The Man from Hong Kong is an Australian action film and stars Jimmy Wang Yu and Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong who comes to Sydney to extradite one of his own, but when he is assassinated, Leng blows the place Sky High to find out who's responsible.
Clearly inspired by the success of the James Bond series, Writer-Director Brian Trenchard-Smith has created essentially an Australian equivalent of a Bond film, complete with the title song (Sky High by Jigsaw) the pre credit action sequence, multiple action scenes which are just outstanding to watch plus the cherries of both a beautiful heroine and a nasty villain funnily enough played by one time 007 George Lazenby, A coincidence; surely not.
But back to the stunt scenes, which as I said before are outstandingly well made and boy does everyone involve cop a whack, even the film's director who appears in a small role, a pity that with all of the computer graphics directors have at their disposal these days, on screen action simply isn't as good as what's in this movie, no doubt due to the ease of just doing it all on a blue screen or green screen stage rather than going out and doing it all for real and in camera.
But hey, apart from that, go check this film out, it's a knock out in more ways than one with a real sense of energy and excitement, 4 and a half out of 5.
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