Jet Li, Chingmy Yau, Valerie Chow

After failing to save his wife from 'The Doctor', Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the cr...( read more  read more... )own jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor's gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?

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R, 90 min.

Directed by: Corey Yuen, Jing Wong

Release Date: January 1, 1995

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DVD Release Date: July 17, 2001

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  • August 17, 2008
    An unusual Jet Li flick - plenty of action but SOOOO funny as well - co-star Jacky Cheung is a crack - up!!! A great movie with some superb action scenes!!!
  • February 23, 2007
    Like Die Hard if John McTiernan despised Jackie Chan. Overall, a pretty fun action film.
  • November 6, 2009
    High risk is an entertaining action movie.
    Corey Yuen's choreograph is always good, but kinda boring if you watch it too much....
    Simply like to see Jacky Cheung act as a comedian, Jet Li at his top form....
    A HongKong version of Die Hard, this is one of the movie that WongJin...( read more)g didnt screw it up....
    Not bad!
  • April 20, 2009
    Die Hard as done by Wong Jing....the Paul W.S. Anderson of Hong Kong.
  • December 24, 2008
    I remember seeing this @ the midnight showings my local theater always had of HK films back in the glory days BM/D (Before Miramax/Disney). High Risk is about a spoiled rotten action star (played to perfection by Jackie Cheung)- who is completely based on Jackie Chan- who has a b...( read more)odyguard/stuntman (Jet Li, in a role he could play in his sleep). A lot of chuckles are provided by Jing's deliciously merciless presentation of the "Jackie" character, who is a hypocritical rake who doesn't do his own stunts. The movie is less about the plot than about the myriad of explosions, crazy set pieces, and high adrenaline fights. The movie delivers this in good measure. More or less, if you've seen Die Hard, you know the basic premise of this movie. Being a Wong Jing film, it is also notoriously unbalanced and your mileage may vary in terms of what you can stomach in the movies he makes.
  • August 25, 2008
    Seeing all those kids dying on the schoolbus cause of Jet Li, now that's pretty crazy, I've enjoyed every min of it! :)
  • August 17, 2008
    Jing Wong? No thanks.
  • August 17, 2008
    It's no secret that I admire Jet Li, he moves like a God and all fightscenes are perfect, so if the story is a bit lame...I don't care :)
  • August 17, 2008
    What can I say about Meltdown? Well it is a funny and fun action film to watch. I think the filmmaker and crew just had fun with it so I didn't take it too seriously. With a group of friends this is a lot of fun. Funny thing is Jet Li apologized to Jackie Chan for having anyt...( read more)hing to do with this film because of the character that is a mockery of Chan. But still, I like this film and I think people who just want a mindless action film and who loved Die Hard should definetly give this one a shot.
  • August 17, 2008
    I liked it better when it was High Risk. :P This US edit is very meh.

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