The Heroic Trio
Directed by:
Kei-fung ToScreenplay:
Sandy ShawComposer:
William Wai-Lap WuCast:
Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Anthony Wong, Damian Lau, Shi-Kwan Yen, Keith Siu-Kei Lee, Mimi Chu, Yat-Fei Wong, Philip Keung, Louis Yuen (more)VOD (3)
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With this outrageously entertaining cult favorite, director Johnnie To and his lineup of legendary stars gave Hong Kong cinema something new: its own homegrown superhero cinematic universe. Thief Catcher (Maggie Cheung), Wonder Woman (Anita Mui), and Invisible Girl (Michelle Yeoh) are kick-ass crusaders who must overcome their dark pasts in order to defeat an evil, baby-snatching eunuch terrorizing the city. Eye-popping motorcycle stunts, bloodthirsty undead, cannibal infants, and kinetically choreographed wirework are all part of the wall-to-wall delirium in this irresistible showcase for three of the coolest women warriors ever to hit the screen. (Criterion)
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Three incredibly sexy Chinese women, led by my favourite Michelle Yeoh, in cheesy movie sets (at times it looks like a Brno TV studios fairy-tale), with second-hand music, and perhaps only the notorious "Happy, Happy, Halloween" theme accompanying one of the superheroines. A bit of a bizarre Hong Kong answer to the comic book movies of the Hollywood dream factory, with the occasional flying duel a la Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, some severed fingers and heads, which you won't see in Marvel movies, as well as dying kids and a walking skeleton with leftover meat. The whole thing is kind of overblown and exaggerated, but in a nice, rather amusing way.
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