yau as 大雄的妹妹 / 春美 Chun-Li

鄭伊健 Ekin Cheng as 阿健 Ken

任達華 Simon Yam as 發達星 Dhalsim

劉小慧 Winnie Lau as 小慧 Wai

許志安 Andy Hui as 余忌安 Kei On

楊采妮 Charlie Yeung A  采妮 Choy Nei

周比利 Billy Chow as 泰王 Sagat

苑瓊丹 Kingdom Yuen as 大雄母親 / 春代 Chun Dai

郭富城 Aaron Kwok as 阿龍 Ryu

 Story: 

In the year 2043, an evil crime lord (The General/M. Bison) is trying to take over the world. He was arrested and was sentenced to jail by the Judge. The General's minions, Kent (Ken), Thai King (Sagat), and Toyota (E. Honda) travel to the year 1993 to kill the Judge before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung (Ryu), Broom Man (Guile), Ti Man (Vega), and Ah-Sing (Dhalsim) hear of their plot. The Police Director decided to send them back to the past also to protect the Judge. Lung ultimately stays behind because he is the Police Director's brother in law.

Once the Future Cops get to 1993, they land in the backyard of 20 something year old high school student Tai-Hung, who helps them stay under cover by letting them live with him and his family. Ti Man pretends to be a fellow student while striking up a romance with Tai Hung's sister Chun May (Chun Li); Broom Man pretends to be a music teacher at the school while also striking up a romance with one of the students, Crab Angel; while Ah-Sing follows Tai Hung pretending to be his servant, all the while protecting him from the evil school bullies, while Tai Hung pursues a romance of his own with his long-time friend Choi Ney. Eventually the villains show up, wreak havoc, and many battles ensue. Tai-Hung ends up being the Judge after his mother remarried and his surname changed.

  L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

Street Fighter is the hit game that we play in the 90s, who doesn't know street fighter will have to be slaughter lol~ This is one of my favorite movie even though the characters were dressed differently lol~ Storyline of course is funny (and rubbish), but who cares, the most important is, only Wang Jing can gather so many superstars to  film this during the 90s and this has definitely become one of the classic film for the Hong Kong blockbuster :)

Temporary Family 失戀急讓

 Released Year: 2014

Directed by 卓韻芝 Cheuk Wan Chi

Casted by:

張家輝 Nick Cheung as 項少龍 Loong

鄭秀文 Sammi Cheng as 馮沙律 Charlotte

楊穎 Angelababy as 阿黑 Hak

歐豪 Oho Ou as黃初 Very

胡杏兒 Myolie Wu as 蔣儀 Yee

黃子華 Dayo Wong as 徐子聰 Chong

 Story: 

4 person from the big city invested in a big condo to earn money. Loong is a property agent and wish to earn more money to marry with his stewardess girlfriend Yee; Charlotte is a divorcee who wish to win back her husband Chong and bought their own condo to wait for him; Hak is Loong's step daughter who sold off her house to invested in the condo; Very is a rich heir and do this investment just to earn some life experience.

4 of them fight to stay in that condo but every morning clean up the condo when there is someone visit to buy the house. Loong and Charlotte fall in love with each other and dont mind to be together even though without money. 

 L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment: 

This is kinda different from Sammi's previous movie. Not much comedy from her side but Nick express most of it. The storyline is not bad and very special, love the part when Sammi cry and express her love towards her ex husband to Nick.

Flying Dagger 神經刀與飛天貓

 Released Year: 1993

Directed by 朱延平 Chu Yen Ping

Casted by:

梁家輝 Tony Leung as 「大飛刀」韓沖 Chung

林志穎 Jimmy Lin as「小飛刀」韓林 Lam

張敏 Sharla Cheung as「大風騷」風二娘 Lady Fung

葉蘊儀 Gloria Yip as「小風騷」風鈴 Ling

張學友 Jacky Cheung as「九尾狐」朱星 Ninetail

張曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 飛天貓 Flyingcat

 Story: 

The Hon [Dagger] Brothers, Chung and Lam, who are in fact uncle and cousin, are rival bounty hunters to the Fung [Bewitchment] Sisters, and take glee in thwarting each other because Chung refused to marry Lady Fung. Fung Ling and Lam are also in love, but do not acknowledge it.

Emperor Tsao hires the Hons to capture the Nine-Tails Fox, whom he claims has made a major robbery of his household, including the rape and murder of his daughter and the murder of 41 servants. The Hons are distracted when they find the Fungs captured by Never Die and his brothers, who in spite of decapitation and loss of a hand, proceed to chase them (the severed hand grabbing at one of them) chase the Hons to the lair of Nine-Tails Fox, who has recently caused his wife, the apsara known as Flying Cat to walk out on him. The group discovers that Never Die is allergic to glib talk, and begin speaking to each other glibly, Chung, too embarrassed to speak to Lady Fung in that way, speaking to Nine-Tails Fox, and the two pulling off each other shirts, and trap him. Never Die soon dissolves, and the four bounty hunters and Never Die's hand take him away. Flying Cat returns to find drawn images of what has gone on previously, including what she interprets as her husband's homosexual behavior, and chastises the old man who sends the drawings out through a slot for not intervening, which he says is not his place.

Nine-Tails Fox, who proudly admits to being a thief but insists he never hurts anyone, escapes from the bounty hunters to the inn of Pang Tin-hong, where he becomes involved with numerous courtesans. The bounty hunters follow him, but not before Flying Cat catches up with him. Still other bounty hunters, including the burly Western Ace, a gay man who sings 1980s American pop tunes, and a transsexual who delivers poisoned kisses, arrive at the inn. Because the Hons and Fungs pay well and are supported by the police, Pang sides with them against the new bounty hunters, claiming that he and his wife are Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. The transsexual kisses Chung, causing him to turn green and infect him with poison. After the other bounty hunters are defeated, Pang sends Lam and Ling outside, insisting that they are under eighteen, although both claim to be eighteen, in order to explain that the cure for the poison is to have sex nine times, then eat the strange fetus that will be born three days later. Chung tries to take Lady Fung to bed, but inadvertently passes the disease to Pang, whose wife and he fight a lot and never want it at the same time.

While Ling and Lam are outside, Never Die's hand grabs Ling's shoulder, and she thinks it is Lam's and rests her head on his shoulder. Thus distracted, Tsao captures the two of them, and the thieves and the bounty hunters team up against their common enemy and rescue the young ones.

At the end of the film, Pang's wife gives birth to the strange fetus, and the Hons, Fungs, Fox, and Cat seemingly forgetting about the idea that it is to be eaten and ready and excited to receive it as if a normal birth, are horrified to see that the baby is in fact Never Die.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

 I still feel that the old Hong Kong Martial comedy is funnier than the new Hong Kong comedy movie... At least there is a strong storyline and the fighting part is good also... Love this combination and it has been such a long time i didn't see Jimmy & Gloria in the movie, miss them~