Jun 05 2008
Flash Point
Donnie Yen is the muthafucka of muthafuckas…
He’s the Asian Charles Bronson…
In the supplements, Colin Chou’s feelings on the situation pretty much sum up how this film is…and how I feel about it…
He told Yen that after so many years (like 7 or something like that) of making Hollywood films, then coming back home for Flash Point, he doesn’t think he’ll be able to handle another Hong Kong action film…
American Action films are just so much easier…
And indeed they are…
The first chunk of the movie is enjoyable enough…
It sets everything up nicely and makes the ending all the more worthwhile…
It’s a fun, and cool enough action film at that point, which looks just as good (or better) than most of it’s American contemporaries…
With some sweet fucking scenes…
But then something happens…
With I don’t know, 40 minutes or so left, there’s a scene in a hospital elevator…at that point the film doesn’t let up till the end…
And it’s hands downs some of the coolest and most satisfying action I’ve seen in a long time…
You know how a lot of peeps enjoyed the down and dirty, rough and tumble, hard hitting fights of Casino Royale…
Everything had an impact…and it felt real…but it wasn’t too shaky cammed that you couldn’t make out what was happening…
Now imagine that type of action done with the actual people who create that kind of action…
I’m not knocking somebody like Daniel Craig, who was beyond adequate enough in those types of scenes…
But I’m talking about a muthafuckin’ Donnie Yen…
And Colin Chou…
The last 40 minutes just has so many different parts of cool and bad ass…there’s scene upon scene…foot chase…fight scene…shoot out…sniper rifles…head shots…slo-mo gun tosses through the air during a fire fight…bullets being thrown to people through the air…bullets being shot out of air…fight scene…FIGHT SCENE!!!
The film climaxes with Donnie Yen and Colin Chou beating the fuck out of each other…
And it’s not just your regular martial arts kung fu kicks and punches…
Yen has taken years of MMA research and incorporated a fuckload of ways to beat you up…
And I must say he delivers a better, and much more devastating suplex than most professional wrestlers…
There’s this one point, after a foot chase, that within just a few frames you have feelings of shock, disgust, and pure pants wetting excitement…
At one point, The Yen catches the guy he’s chasing at some sort of outdoor cafe/market thing.
The Yen pulls his gun…
The dude picks up some little girl and holds her upside down…
The Yen tosses his gun to the side…
The dude proceeds to toss the little girl aside…a few feet through the air aside…
I must admit, I let out a chuckle…cause you don’t usually see that in the Hollywood films…
But then she crashes down into the pavement…and she gets fucked up…and that’s where a bit of disgust (along with a different sort of shock) kicks in briefly…cause you definitely don’t see that in Hollywood films…not often at least…
Then…
The Yen turns around…and he stares this fucker down…and you just know that was the last mistake that dude will ever make…
The Yen proceeds to beat the guy to death with his fists full of fuck you…
I can’t emphasize enough how much fun I had watching this thing…
If this movie was any better I’d be bleeding…
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