Sentences with phrase «kong as an action star»

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Irma Vep (1996) channels the glamour of Hong Kong action movies, as represented by the film's star Maggie Cheung; but it also looks back to early French cinema and the serials of Louis Feuillade.

The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was preceded into the present by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.

Director / star Jiang Wen has crafted a modern take on the wild Hong Kong action films of the eighties heyday, with all the energy, dotty humor, broad performances, and mad plot twists, and drops himself in the center as the eye of calm at the center of the chaos.

«The Big Hit» is a Hong Kong action comedy, directed by Che - Kirk Wong («Crime Story»), starring an American cast and written by Ben Ramsey, an American who has apparently done as much time in the video stores as Quentin Tarantino.

Their rebel band is fleshed out by Riz Ahmed, as a daring pilot, Jiang Wen as a kind of hit - man, and celebrated Hong Kong action star (and martial artist) Donnie Yen as a sightless warrior who knows the Force is with him.

Wong Kar Wai as usual invited different guest stars, this time was no exception with Julian Cheung Chi - lam, Berg Ng Ting Yip, Lo Hoi Pang, Xiao Shenyang, action director Yuen Woo - Ping, Zhao Benshan, Tsui Kam Kong, Lo Mang.

Bollywood star Deepika Padukone plays Serena, a knife - wielding free spirit who falls for Xander; Thai martial artist Tony Jaa is hanging out as a bleached - blonde stunt grunt; and Hong Kong action hero Donnie Yen (recently seen doing a Zatoichi bit in Star Wars: Rogue One) is gang leader Xiang, who can melt hearts with a side - eye and a battle pstar Deepika Padukone plays Serena, a knife - wielding free spirit who falls for Xander; Thai martial artist Tony Jaa is hanging out as a bleached - blonde stunt grunt; and Hong Kong action hero Donnie Yen (recently seen doing a Zatoichi bit in Star Wars: Rogue One) is gang leader Xiang, who can melt hearts with a side - eye and a battle pStar Wars: Rogue One) is gang leader Xiang, who can melt hearts with a side - eye and a battle pose.

In an action - packed drama reminiscent of «80s techno - sci - fi thrillers, Jackie Chan stars as Lin, a police inspector in modern [Read More] Hong Kong.

Among the lesser roles, Hong Kong action star Yen has some good moments as a monk trying desperately but unsuccessfully to connect with the Force, and Tudyk is customarily droll as K - 2SO, the saucy droid whose rebel reprogramming has resulted in his saying «whatever comes into his circuits.»

Whereas the action of Donkey Kong Country took place on Donkey Kong Island, with locations that were to be expected from a platformer starring simians — such as jungles, forests and snowy mountains — the adventure of Donkey Kong Country 2 takes place on K. Rool's home turf of Crocodile Isle, which serves as a dark, gloomy, and melancholic contrast to platforming norms.

February 13, 2018, Hong Kong: Hollywood actor Steven Seagal has become a believer of Bitcoiin2Gen, the Hollywood action star will be representing the leading cryptocurrency organization, Bitcoiin2Gen, as brand ambassador.