"The Beast
Stalker" - Nicholas Tse Thriller Opens Nov.
27
Posted by HKMW on October 25th, 2008
THE
BEAST STALKER is a super-charged major action
drama brought to you by Emperor Motion Pictures
Limited. Directed by award-winning Dante
Lam (Beast Cops, The Twins
Effect) and featuring the top-notch and sometimes
death-defying talents of Nicholas Tse,
Jingchu Zhang and Nick
Cheung
in addition to a cast of first-rate actors,
at a tremendous budget of HK$22 million.
Both Nicholas Tse and Nick Cheung have given powerful
and memorable performances in The Beast Stalker.
Nicholas Tse plays a rough and vehement character,
exuding a full-fledged virility. Nick Cheung’s character
is played as a malicious introvert, cold-blooded and
cruel. And Jingchu Zhang displays an entirely new
dimension in her acting skills, completely metamorphosed
from her Protégé days.
Director Dante Lam has always shown his strength in
creating and masterfully manipulating major scenes.
Combining the cacophony of sights and sounds of Hong
Kong’s busy street scenes with scores of non-stop fight
scenes and death-defying performances by numerous
actors, including a scene with Nicholas Tse hanging off
the 7th floor of a building in the middle of crowded
Mong Kok and another with the stars running along
congested streets, The Beast Stalker caused some
disturbances during its production. [EMG]
Sammi Cheng and Eason Chan in
"Lady Cop & Papa Crook"
Posted by HKMW on October 25th, 2008
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Lady
Cop & Papa Crook (Synopsis): John
Fok (Eason Chan) is the kingpin
of illegal red oil in Greater China. When an oil
tanker explodes accidentally, he becomes the focus
of investigation by Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese
police and is forced to halt his business to wait things out. While his
business rivals start closing in, a member of his
household is planning to betray him. On the
surface, John seems totally helpless, but in reality,
he's been staging a major comeback for months.
Just as he is finally ready to turn his fortune
around, however, his only son is kidnapped!
Senior Inspector Molline
Szeto (Sammi
Cheng) is the rising star in
the police force, who is well praised for busting
crime with her characteristic sangfroid and
precision. However, in matters of love, she is
totally at wit's end. After dating the same man for
more than ten years with no likely
prospect of an imminent wedding, she determines to
cut the knot once and for all,
before she becomes too old for childbirth. Poised
at the crossroad of her life, she is
thrilled to be assigned to investigate the
kidnap of John's son.
John dispatches his whole
gang to ferret out his son's whereabouts, only to find out that his rivals are
redeploying people in China to assail
him. Just when he is about to order an
all-out fightback, Molline suddenly arrives with her team to
garrison at his house. Spurning her
at first, he soon finds her critical analysis of
the situation at hand both apt and useful. An unlikely cooperation
between cops and crooks thus ensues, leading to conflicts
and clashes galore at every step till
the very end. [Media Asia]
"The Warlords" - Jet
Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Posted by HKMW on October 25th, 2008
The
Warlords (Synopsis):
It's the mid-19th century, one
of the darkest periods of Chinese history. The country
is suffering under the rule of the corrupt Manchus who
invaded China from the North and established the
country's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Natural
disasters are wreaking havoc in the countryside, and in
the midst of this chaos, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,
one of the strongest rebel groups ever to rise up in
China, is overrunning the country and staging battles
with the Qing army threatening the Dragon
throne.
When Ma first met the rough-and-ready bandit,
Cao Erhu (Andy
Lau) and his trusted lieutenant Zhang
Wenxiang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), he had not an inkling that
they will forever change his life. Cao, the charismatic
leader of a band of bandits, bonded with the dark,
sophisticated Ma when this stranger saved his life. At
Zhang’s urging, the three swear blood brotherhood. Ma
had a dream— he wants to rid China of both the rebels
and the corrupt Qing officials. Ma convinces Cao and
Zhang on this noble quest and the trio soon engages in
many dangerous battles and win. With the help of Cao and
his men, Ma manages to squelch the rebels and rises
through the ranks. Success has the power to corrupt—Ma
soon became obsessed with power.
Cao and
Zhang return to their native village, and Cao reunites
for an evening with his beautiful wife Lian (Xu
Jinglei). But when she and Ma look at each other for the
first time, the chemistry is overwhelming; and the seed
of betrayal is sown. Ma must remove the one obstacle
standing between him and the loyalty of the
bandit-soldiers and the beautiful Lian. [Media Asia]
"Triangle" (2007) - Tsui Hark, Ringo
Lam and Johnnie To Posted by HKMW
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Triangle (Official
Synopsis):
Life has not been kind to SAM
(Simon Yam), FAI
(Louis Koo) and MOK (Sun
Hong Lei
) as they
struggle to make ends meet. Routine visits to bars
seem to be their only way out of miseries.
Until a stormy evening when a mysterious old
man appears before them with a tip: An ancient
treasure is buried under the high-security
Legislative Building. All they have to do is sneak
in and retrieve it; if they believe in his
story.
Sam, Fai and Mok agree to make a run for the
treasure to test their fate. What they uncover is
beyond anything they expected: An ancient coffin
containing a ceremonial robe made of gold!
According to Mok, who deals antiques, the robe
is worth millions. The thought of getting rich
puts the three men's friendship to test, as their
minds are beset by greed, fear and
suspicion...
The treasure also attracts
the attention of others. LING (Kelly
Lin), whose marriage with Sam is on
the verge of collapse, plans to steal the robe and
run away with her lover WEN (Lam
Ka Tung
). Even Mainland hit men want a piece of the
action.
All eyes are set on the treasure. Whoever will
go to the extreme will become its owner. Between
survival, wealth and friendship, Sam, Fai and Mok
will ultimately have to make a choice…[Media
Asia]
