The Touch (2002)

Note Générale:

4,6/10   

Réalisateur:

Peter Pau

Scénaristes:

Julien Carbon (writer)
Laurent Courtiaud (writer)

Date de sortie:

1 août 2002 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Aventure | Action | Romance

Intrigue:

A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages. |

Plot Keywords:

Artifact | Acrobat | Martial Arts | Buddhism | Beautiful Woman

Récompenses:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

And the Glitzy Martial Arts Mimics Just Go On and On

Ensemble

Michelle Yeoh	...	Pak Yin Fay
Ben Chaplin	...	Eric
Richard Roxburgh	...	Karl
Sihung Lung	...	The Monk-Dun Huang
Brandon Chang	...	Pak Yeuk Tong
Margaret Wang	...	Lily
Dane Cook	...	Bob
Emmanuel Lanzi	...	Draco
Kenneth Tsang	...	Ping
Gabriel Harrison	...	Sam (as Gabriel Hoi)
Winston Chao	...	Yin's Father
Zhenghai Kou	...	Silvio
Liu Chang Sheng	...	Pang
Hua Qin	...	Fat-Wah
Sua Lang Rao Deng	...	The monk - 700 Yrs. Ago

Autre(s) titre(s):

Tian mai chuan qi (China: Mandarin title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence.

Durée:

China:103 min

Pays:

China | Hong Kong | Taiwan | Japan

Langue:

Anglais | Mandarin

Couleur:

Couleur

Rapport de forme:

2,35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Iceland:16 | Netherlands:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | USA:PG-13

Lieux de tournage:

Beijing, China

Société:

Aruze Corporation

Guillemet:

Karl: I'd offer you a drink, but that would be completely out of character.

And the Glitzy Martial Arts Mimics Just Go On and On

'Tian mai chuan qi' (AKA 'Touch') follows in the well paid path of the really gorgeous films that came out of Hong Kong and China (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, etc) but it raises the question 'Just how many of these small story visual epics are palatable in repetition? Michelle Yeoh recognizes successful financial formulas when she sees one and is at the crux of this flimsy little caper film, cashing in on the popularity of the genre.

The story is slight: a relic (ny the monks of Dan Huang. The monks call upon a family of acrobats (of course with a history of hundreds of years of secret training on how to accomplish this mission) to retrieve it. Pak Yin Fay (the very beautiful Michelle Yeoh) and her brother Tong (Brandon Chang) take on the mission - with a few glitches: Pak Yin Fay's old boyfriend Erik (Ben Chaplin) is a ne're-do-well thief who possesses the necessary Heart medallion required to open the location of the Sharira. But wouldn't you know, there appears an unscrupulous nasty guy Karl (Richard Roxburgh, a fine Australian actor out of Moulin Rouge, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Oscar and Lucinda, etc) who causes no end of problems at the site and initiates the reason for making this film: an extended martial arts dance on pillars above a CGI fire in the tomb - a place where nearly everyone in the cast is cremated after gallant swinging and flying! Yet of course it all ends well with the Sharira being returned to the happy monks in Tibet.

Corny, yes, but if martial arts films with lots of color and vistas of deserts and the holy city in Tibet stimulate you, then this film is worth your time. Michelle Yeoh is beautiful to watch, and both Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh are fine enough actors to almost make you forget the pointless shallow lines they are force to deliver with as much comedic tone as they can milk from the script. Grady Harp