City Hunter 城市獵人

Released Year: 1993

Directed by 王晶 Wang Jing

Casted by:

成龍 Jackie Chan as 孟波 Ryo Saeba

王祖賢 Joey Wong as 惠香 Kaori Makimura

後藤久美子 Kumiko Goto as 今村清子 Shizuko Imumura

邱淑貞 Chingmy Yau as 芽子 Saeko Nogami

黎明 Leon Lai as 高达 Gao Da

Richard Norton as 麥當奴 MacDonald

Gary Daniels as Kim

 Story: 

Ryo Saeba and Kaori Makimura are assigned to locate Shizuko Imumura, the runaway daughter of the CEO of a prominent Japanese newspaper. Kaori leaves in the middle of the search, unhappy with the way Ryo ignores her romantic feelings for him and flirts with other woman. Ryo finds Shizuko at a skateboarding park and a chase ensues, but she escapes in disguise.

Shizuko boards a luxury cruise liner, the Fuji Maru, with the ticket she found in the suit she stole. Kaori also boards the ship with her lustful cousin while Ryo sneaks inside to follow her. A terrorist gang led by Donald Mac have plans to hijack it and take the rich passengers hostage with Police Officer Saeko Nogami and her buxom sidekick in pursuit.

Staying next door from each other, Shizuko overhears Donald's plan. Donald discovers her and sends one of his men to kill her, but she knocks him out and escapes. She then bumps into the ship's first officer, who takes her to the boiler room and reveals himself as a terrorist. When he attempts to silence Shizuko, Ryo, who had been staying there since his encounter with Kaori and her cousin at the swimming pool, saves her. When Donald's gang arrive, the officer is killed in the shootout while Ryo and Shizuko escape into the movie theater, where Game of Death is being shown. To beat two towering opponents, Ryo interprets Bruce Lee's techniques from the film.

At the ship's casino, a party hosted by the captain is interrupted when Donald kills the captain and terrorizes the partygoers, including Saeko and her sidekick. After robbing them of their valuables, he entices the rich patrons into a sadistic card game. A few opponents are quickly disposed of until Kao Ta, a skilled card gamer who uses his cards as shurikens, joins in. When Donald is distracted by seeing Ryo and Shizuko not far away, Ta and Saeko put an end to his game.

Donald's henchman Kim kidnaps Kaori and takes her to his room. When Ryo bursts in, both men fight before Donald and his men interrupt, capturing Ryo in the process. Kaori escapes, bumping into Shizuko, Saeko, and the rest of the main characters. They take down a gay terrorist trying to seduce Kaori's cousin and prepare to save Ryo.

The next day, Ryo is stood before a firing squad. Shizuko, Saeko, and her sidekick interrupt the planned execution, but are forced to separate by Donald's gang. Shizuko uses her gymnastic skills to defeat one henchman, Saeko saves Ta after he runs out of cards in a fight with several terrorists, and her sidekick falls of a ledge and is left unconscious. Ryo goes into the gaming parlor with his hands still tied, but is thrown into a Street Fighter II arcade game by Kim and suffers an electric shock. This causes him to hallucinate and think Kim is Ken from the game. After two failed attempts, Ryo defeats him as Chun-Li.

As a Taiwanese counter terrorism unit, the "Thunderbolts Squad", arrives and take his men out, Donald blows up bombs he had set up all over the ship and takes Kaori hostage at the casino. When Ryo and Saeko arrive, he injures both women and starts a long fight with Ryo. However, Donald is thrown into the stage and dies when he accidentally steps on his remote, setting off the bombs behind the T.V. panels.

Ryo and Kaori find Shizuko and return to her father. He speaks to Ryo privately, seeing him as a future husband to Shizuko. Listening to their conversation, Kaori leaves in anger, unaware that Ryo has declined the man's offer. However, Ryo finds her and tries to apologize with a rose, but then Saeko drives up and flirts with him. He gives her the rose instead and furious, Kaori smashes him through the air with a big hammer. Ryo wakes up in his recurring dream with beautiful women at the swimming pool.

 L² Scored: 7/10

L² Comment:

A movie based on the famous japanese comic, its very suitable for Jackie Chan to act in this character as in the real person, he is very welcome by the ladies and a lot of the ladies will stick around with him because of his body/flame? The storyline is nice, never expect Joey Wong can be so funny too~ All the ladies are pretty gorgeous except Kumiko Goto, whom i don't understand why she deserve to be one of the pretty girl in this movie~  

Infernal Affairs III 無間道III：終極無間

 Released Year: 2003

Directed by 劉偉強 Andrew Lau & 麥兆輝 Alan Mak

Casted by:

劉德華 Andy Lau as 劉健明 Lau Kin-ming

梁朝偉 Tony Leung as 陳永仁 Chan Wing-yan

黎明 Leon Lai as 楊錦榮 Yeung Kam-wing

陳道明 Chen Daoming as 沈澄 Shen Cheng 

陳慧琳 Kelly Chen as 李心兒 Dr. Lee Sum-yee 

 Story: 

Infernal Affairs III uses parallel storytelling, flashing between the past and the present.

Six months before Chan's death

Undercover cop Chan Wing-yan seeks to uncover the link between Hong Kong triad boss Hon Sam and the mysterious Chinese gang leader Shen Cheng. Since Hon's ascension to the seat of triad boss was due to the death of his predecessor, Ngai Wing-hau, Hon is suspicious of all his men for fear they might usurp his position. He tests Chan's loyalty by ordering him to smash an ashtray on Shen's brother during a negotiation, resulting in Chan's arrest by Inspector Yeung Kam-wing. Yeung tells Chan that though Chan does not recognise him, he recognises Chan and he warns the latter to "be careful". Chan is released after both Hon and Shen fetch him at police headquarters.

Concurrently, Chan is prosecuted for violent behaviour. His superior, Superintendent Wong Chi-shing, persuades the court to allow Chan to seek therapy, leading him to meet Dr. Lee Sum-yee. Hon asks Chan to deliver arms to Shen, but he and other triad members do not show up. When Chan delivers the cargo, Shen's men discover that the boxes are empty and open fire on Chan; Shen and Chan shoot each other in the limbs during the crossfire. Shen finds out that Chan is an undercover cop when Yeung unexpectedly arrives on the scene. Yeung tells Chan that Shen is also an undercover cop, working for Chinese authorities. Yeung also tells Chan that he gained top honours when he was in the police academy due to Chan's "expulsion". The three shake hands and wait for the chaos to subside before leaving.

Ten months after Chan's death

Lau Kin-ming, Hon's former mole in the Hong Kong Police Force, has been demoted to administrative duty pending an investigation into the deaths of Chan and Inspector B. He falsely claims that B shot Chan in the head while holding him hostage, and that he killed B in retaliation. After months of investigation, Lau is transferred back to Internal Affairs, where he struggles to whitewash his past and cover his true identity. Lau later learns that Hon had previously planted five other moles in the police force, one of whom might be a fellow Security Division Inspector, Yeung. A battle of wits develops between Lau and Yeung, as each of them tries to discover the other's secret.

Meanwhile, Lau suffers from an identity collapse as he loses track of reality, wrestling with guilt over Chan's death and grappling with his impending divorce from his wife, Mary. His psychological trauma deteriorates to the point where he begins to see himself as Chan. As "Chan", Lau makes it a personal mission to apprehend Yeung, whom he sees as his former self. After witnessing an incident where Lau suffers a hallucination, Dr. Lee conducts a hypnosis on him and finds out that he was Hon's mole. Lau realises his folly and knocks Lee unconscious before escaping.

Lau steals tapes from Yeung's office safe, using spy cameras to determine the code. He thinks he hears recordings of Yeung relating information to Hon, and leads his team to the Security Division to arrest Yeung just as Shen arrives. Lau plays a tape recording, which is actually the conversation between him and Hon. When Lau's second-in-command tries to arrest him instead, Lau panics and draws his gun, killing Yeung. He is immediately shot by Shen and attempts suicide by shooting himself in the neck. During a search of Lau's office, a tape is found in his safe and played. It is a recording of the song sung by Tsai Chin, given to him by Hon's wife.

Eleven months after Chan's death

A series of flashbacks play: immediately after Chan's death, Shen and Yeung meet. Shen suspects Lau. Yeung breaks into Lau's office to find tape recordings of his conversations with Hon, proving that Shen is right.

Yeung is buried next to Chan in the police cemetery. Shen and Lee visit the graves and Shen says to Lee: "Events change men, but men do not change events. But these two men are extraordinary because they changed events."

Lau ends up crippled and catatonic, lost inside his own mind, haunted by the spirit of Mary (Hon Sam's wife, whom he had a crush on in Infernal Affairs II) and locked in his own "continuous hell". His divorced wife Mary visits and tells him, "Our baby can say "papa" now." Before the picture fades into the next scene, the camera pans down onto Lau's fingers tapping out in Morse code, "H-E-L..." (and then the start of another 'L' as the picture dims).

Before the film ends, there is one final flashback to the hi-fi shop scene in Infernal Affairs, where Lau is buying an audio system from Chan.

  L² Scored: 10/10

L² Comment:

Years before this film, it has been quite sometime we cannot find so many superstars to act in one Hong Kong movie, this movie did it and it comes to an end for the infernal affair series. The movie is still lead by Andy Lau & Tony Leung and in the meantime added in Leon Lai and Chen Dao Ming to spice up the whole movie. Not sure why they chose Kelly Chen as the only main actress, but her acting skill is kinda fake but luckily it did not affected much of this movie. Happy to see that Carina Lau and Sammi Cheng appeared again on the closing part. Both of them appeared less than one minute but u can feel that their acting is way way way much more better than Kelly. Anyway, this movie also won Andy Lau his Golden Horse Best Actor Award...

Leaving Me Loving You 大城小事

 Released Year: 2004

Directed by 叶伟信 Wilson

Casted by:

黎明 Leon Lai as 周谦 Qian
王菲 Faye Wong as 小月 Yue

 Story:

Qian is a mobile doctor who went around to save people while Yue is a graphic designer. Both of them love each other and live in Shanghai, but one misunderstanding cause them to break up and went into separate path from each other. A birthday of both of their client make them get back together again. Qian can't let go of Yue and decided to move near to her. Time prove that they still love each other and faith bring them back together.

 L² Scored: 2/10

L² Comment:

Its kind of a boring love movie i should say~ Having Faye Wong in every movie is a mess!!! Beside being like a walking stick, she doesn't know how to act at all~ one word, boring :P

White Vengeance 鸿门宴

Released Year: 2011
Directed by 李仁港 Daniel Lee

Casted by:
黎明 Leon Lai as 刘邦 Liu Bang
张涵予 Hanyu Zhang as 张良 Zhang Liang
冯绍峰 Shaofeng Feng as 项羽 Xiang Yu
刘亦菲 Yifei Liu as 虞姬 Yu Ji
黄秋生 Anthony Wong as 范增 Fan Zhen
陈小春 Jordan Chan as 樊哙 Fan Fan
安志杰 Andy On as 韩信 Han Xin
Story:

Bang & Yu team up to roll over the Qing Dynasty, they received instruction from the Huai King and state that who ever get the Xian Yang City will be able to announce himself as king in the city. Bang together with Fan and gangs always work as vanguard in the war while Yu took over the fame and crown.

Bang success to invite Liang to be his war consultant while Yu has always been help by Zhen who is very talented at strategizing in war. Bang was instructed by Yu to send Yu's beloved YuJi back to her hometown to avoid from getting hurt in the war. Fan feel like Yu purposely do that to get Bang away from Xian Yang City. Liang consult him to take another way and take over the Xian Yang City first while having Yuji with them. Yu was pissed off, Zhen told Yu to set up a Hong Men Banquet and invit Bang over. After some strategic arrangement, Bang brought along his army and Liang to the Hong Men Banquet. Zhen set up 5 chinese chest to compete with Liang, whenever Liang lost one chest, one of their army will be punish. Things go on and Liang lost 4 out of 5. Fight occurs and Bang forced to surrender and give the Xian Yang City back to Yu while abandon Liang.

Though this has been strategize earlier, Liang manage to get Yu's heart and outcast Zhen. Zhen feel sad and left while passing a message to Yu for future usage. Liang went to visit Zhen and compete on the final chest, Zhen passed away at that session. Liang took this chance to flee away leaving Yu alone to fight with Bang. Yu was angry and strike a war with Bang. During the fight, Bang managed to get help from the other king when Yu killed Huai King. To fight against the large number of enemy, Yu lost his battle and bring along small number of armies and ran to Wu Jiang City with Yuji. After a few fight, Yu lost all his army, Yuji killed herself and Yu went along with her.

Discovering the message, Bang found out Zhen has been strategize and bribe over Liang, Xin & He to betray Bang. Bang pissed off and assassinated them. Though Bang become the emperor but he lost all his brother who fight with him in the battlefield. Fan even kill himself in front of Bang to show that he does not trust Bang anymore. Bang live his life trusting nobody even his own family. When Bang almost passed away in his old life, he met Liang again, who managed to survive.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Its a great history movie this year, so happy to watch it with some friends who are so also interested in China history :) Though the storyline is good by using a flashback memories on the movie, but the ending part is a bit laggy and boring. The best part will be the time when Zhen & Liang compete with each other in the chinese chest competition.

Leon Lai still the same-old-leon, his expression is bad and boring, i wonder how he ever won the best actor before~ lol. The one who surprise me is Jordan Chan!!! You can see that he's do his hardwork for this film. This proof that he's not only good in comedy but this kind of history-war film as well~ good job:)

Comrades: Almost A Love Story 甜蜜蜜

Released Year: 1996
Directed by 陈可辛 Peter Chan

Casted by:
黎明 Leon Lai as 黎小军 Jun
张曼玉 Maggie Cheung as 李翘 Qiao
曾志伟 Eric Tsang as 欧阳豹 Bao
杜可风 Chrisopher Doyle as 英文老师 English teacher
杨恭如 Kristy Yang as 方小婷 Teng
Story:

Jun came to Hong Kong to get a better carrier and stayed at his aunt place. He met Qiao who is working in McDonalds and also from China. Jun missed his fiancee Teng who is still in China but started to have an affair with Qiao.

Both of them work hard for a better future in Hong Kong. Both of them love Teressa Teng. Both of them only have each others as friend. A lot of of similarity pull them close to each other. But on the economy crisis, Qiao lose her money and force to become a masseur. Qiao met Bao, who is the head of a gangster.

One day when Jun decided to buy a bracelet for Teng, he bought a same one for Qiao and admitted he has fell in love with Qiao. Qiao did not want to become a third party in Jun & Teng relationship, she decided to leave and follow Bao. Few years later, Jun and Teng married and Teng move to Hong Kong. Qiao came to their wedding and show that she was good in her life.

After a few years, Bao ran away when being investigate by the police, Qiao flee with him, leaving Jun behind who decided to continue their relationship. However, Jun still decided to divorce with Teng when he found out Qiao left. Qiao and Bao live a new life in New York but Bao was killed by some local black guys who try to snatch his gold watch. Qiao is sad and forced to send back to Hong Kong. But during her escort to airport, she saw Jun who is riding his bicycle. Qiao escaped and ran after Jun. But no matter how hard she chase, she did not manage to catch up with Jun.

In 1995, Qiao got her passport finally to stay in USA but was shocked when discovered the super celebrity Teressa Teng passed away. Qiao finally met Jun when both of them is watching the news of Teressa Teng in a shopping window.

L² Scored: 8/10

L² Comment:

Maggie Cheung's romance movie is a must watch for everyone :) This film is make as a memorize for our beloved Teressa Teng who make a success in her carrier. Using the name of one of Teressa's song as the film title "Tian Mi Mi", this movie has also strike a success by winning a few awards such as Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress & Best supporting actor.

Killing Me Tenderly 愛你愛到殺死你

Released Year: 1997
Directed by 李力持 LikChi-Lee

Casted by:
黎明 Leon Lai as 黎树根 George
郑秀文 Sammi Cheng as 朱金梅 Cindy
黄伟文 Wyman Wong as 干妈 Godmother
谷德昭 Vincent Kok as 奶妈 Nanny　
郑祖 Joe Cheng as 姨妈 Aunty 　　
黎耀祥 Wayne Lai as Jelly
吴君如 Sandra Ng as 阿笑 Siu
夏萍 Ping Ha as George's mother
Story:

George is working as a policeman in village and he always wanted to work in the city, by tricking his mother and his cousin, Siu that he has join the gangster. The mother forced him out to city. When George reach city, his first mission is to protect a second line singer, Cindy.

Cindy has been accepting a lots of threatened letter that she will be in danger. With her team, Godmother, Aunty & Nanny to work for her. George has to pretend as gay to get close to Cindy. But Cindy doesn't believe, and George need to kiss Godmother to prevent Cindy from suspect. During these moments, George has get himself familiar with Cindy and gangs, they experience all the happiness and sadness together.

One night when Cindy was having an interview at the radio station, she received a threaten call. To protect Cindy, George's real identity was exposed, Cindy get pissed off because fell betrayed. Leaving Cindy, George was replaced by other policeman to take care of Cindy. All these threaten was actually came from a crazy fans Jelly. Jelly keep on tracking and stalking Cindy from everywhere. When everything gone crazy in the city, Cindy decided to go for a visit to George's village. Both of them quickly fall in love with each other.

Back to the city, Cindy prepare for her mini concert. Before the mini concert, Cindy received a letter from George. Siu told Cindy that George cannot attend the concert due to work, this has disapointed Cindy. But finally George come to the concert as well. A sudden attack, everyone thought the crazy fans was caught. But Jelly decided to kill Cindy and then suicide. Jelly started to attack.

On Cindy last song, Jelly drag as a woman and go on stage to attack. Jelly got a knife and try to stab Cindy but was protected by George. George shot and killed Jelly on the spot. Lastly, God mother fall in love with Siu and they get married. Cindy and George are happily together too.

L² Scored: 7.5/10

L² Comment:

Yay, Sammi :) Love her, she's the best. That time Mi already use her talents in acting, but most of the people must be noticing Leon Lai at that moment because of the character. Of course with Wayne Lai and Sandra Ng, a total comedy romance film.

Have to mention that Wyman is good in this movie, haha~ a DJ/song writer who can act as well~ And this movie also contain a lot of Sammi's songs in that year, all the hit songs ever :)

Bodyguards And Assassins 十月圍城

Released Year: 2009
Directed by 陳德森 Teddy Chen

Casted by:
梁家輝 Tony Leung as 陈少白 Bai
王学圻 XueQi-Wang as 李玉堂 Tang
胡军 Hu Jun as 阎孝国 Guo
谢霆锋 Nicholas Tse as 邓四弟 Shi
甄子丹 Donnie Yen as 沈重阳 Yang
王柏杰 PoChieh-Wang as 李重光 Guang
李宇春 YuChun-Li as 方红 Hong
巴特尔 Bateer as 王复明 Ming
黎明 Leon Lai as 刘郁白 Yu
范冰冰 BingBing-Fan as 月茹 Ru
曾志伟 Eric Tsang as 史密夫 Smith
张涵予HanYu-Zhang as 孙中山 Sun YatSen
張學友 Jacky Cheung as 杨衢云 Yun
任达华 Simon Yam as 方天 Tian
周韵 Zhou Yun as 阿纯 Chun
Story:

1906, a year which is very important for China. The time of revolution. Sun Yat Sen is gonna arrive in Guang Dong after his mate of war Yun been killed by Guo. Bai has gathered up everybody to protect Sun Yat Sen on his arrival. Tian is a former army and willing to help, but three days before Sun Yat Sen arrived, he was murdered. To make revenge, Hong the daughter joined force.

Tang is a businessman who support the team of revolution. His son Guang wanted to join forced but was rejected by the father. Tang's concubine, Ru begged Yang, her ex lover to protect Tang when Sun Yat Sen arrived. Guang sneaked out to Bai and willingly to help no matter how the servant Shi try to stop him. Tang eventually has helped Shi to proposed to Chun for a marriage after Sun Yat Sen left, therefore Shi join force too.

Tang has helped the beggar Yu to found his silver fan and he too willing to help for the country. Ming the ex monk also help out to protect. On the say Sun Yat Sen arrived, everyone fought and a lots of them sacrificed. In the end, Guang pretend to be Sun Yat Sen and mislead Guo away so that Sun Yat Sen can escaped safely. But this has cost Guang's life. But finally the revolution has successed.

L² Scored: 8.5/10

L² Comment:

A bit regret that I missed out this great film in cinema last year. With a lot of huge casting from Hong Kong and China, and a preparation for more than 10 years, finally the film took place and show us what they have.

Winning a lot of awards including best film, best director for teddy chen, best lead actor for XueQi-Wang, best supporting actor for Nicholas Tse.

And don't miss out the NBA player, a Mongolian Bateer and super pop singer YuChun-Li have presented their first time in the big screen. Even Michelle Reis has came out for the show after her marriage.

The only failure would be Leon Lai. I just feel that his wig is so so weird... and his expression... gosh... how to explain... but simply not the right things... i dun knw why, but he seems like a big failure in all the movie!!!