My Father is a Hero

My Father is a Hero     ASIN 6305131422     Medium Count 1     Medium Blu-ray     Release Date 9/24/1998     Group Glass Frame     Link [+]     UPC 601643408040     EAN 9786305131427     DVD Layers 1     DVD Sides 1     Picture Format Letterbox     DVD Region 2     Running Time 105     Studio Image Entertainment     Theatrical Date 12/31/1994     Audience Rating R (Restricted)     Cast Chou, Collin / Dunbar, Mary Ellen / (II), Henry Fong / Fu, Bonnie / Graf, David     Format Color / DVD-Video / Letterboxed / Widescreen / NTSC     Language Cantonese (Dolby Digital 5.1) / Mandarin Chinese (Dolby Digital 5.1) / English (Subtitled)     ISBN 6305131422     Date Imported 1/12/2024     List Price $0     Rating 4.54.54.54.54.5     Genre Martial Arts     Copy Count 1     Tag Hong Kong     IMDb Rating 0      

Amazon.com Probably only the Hong Kong film industry could have produced this bizarre mixture of head-kicking martial arts action and daddy-and-me sentimentality. Veteran HK action director Cory Yuen (Fong Sai Yuk), who staged Jet Li's fight sequences in Lethal Weapon 4, steers the acrobatic Mainlander through a heart-tugging crime saga about a cop who has gone so far undercover that everyone, including his troubled son, thinks he's actually a bad guy. Pop-singing actress Anita Mui (Rouge) is a policewoman from Hong Kong who befriends and protects the kid until father and son reconcile and team up against the crooks. The action episodes, which were performed without stunt doubles or wires, are eye-popping wonders, and the kid, Tze Miu, is a true prodigy. (Sensitive adults may be horrified by some of junior's more extreme stunt work.) The tough-guy emotionalism is often shamelessly effective. But Yuen is a by-the-numbers journeyman director, and for the most part this a flat, square, unimaginative exercise. --David Chute