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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Forget the artsy fartsy wire-fu movies so popular today and consider this for your collection. Flashpoint is a hard hitting Hong Kong movie starring Donnie Yen and Collin Chou (Seraph in the Matrix Sequels) as cop and criminal. Donnie being the Cop and Collin being the criminal. This being a martial arts action flick and all, you'll not need me to explain the rest. Needless to say this movie contains many fights.
First lets get the cons out of the way. Like many chinese films this is a little too melodramatic at times. You know the score, somebody dies, sad music, emotions run high, revenge enseus blah blah blah. These movies always have uncomfortably cheesy sad scenes. The dialogue (no doubt partly due to subtitles) is, as usual, quite unsubtle. We can forgive these things because the Chinese seem to have a knack for making every frame of a movie completely stunning to look at. In this sense, the rest of the world are playing catch up. Flashpoint has some stunning views of the sprawling Hong Kong.
Speeking of sprawling, lets get to the important bit. The fights. You should be well aware that Donnie Yen is no joke when it comes to fisticuffs. He's the real deal. The fights in this movie rank among the best. In fact the final fight scene in this movie is second only to Bruce Lee's duel with Kareem Abdul Jabar (I'm talking about the full fight which can only be seen in Bruce Lee - A Warriors Journey which you'll find on Enter The Dragon - Special Edition). Like that epic brawl, this fight contains not just your usual Chinese mentalism but also moves your very likely to see in a real match. Moves like the triangle choke (my fave), arm bar, german suplex, Thai clinch, even down to the essential tool, the sprawl. If you're a fan of martial arts flicks and of mma then this is a must.
First lets get the cons out of the way. Like many chinese films this is a little too melodramatic at times. You know the score, somebody dies, sad music, emotions run high, revenge enseus blah blah blah. These movies always have uncomfortably cheesy sad scenes. The dialogue (no doubt partly due to subtitles) is, as usual, quite unsubtle. We can forgive these things because the Chinese seem to have a knack for making every frame of a movie completely stunning to look at. In this sense, the rest of the world are playing catch up. Flashpoint has some stunning views of the sprawling Hong Kong.
Speeking of sprawling, lets get to the important bit. The fights. You should be well aware that Donnie Yen is no joke when it comes to fisticuffs. He's the real deal. The fights in this movie rank among the best. In fact the final fight scene in this movie is second only to Bruce Lee's duel with Kareem Abdul Jabar (I'm talking about the full fight which can only be seen in Bruce Lee - A Warriors Journey which you'll find on Enter The Dragon - Special Edition). Like that epic brawl, this fight contains not just your usual Chinese mentalism but also moves your very likely to see in a real match. Moves like the triangle choke (my fave), arm bar, german suplex, Thai clinch, even down to the essential tool, the sprawl. If you're a fan of martial arts flicks and of mma then this is a must.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Here's my quick little review of Flashpoint Starring Donnie Yen - hope it's helpful!
THE GOOD:
- Awesome, and often, full contact fights!
- Some nice tense build ups that are always paid off explosively, if not too surprisingly.
- The last fight is pure, crunchy, magnificently choreographed, violence.
- Some real brutal stuff in here, at times a little more shocking than I was expecting - but I like being surprised. What it lacked in originality of story it made up for in heavy thumps and body shattering carnage.
- Back to basics martial arts action mixed perfectly with cool as a cucumber gunplay.
- The mixed martial arts used by Donnie Yen in this film are absolutely stunning. He bounds around the screen with blazing gusto, and slithers round the bad guys like a boa constrictor in full on `death grip' mode. Make no mistake this is serious athleticism like you read about.
- Suitable extras.
- Did I mention Donnie is a complete beast in this?
THE BAD:
- Why they kept popping up above the long grass to shoot at each other in the big gunfight scene is beyond me. Surely they could have just shot through the grass? I dunno seemed a big silly to me.
- Hardly a head scratcher of a story: it's a pretty much straight forward, tension building, revenge yarn with suitably nutty bad guys who you'll be praying to greet the feet(oh and they do!) before the whole thing is over. However this is not really a bad point unless you go in expecting haute cinema.
THE CONCLUSION:
In many ways a straight forward action revenge flick but also, in many ways, a rip-roaring return to the old school. What you basically get here is pure, untainted, martial arts by a man who knows exactly what he's doing, a well paced, tension filled, action drenched, script that thunders along and a set of characters that are easy to get on board with and cheer along, or abhor and hiss at. Buy it now and enjoy!
THE GOOD:
- Awesome, and often, full contact fights!
- Some nice tense build ups that are always paid off explosively, if not too surprisingly.
- The last fight is pure, crunchy, magnificently choreographed, violence.
- Some real brutal stuff in here, at times a little more shocking than I was expecting - but I like being surprised. What it lacked in originality of story it made up for in heavy thumps and body shattering carnage.
- Back to basics martial arts action mixed perfectly with cool as a cucumber gunplay.
- The mixed martial arts used by Donnie Yen in this film are absolutely stunning. He bounds around the screen with blazing gusto, and slithers round the bad guys like a boa constrictor in full on `death grip' mode. Make no mistake this is serious athleticism like you read about.
- Suitable extras.
- Did I mention Donnie is a complete beast in this?
THE BAD:
- Why they kept popping up above the long grass to shoot at each other in the big gunfight scene is beyond me. Surely they could have just shot through the grass? I dunno seemed a big silly to me.
- Hardly a head scratcher of a story: it's a pretty much straight forward, tension building, revenge yarn with suitably nutty bad guys who you'll be praying to greet the feet(oh and they do!) before the whole thing is over. However this is not really a bad point unless you go in expecting haute cinema.
THE CONCLUSION:
In many ways a straight forward action revenge flick but also, in many ways, a rip-roaring return to the old school. What you basically get here is pure, untainted, martial arts by a man who knows exactly what he's doing, a well paced, tension filled, action drenched, script that thunders along and a set of characters that are easy to get on board with and cheer along, or abhor and hiss at. Buy it now and enjoy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Reuniting Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip after the superb SPL/KillZone - and originally intended as a prequel before rights problems intruded - Flash Point is disappointingly average at best. This time Yen's cop with anger management problems is trying to nail a trio of vicious Vietnamese smugglers, especially after they cripple undercover cop Louis Koo, but even at less than an hour-and-a-half the thin plot is relentlessly formulaic and by the numbers. It's not helped by the fact that it lacks SPL's much stronger characterisation and fatalistic mood, and while the action is rather more evenly distributed than in its predecessor, little of it stands out. Even the final extended showdown between Yen and Collin Chou feels disappointing: it may be physically gruelling, but the choreography isn't as outstanding and there's a lot less involvement in the characters doing the fighting. There's some tension with a bomb in a chicken (cooked, not live) that provides the film's most memorable sequence, but for the most part this is pretty much production-line B-movie fodder given A-movie production values: watchable but resolutely unremarkable.
Decent extras on the 2-disc set, though - 4 deleted scenes, 4 featurettes (two of them Easter Eggs on the trailer and deleted scenes menus), music promo, 4 TV spots and trailer.
Decent extras on the 2-disc set, though - 4 deleted scenes, 4 featurettes (two of them Easter Eggs on the trailer and deleted scenes menus), music promo, 4 TV spots and trailer.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Published 1 month ago by A. Thomson
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Flashpoint: Marks one of Donnie Yen's BEST!
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Published 15 months ago by Joeycharmed
It's a martial arts film, what more could you want!?!
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Published 20 months ago by The Reviewer
Boring and unimaginative
With only one reasonable fight scene (at the very end of the film) this was a real disappointment. Having recently watched IP Man I expected a modern film with Donnie Yen to pack... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by Jonathan P. Stansfield
Flashpoint
I had actually forgot how great Donnie Yen was until I watched this movie. His fight sequences truly are amazing and very brutal. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2010 by A. J. Harrison
Excellent original action sequences.
As with all Donnie Yen films the action in this film is excellent and extremly well choreographed. The actual fight scenes show Donnie's insight into the way martial arts are... Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2010 by John A. Mitchell
Flashpoint
Great action movie. Sub titles not too intrusive. Would recommend if you like foreign action movies
Published on 25 Oct 2009 by Ann Bessant
Great HK action flick!
Donnie Yen once again shows off his amazing talents in Flashpoint, a great HK action movie. For the casual viewer it might take a bit too long for the action to get going but the... Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2009 by Corstiaans
Best martial arts movie in years
Flash Point does two things well. It sets up the villains as not only bad guys, but sadistic, nasty, brutish bad guys for whom you have absolutely no sympathy and every desire to... Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2008 by Daiho
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