Paradox 4K 2017 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

A 16-year-old Chinese tourist is kidnapped in Pattaya. Her father, a police negotiator from Hong Kong, goes in search of his daughter and involves local detectives, a Thai and a Chinese, in the investigation. It soon becomes apparent that the kidnapping is directly linked to the fact that Bangkok's leading mayoral candidate urgently needs a donor heart for transplant.

Review 4K Movie

The daughter of a Hong Kong policeman goes missing in Thailand. Going on a search and teaming up with local cops, the hero finds himself in the very core of the war of local criminal groups.

From the enumeration of the creators of the picture can fall into orgasmic trembling. At the helm is the legendary Wilson Yip, on whose account the cult trilogy “Ip Man”, as well as smash hits with Donnie Yen “Hot Spot”, “Dragon and Tiger Gate” and the first “S.P.L.”. Chin Pow Soi, the director of the sequel, “Freeway,” “Assassins” and “The Monkey King,” is producing the picture. Fight scenes put the icon of the genre Sammo Hong. It would seem that the option is a win-win and the audience is waiting for a hurricane action of unprecedented power. In fact, everything is somewhat different.

Let's start with the fact that the prefix “Stars of Destiny” added to the picture shortly before the premiere, although structurally the tape and uses elements of the cycle. The plot worked on the classic and worked out scheme of rail action movie with all the “movie” conventions, Whip tells a dramatic story is not so much about the fierce struggle of a good guy with the bad, and more about karma and consequences. The picture harnesses a rather leisurely pace, giving the viewer a half-hour prelude of character introductions framed by beautiful camerawork. However, as soon as the first confrontation happens, you can't exhale. The fights are staged spectacularly, hard and fiercely, though I don't think the creators managed to take the bar of the reference “The Raid” and the same “Hot Spot”. In some places, the use of cables is also striking.

But there are no complaints about the actors' work. Louis Koo confidently soliloquizes on the screen, attracting all the viewer's attention to himself. Rage, pain, despair, toughness - in the whole gamut of emotions you believe unconditionally. The other partners of Luis in the person of Wu Yue (“Edge”, “Bright Future 2018”, “God of War”, dorama “Journey to the West”), villain-fighter Chris Collins (“Future Police”, “War of the Wolves”, “Keep Calm and Be a Superstar”) and Tony Jha harmoniously complement the overall picture and demonstrate the highest pilotage in sparring. As always, Gordon Lam as a cynical and cold-blooded “man with a plan” is good.

Summarizing: certainly, fans of “hand-to-hand” tape will deliver a lot of pleasant moments. The mastery of the coryphees can not be written off. And coupled with a note of drama, we get a strong and good representative of the genre, although not without nuances.