Comments (1) Their work was nominated for the Best Action Design Award in 1991. That was indeed a rather strange year, since four films were nominated instead of the usual five, were nominated. What’s really strange about it was that three of the four films nominated were choreographed by Ching Siu-Tung, the other two being A Chinese Ghost Story II and The Swordsman.
There’s an explanation given to as why the fighters are flying through the air like in many recent wuxia films. However, it’s done more for laughs and is never all that thrilling.
The Iceman Cometh (1989)
Here’s another that I watched during my recent Best Action Design award binge that I probably should’ve seen earlier, especially considering how much I like Yuen Biao. I guess it has to do with the fact that the only time I saw this film for sale, it cost like $50.00, and I [...]
My School Mate, the Barbarian (2001)
Back in 2001, incidentally the same year this movie came out, I watched a Hong Kong movie called Future Cops (1993). It was about the characters from the “Street Fighter II” video game traveling through time to the modern day to protect a high school kid who’ll become a righteous [...]
After all, it is a proud Hong Kong tradition for a film to be multi-genre, mixing historical facts, heavy melodrama, broad comedy, and over-the-top action all in one film…This one follows the tradition, although it does to an ever more surreal effect. The film is a police thriller in the tradition of Se7en, a drama, an over-the-top martial arts film, and a meditation on Buddhist philosophy with a bit of comedy thrown in for good measure.
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