Early Chow Yun-Fat martial-arts actioner. He's the most well known star in the film but he plays second fiddle to Leung Kar-Yan who plays a postman leading a small band of misfits on a treacherous journey to deliver a secret cargo to a power hungry warlord. It's a fairly… More
Early Chow Yun-Fat martial-arts actioner. He's the most well known star in the film but he plays second fiddle to Leung Kar-Yan who plays a postman leading a small band of misfits on a treacherous journey to deliver a secret cargo to a power hungry warlord. It's a fairly straight forward story which is littered with silly and ludicrous moments typical of these types of films, but it's a pretty eventful film with a fight scene sporadically springing up almost every 5 minutes out of nowhere. But these action scenes are over too quickly and the movie really needed a big set piece to break up the monotonous routine of the small skirmishes. There's a couple of memorable and unique moments along the way - Chow Yun-Fat using martial-arts for a start - but this is far from a great film, but an entertaining one none-the-less. Bizarrely director Ronny Yu ended up in Hollywood directing horror flicks like "The Bride of Chucky" and "Freddy Vs. Jason".
