Description
Tony Leung, star of Hong Kong action movies like Hard-Boiled and
Bullet in the Head, stars in Tokyo Raiders along with pop stars
Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen. When Macy (Chen) gets jilted at the
altar in Las Vegas, she returns to Hong Kong to find her fianc has
disappeared--but in his apartment she finds Yung (Cheng), an
interior decorator with surprising kung fu skills. Together they go
to Japan, where they meet up with Lin (Leung), a private detective
with an entourage of kung fu babes and stories that don't quite add
up. From there, the plot gets more and more incomprehensible. It
has something to do with counterfeit yen and a twisty series of
double-crosses, but Tokyo Raiders is really about hip clothes and
martial arts razzle-dazzle, all framed by the worst dubbed dialogue
you've ever heard--sort of a Hong Kong version of The Mod Squad.
Leung has demonstrated his acting chops in movies like Chungking
Express and In the Mood for Love, but he can't make this silliness
sound sensible. Still, the actors are sexy, the fight scenes are
splashy (if a little confusing), and the movie never wastes too
much time getting from one action sequence to the next. A chase
that starts out on a motorized skateboard and ends up on a trailer
truck hauling new cars is particularly entertaining. --Bret Fetzer
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