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Summary: Great Action...... BAD DVD
Review: High Risk is an action packed movie. Not like anything Hollywood has to offer. This is real HK action. Jet Li plays the role of a Stunt-double/ Bodyguard to Jacky Cheung. The first part of the movie really sets the pace of the rest of the film with explosive action. There are some great fight clips and lots of comedy. This is not a Hollywood movie so the effects are not perfect. One of the coolest clips was of the car in the elevator.The DVD had no options other than the choice of Cantonese or Mandarin it did not even have a menu. Further more the subtitles where small and hard to read and where fixed English and Chinese, so you could not turn them off if you wanted. Other than that the picture quality was Great. (I took of 2 stars for the lack of options and the hard to read subtitles)
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Summary: Jackie Chan, Jet Li need I say more.
Review: High Risk is very similar to Die Hard, but it has a twist of humor uncommon in action flicks. I will admit it was unrealistic, but Jet Li and Jackie Chan both lived up to their reputations in this performance. The thing that makes the movie enjoyable is that it does not take itself seriously.
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Summary: Die Hard in the original Cantonese
Review: I am reviewing the movie as I saw it in the theaters so I can not vouch for any loss of quality that will happen when it gets transferred to video. Knowing that Tai Seng is probably handling it, there is probably a couple of stars that you want to mentally calculate off of this review. This movie is Diehard with Jackie Cheung playing Jackie Chan (and he really is a decent actor in his own right, but he's usually playing brooding sad roles. He's definitely not a Bruce Le, Bruce Li, Bruce Lai, etc.) and stealing the movie out from underneath Jet Li's oh-so-serious cop with a mission. His moves are evil, his imitation is over the top. He's just kinetic and you even like him when he's whining. Jet Li for the most part is stuck playing the straight man which some times works but most of the time he looks lost (Bodyguard from Beijing, Lethal Weapon 4) In this movie he has enough of a smoldering vibe going that you don't mind that he's a bit stiff. Besides Jackie Cheung, the villains are beautifully campy and evil, especially in the piano playing scene. THe plotline is DieHard, except I don't remember Bruce Willis ever running over the villains with a car that was taken up the elevator. Actually the plot is Die Hard if there was no semblence of reality in Die Hard, which is beautiful, because one of the fun things about Hong Kong action movies is that they don't care that it doesn't make sense. American action movies are wildly contrived to find some semblence of believability like the hero running out of bullets every so often, or a flesh wound that incapacitates him for a second. Hong Kong movies don't care. This is a fun movie and one of the better Jet Li movies out there. Buy it now before someone dubs it.
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Summary: I preferred High Risk!
Review: I bought this DVD hoping it would have a subtitle option (English subtitles w original soundtrack), but it doesn't. I also own a video of the original movie, "High Risk," which I find more entertaining. The dubbed dialogue on the DVD is REALLY silly (as is the movie, which is OK). . .a few of the lines are funnier than the original, but so many hilarious lines are changed (to only marginally funny). Jacky Cheung's real voice is way funnier than the dubbed one. PLUS annoying rap soundtrack on the dubbed version, ugh.
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Summary: Rollicking send up of Jackie Chan and homage to Die Hard.
Review: I just finished watching this movie and I have to say it was money well spent. The best description of High Risk would be a homage to Die Hard and a parody of Jackie Chan. Jet Li plays a former bomb squad commander who's last run in with the villain cost him his family. He has since has become the double and bodyguard of Frankie, a Kung Fu superstar. Frankie is a cowardly, boozing, womanizer who has forgotten how he achieved his stardom. Various elements play like Die Hard scenes including the characters and dialog. Mixed in with this are other subplots and some original scenes (at least to me). I won't spoil them by elaborating. Suffice to say, High Risk is an excellent blend of comedy, action (both martial arts and gunplay) and suspense with some romance thrown in. This movie does not take itself too seriously. Sometimes it parodies the martial arts genre with its voices, dialog and facial expressions! On the down side, the subtitles leave something to be desired, blending into the background and being poorly translated on occasion. The disc has no features, just different subtitles. The video quality is average, audio Dolby Digital 2.0/Pro-Logic. Any fan of Jet Li, Hong Kong films or action in general will enjoy this a lot. There is little if any wire Fu.
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Summary: Funny, and Crazy
Review: i liked the martial arts the most in this movie, I can say that Jet Li is one of my favorite martial Artists. this is a basic Chinese rip off of Die hard, but it's still cool...don't forget funny as well.
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Summary: pretty good...
Review: I saw this movie a while back...I really liked it. The fight scenes were awsome, When I first this guy 3 years ago. I was saying...It would be awsome if he stared in an American movie.
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Summary: "That crazy ..."
Review: If you like to laugh buy this movie today. But make sure you buy the dubbed version on Columbia TriStar DVD. Great quality. Don't listen to anyone who says this is a Die Hard rip-off. I mean how many movies are there anyway about terrorists who take over a building? About 53, I think. Movie makers are always plagiarizing one another. So what! Find something more original to complain about. MELTDOWN ROCKS!
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Summary: Isn't this just the movie High Risk
Review: Isn't this just the movie High Risk, by reading the comments from everybody I'm just wondering if this isn't just it, well if it is this is a piece of crap, compared to some of his other movies, Such as: Fong Sai Yuk, Fist of legend, My father is a hero etc. don't waste your time on this movie, it isn't worth it!!
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Summary: Jet's HK career was dying down
Review: It seems as if there was nothing better for Jet to do than star in this mediocre action movies. It just doesn't fit him. If you're a fan, and want to see this just to see it, go ahead, but don't expect much.
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