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'A New Beginning' focuses around the story of Leung, the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
A Trailer For Chee Keong Cheung’s Bodyguard: A New Beginning(From Twitch. 30 September 2008, 7:22 PM, PDT)
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Not the routine action movie you might expect moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vincent Sze | ... | Leung |
| Richard Ng | ... | Wong |
 | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | ... | Kai |
| Carl Ng | ... | Yuen |
 | Stephanie Langton | ... | Chloe |
 | Mark Strange | ... | Assassin Brother Alex |
| Nathan Lewis | ... | Assassin Brother Chad |
| Fui-On Shing | ... | Hui |
| Sophie Linfield | ... | Sarah |
 | Brandon Rhea | ... | Drunken businessman fighter |
| Mike Leeder | ... | Kurtz |
| Digger Mesch | ... | Mendez |
| Ian Powers | ... | Cole |
| Yuri Ting | ... | Ramirez |
 | Jacob J Ziacan | ... | Gangster John Kreese |
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Rated R for violence including a brief sexual assault, and language.Parents Guide:
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UK:95 min (approx)Country:
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1.78 : 1 moreCertification:
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A scene where Yuri Ting and Mike Leeder drag Carl Ng into a car, was mistaken for a real fight by passersby who called the Police. moreSoundtrack:
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Director Chee Keong Cheung's strengths and weaknesses as a filmmaker are as evident in Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008) as they were in his debut Underground (2007). Both are ambitious, ensemble films blending melodrama and martial arts action, as lavishly filmed as their budgets allowed. Cheung clearly has the best eye of all the directors of independent British action films but has yet to master his craft. While the characterisation and plotting are more coherent than in Underground a lack of focus is still apparent. Vincent Sze is ostensibly the lead, but he's largely silent and fails to make much of an impression. He's not presented as the next Jet Li as one expects. Instead it is experienced co-star Richard Ng who effortlessly emerges as the real star. Shot partly in Hong Kong and featuring Hollywood villain Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Bodyguard is a distinctive if not wholly successful film that's well worth seeking out.