Cast Member: Zhang Hanyu
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A World Without Thieves
Jun 28, 2015This is a lustrous production that flatters to deceive, aiming for the intellect, but eventually preferring to show empty spectacle and supposed depth.
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Assembly
Feb 18, 2015A personal story told on a grand scale ‘Assembly’ is as good as war flicks get, finding a near perfect balance between a personal journey and large scale combat.
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Look For A Star
Apr 13, 2015‘Look For A Star’ will be welcomed by the legions of Andy Lau fans who are keen for the star to return to a genre he dominated at the end of the century.
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Manhunt
Jul 16, 2018Not the return to modern action many a Woo fan may have hoped for but fun in fits and starts if you can forgive its flaws.
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Operation Mekong
Jul 1, 2017Lam has made better films but, along with Benny Chan, he is at the forefront of Hong Kong action in terms of delivering large scale spectacle.
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Operation Red Sea
Nov 2, 2018It’s big, it’s brash and in several sequences surprisingly gory but ‘Operation Red Sea’ is big screen, blockbusting action done well.
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Special ID
Jun 1, 2015After a surge of period and fantasy styled films, Donnie Yen returns to modern day cop action territory in the somewhat schlocky but no less entertaining ‘Special ID’.
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The Captain
Apr 7, 2020Had ‘The Captain’ focused on the drama on the plane and not felt the need to flick back-and-forth to dull secondary characters, it might have brought the true story to the screen with aplomb.
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The Great Wall
Feb 28, 2017‘The Great Wall’ packs in a monster amount of large scale action as Damon, Jing et al take on the horde of monsters in ever increasingly elaborate ways.
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White Vengeance
Jun 26, 2015‘White Vengeance’ – in keeping with the generic expectations of recent years – has big, bruising conflict aplenty and it’s those moments that tend to have the greatest impact.