Hunt The Wicked

Suiqiang Huo is going really strong, but he hasn't topped Blind War for me yet. He had pretty big ambitions here, as he has two of the biggest Chinese martial arts stars in top form at the moment. Another collaboration with Andy On, who here plays a bad guy searching for drugs seized by the police, and Miu Tse, who recently excelled as a blind bounty hunter in Swordsman, here playing a police officer. It was tempting to have a clash of two big martial arts stars and it was supposed to be the event of the year. Unfortunately, I don't share the enthusiasm. It's not bad, there are some good moments (their fight is really good), but the plot is really too simple, the shootouts don't impress me much and the CGI didn't do much for me either, plus the roles are switched at the end and I didn't like what the director did with the characters in the final act. Too bad, he should have stayed more down to earth and focused only on the fights and it would have been a blast. PS: the switchblade was cool imho. 6/10. (03/25/2024)