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FATAL CONTACT (HK)

 ABOUT THE MOVIE

Genre: Action
Starring: Wu Jing, Ronald Cheng, Miki Yeung, Eddie Cheung, Lam Suet, Andy On, Timmy Hung, Ken Lo
Director: Dennis Law
Rating: NC16 (Some Violence)
Year Made: 2006

 


SPECIAL FEATURES


- Trailers


 


TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Languages: Chinese & Cantonese
Subtitles: Chinese & English
Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Running Time: 1 hr 46 mins
Region Code: 3
Distributor: Scorpio East

 

 


SYNOPSIS :
 

Gao Gang (Wu Jing) is a renowned figure in underground boxing. He gets involved in several fierce challenges with his foe, Brother Xin. The underground boxing team leader (Ronald Cheng), who usually retains a low profile is actually highly skilled and trains Gang to win a strong opponent. However, Gang is later forced by Hao Qiang (Eddie Cheung) to fix a match by losing to a weak opponent. Gang becomes severely injured as a result...

MOVIE REVIEW :

It's hard to decide if director Dennis Law wants to make "Fatal Contact" an all-out action flick or a tragic love story or a comedic affair. Law who also co-wrote this movie apparently incorporated all these elements into it thus ruining a potentially good popcorn movie.

Wu Jing who hails from the prestigious Beijing Wushu Academy in real-life plays Gang, a member of an opera troupe who is being coerced into underground boxing for the sake of hard cash. Little does he know that he's falling into a trap more deadly than the matches. And this is the part where the plot starts to spiral downwards.

The numerous excellent fight sequences choreographed by Nicky Li (from Jackie Chan's stunt man group) append with Wu Jing's martial arts background gives it a very energetic raw edge. Jing's career has not been thrown into the limelight even though this young lad has appeared in notable productions such as Tsui Hark's "Zu Warriors" and "SPL".

What's missing is definitely a good script to go with Jing's deadly kicks. And to make things worse, can someone enlighten me why Ronald Cheng is here as a concealed, highly skilled martial arts practitioner?


SPECIAL FEATURES :

Comes with nothing but a truckload of trailers including "A Battle of Wits", "Exiled", "One Last Dance" and the Chinese and Cantonese trailers of "Fatal Contact".

AUDIO/VISUAL :

The good thing about the audio is it comes equipped with both the original Cantonese track and the horribly dubbed Chinese version. At least, you got the choice to choose between the two of them. As it comes only in fullscreen version, some of the shots during the fighting sequences are unfortunately impaired by the format which might torment your viewing enjoyment.

MOVIE RATING :

DVD RATING :

Review by Linus Tee

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This review is made possible with the kind support from Scorpio East


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