Shu dan long wei (1995)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Directors:

Jing Wong
Lun Ah

Writers:

Domonic Muir (dubbed version)
Jing Wong (writer)

Release Date:

1 July 1995 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

He Redefines Revenge

Plot:

After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Hand Grenade | Poisoned Blade | Obscene Finger Gesture | Animal Attack

Cast

Jet Li	...	Kit Li
Jacky Cheung	...	Frankie Lone
Chingmy Yau	...	Helen
Charlie Yeung	...	Joyce
Kelvin Wong	...	The Doctor / David Wang
Valerie Chow	...	Fai-Fai
Billy Chow	...	Kong
Ma Wu	...	Frankie's Father
Charlie Cho	...	Charlie
Ben Lam	...	Rabbit (English dubbed)
Chung-Hsien Yang	...	Detective Chow Kam (Joyce's Boyfriend)
Suki Kwan	...	Li's Wife
Bobby Yip	...	Ugly Extra
Tak Yuen	...	Salvage-Corps Man
Corey Yuen	...	Wai

Also Known As:

High Risk (Hong Kong: English title)
Meltdown (USA) (video title (dubbed version))
Sue daam lung wei (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and some language.

Runtime:

USA:101 min | Hong Kong:101 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | Mandarin | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Iceland:16 | South Korea:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Netherlands:16 | Germany:18 | Hong Kong:IIB | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Golden Sun Entertainment

Trivia:

Jacky Cheung's character Frankie Lone was originally intended for 'Jackie Chan'. Before production began on High Risk, Chan was starring in Jing Wong's movie, Sing si lip yan (1993) (a.k.a. City Hunter). They didn't get along during the filming, and the experience of working with Jackie was so bad that Wong Jing chose to make the character of Frankie Lone a mockery of Chan. Jackie Chan was understandably offended and Jet Li personally apologized to Jackie for his involvement with the movie.

Goofs:

Continuity: In one shot where a sign of the 'Grandeur' hotel is shown, it's actually mis-spelled 'Granedur'.

Quotes:

The Doctor: From now on, errors will be treated with zero tolerance. As an example, I point to the sloppy execution of last week's bank robbery, where one unsightly error nearly set off the alarm... You know what I'm referring to don't you... Li Chin?
Li Chin: It wasn't me, Doctor.
The Doctor: Don't worry... I know it was Wang.

Movie Connections:

References Gojira (1954)

Lots of action but wastes Jet's skills

This movie would've been a perfect opportunity to translate Jet's skills into a modern setting. We have Die Hard-esque plot with terrorists taking over the building. We have Billy Chow as one of the terrorists. There are only two people (Jet included)who know how to fight. And what do we have? Two fights. One has Jet fighting this impressive General guy with light posts. The other has Jacky Cheung beating on Billy Chow while doing a Bruce Lee impression. Those fights are decent. The rest of the action is some good gunplay. But I don't want to see Jet shooting guns as much as I want to see him go hand-to-hand. Well, on the upside, there's a lot of action and movie rarely lets up. It also has Chingmy Yau, one of my favorite actresses from Hong Kong. It's just that Jet Li doesn't give much of a physical performance in this one.