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Beyond
Hypothermia |
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Year:
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1996 |
Wu Chien-Lien |
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Director:
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Patrick
Leung Pak-Kin |
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Producer:
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Johnnie
To Kei-Fung |
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Cast:
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Wu
Chien-Lien (Ng Sin-Lin), Lau
Ching-Wan, Han Sang-Woo, Shirley Wong |
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The
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Bloody,
stylish and incredibly violent. This ridiculous action thriller
manages to conquer its implausibilites to deliver a satisfying
genre experience. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
In the strangest career move since Geena Davis and Cutthroat
Island, Wu Chien-Lien gets tough and plays a cold-blooded
(literally) assassin who’s tired of the life and longs to
be human. Despite being locked into a destructive relationship
with her Cambodian foster aunt (Shirley Wong), she finds some
small attraction to a simple noodle-maker (Lau Ching Wan)
and starts to make a connection.
But evil Koreans are after her. Led
by a vicious Han Sang-Woo (who possesses that dangerous prettyboy
look), they seek revenge for the murder of their boss. Typically
enough, IT ALL GOES TO HELL.
This film treads on territory previously
mined by Michelle Reis in The Other Side of the Sea and
Anita Yuen in Taste of Killing and Romance. Needless
to say, it’s hard to believe any of these women are cold-blooded
killers, especially the petite and fragile-looking Wu Chien-Lien.
Still, she handles the role with dignity, and Lau Ching-Wan
provides the requisite humanity as her noodle-maker suitor.
Director Patrick Leung does some
fine work and if it weren’t for the sheer ludicrousness of
the plot, he’d have made an absolutely killer flick. As it
is, it’s stylish, blood-soaked, and a worthy watch. Despite
an abrupt and rather dark ending, the film delivers with HK
panache not seen since the days of John Woo. (Kozo 1996) |
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image courtesy
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