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Magnificent Warriors by David Chung
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Chindy Lau, Lowell Lo, Michelle Yeoh, Richard Ng, Tung-Shing Yee Director: David Chung Brand: Fox Cinematographer: Ma Chun Wah Cinematographer: Yun-cheng Lo Editor: Kwok Kuen Chiang Producer: Dickson Poon Producer: John Sham Producer: Linda Kuk Writer: Kan-Cheung Tsang DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Chinese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 91 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Magnificent WarriorsMovie Review: Mrs. Indiana Jones Summary: 5 Stars
Possibly no female action heroine has come closer to achieving Bruce Lee status than Michelle Yeoh. And this is inronic, since she never had any martial arts training until she began her movie career. Almost nobody trained in martial arts specifically for one movie goes on to make more, much less achieve the status of martial arts star, but Michelle Yeoh is a pioneer in that respect. This 1987 World War II adventure makes Michelle into a female Indiana Jones (complete with the whip) who, unlike Indiana Jones himself, is blessed with cute-as-a-button-ness
The baby-faced Michelle plays Fok Ming-Ming, a Chinese pilot/mercenary. She is recruited by the Chinese to head to Northern China to locate Agent 001 (Derek Yee). She must transport the humorous Youda (Lowell Lo), the ruler of Kaal, back to Sourthen China. The Japanese army led by General Toga (Matsui Tesuya), are trying to softne up Youda to Imperealist Japan, hiding the fact that they intend to use Kaal as a site for a new poison gas factory. Ming and Agent 001 agree to help fight off the Japanese invaders, leading to many black-eyes, both Chinese and Japanese.
It's nice to see a Hong Kong movie without much wire-work that still manages to impress with the choreography, and the incredible inpact of landing blows. In her interview on the DVD, Michelle describes the experience of making MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS as having been "possibly the one time when I said I would never do another action film." No surprising, considering that the original three-week shooting schedule in Taiwan extended to three months, and the filmmakers also had to endure a huge earthquake while working. Michelle remembers MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS not as a fun movie experience, but "very challenging."
But what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, and Michelee has made one hell of a kung fu/World War II movie that helped pave the way for her many subsequent roles. And having Tae Kwon Do legend Hwang jang-lee in with you is always a major plus, but his fight with Michelle is probebly the best one he's put out since battling Jackie Chan in DRUNKEN MASTER.
There are many magnificent wariors in the Hong Kong movie industry, and MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS proved Michelle, even in her youth and rookie-ness in martial arts movies, to be one of them.
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