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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Hong Kong style action.....,
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This review is from: Jet Li - Black Mask [DVD] (DVD)
Having just read the previous two reviews by dissapointed customers - I felt I had to redress the balance.Anyone framiliar with, and indeed a fan of, Hong Kong action flics is unlikely to be dissapointed by this offering. It is supposed to be Comic Book style, which together with the cultural oddities will make the plot somewhat surreal, but no more so than many many films of this genre. Indeed, the dubbing has been done better than most, with very few comical mis-translations. Action scenes are as over the top and stylish as you'd normally expect from a good Hong Kong flic, and some of the fight scenes are supurbly choerographed in a way that American films never manage. For my money this kind of throw away action is far more prefferable to the hollywood junk we're normally subjected too, and comes highly recommended to fans of the genre. I certainly prefer Jet Li's Hong Kong films to the hollywood equivilents, and the fight scenes in this film are better than any I've seen in a hollywood made movie (The Matrix? Don't make me laugh...) Well worth considering! :)
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A film so good it could only have been made in Hong Kong,
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Black Mask [DVD] [1996] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Sometimes I wonder why American studios even try to make action-packed martial arts thrillers; they just cannot compete with the great films churned out by Hong Kong studios. Black Mask is an underappreciated, high octane, exhilarating motion picture. How could it not be, as it combines the untouchable martial arts skills of Jet Li, the directorial genius the great Tsui Hark, the fight choreography of the renowned Yuen Woo Ping, the comparatively high Hong Kong budget of ten million dollars, and virtually nonstop action? Granted, the film was given an audio makeover on its way to America, but the dubbing is very well done and the hip-hop soundtrack keeps your blood pumping even when no one is fighting. This is not to say I would have preferred to see the film in its original format, with subtitles, but Black Mask delivers more bang for the buck than anything coming out of American studios. Originally released in 1996 as Hak Hap, this movie made the jump to America three years later, just after Jet Li had made his American debut in Lethal Weapon IV. The film does have a comic-book superhero feel to it, thanks largely to the Kato-like black mask the hero wears, but the storyline is actually quite impressive and easy to follow (although the master plan of the baddies seems a little out-there) . Some reviewers don't seem to care for Black Mask, but I thought it was terrific.Jet Li plays Michael, a former member of an elite, genetically enhanced fighting group known as the 701 Squad; after helping his fellow soldiers escape, he wants nothing more to do with killing. Now adopting the name Simon, he is a mild-mannered librarian perfectly content with his new life. Then the killings start. Someone is offing all of the drug lords in Hong Kong, which doesn't necessarily sound like a bad thing, even to Simon's buddy Inspector "Rock" Sheck (Ching Wan Lau). Still, the detective has to put an end to the carnage and becomes the lead man on the case. Simon realizes that his old 701 Squad is carrying out the attacks, and he takes action in order to save his friend Rock. No one else can stop these bad guys, so Simon dons a black mask to hide his identity, and starts laying the smacketh down from one side of the island to the other. The action never stops, and Tsui Hark does more with ten million dollars than most filmmakers could do with ten times that amount. I'm talking carnage, people - huge explosions, gunfire by the truckload, and incredibly wicked fighting - oftentimes in the most precarious of places. At least half of the police force must get killed as this movie progresses, and the bad guys fare even worse; in one scene, the stiffs are stacked up one on top of the other. Hark is a genius when it comes to presenting incredible action in the most unusual of ways and from the most unconventional of angles, and Jet Li is at his very best, exhibiting the smoothness and rapid-fire movements of the Wushu style he mastered long ago. The supporting characters also bring a lot to the movie, from the delightful love interest Tracy Lee (Karen Mok) to genetically engineered superbabe Cailyn (Francoise Yip) to hard-nosed cop and all-around tough guy "Rock" to the super-evil Commander Hung (Kong Lung) (who, for reasons I can't explain, dresses like Ozzy Osbourne). With a greater than average gore quotient, Black Mask has everything I want in a martial arts film.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The best modern day Jet Li film!!!!!!,
This review is from: Jet Li - Black Mask [DVD] (DVD)
The black mask is one of Jet Li's modern day films. It is not as quick and tricky as the once upon a time in china films but is still a great film with great martial arts fights and can give a different view of jet Li as his other films are not like this one at all in terms of the story line.The film is set in Hong Kong where Jet's character has broken out of a gang who have had all thier nerves destroyed to make them ultimate fighters. Jet then moves to Hong Kong to live a normal life until the gang start commiting crimes involving drugs. Jet has to stop them but keep his identity safe as well and becomes a modern day kato (Bruce Lee, Green hornet) called the black mask to stop the gang commiting more evil crimes. This film is worth buying, and even more so if you are a Jet Li fan, the stunts in the film are fantastic.
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