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A female cop befriends a mysterious martial arts drifter, who turns out to be a deadly assassin.A female cop befriends a mysterious martial arts drifter, who turns out to be a deadly assassin.A female cop befriends a mysterious martial arts drifter, who turns out to be a deadly assassin.
Zhanwen Kou
- Timothy 'Chairman' Ma
- (as Kou Zhan Wen)
Chi Zhang
- Chairman's Subordinate
- (as Zhang Chi)
Xueliang Zhu
- Chairman's Subordinate
- (as Zhu Xue Liang)
Shan Peng Dang
- Chairman's Subordinate
- (as Dang Shan Peng)
Man-Wai Chow
- Sexy Girl
- (as Chow Man Wai)
Hau-Yiu Ng
- Sexy Girl
- (as Ng Hau Yiu)
Yin-Ming Sin
- Sexy Girl
- (as Sin Yin Ming)
Noriko Aoyama
- Miho Sasaki - Chairman Ma's Wife
- (as Aoyama Noriko)
Lik-Sun Fong
- Handson
- (as Alex Fong)
Kai-Man Tin
- Jellyfish
- (as Tenky Tin)
Yang Li
- Chairman's Subordinate
- (as Li Yang)
Cham-Sam Wong
- Chairman's Subordinate
- (as Wong Sam)
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Great directorial debut and martial arts action!
The awesome Wu Jing has been making quite a name for himself lately with the almighty success of his Wolf Warrior films, and deservedly so! Looking back on his directorial debut, Legendary Assassin, you start to wonder what his fascination of wolves is all about with the image of the animal carried alongside him on the Hong Kong DVD artwork and the wolfs tooth he wears around his neck throughout the film.
Had he thought about it (I guess) and knew how big the following two films were going to be, this would have been a great closing chapter - albeit with a connecting rewrite, stronger characters and fight scenes.
But hey - no doubt Wolf Warrior 3 will be along soon enough (at time of writing)!
When I first saw Legendary Assassin, I really enjoyed it. I loved Wu Jing in Fatal Contact and many other roles, so it was nice to have him back as leading man and good guy once again. There is a certain charm and return to the 90's HK film style of sorts, with fun and hard hitting fight scenes, simple storyline, odd comedic moments and lighting of shots. A repeat viewing many years later still did entertain me, but I just felt something more spectacular could have been done with the talent behind and in front of the camera.
Wu Jing's character of the assassin drifter was cool and intriguing although it might have been nice to find out a bit more on him. The idea of him stuck on an island after beheading a top mob boss and dodging his henchmen as a typhoon creeps in, was quite exciting and might have served better as the closing act. Alas, it is not - which then leaves us with a short and unimaginative, though painful looking, stunt filled fight against 100 henchmen and the (hardly) threatening dead boss's wife. Its not that the fight is disappointing as such, but just a lot of the same moves over and over unlike the big end battle of a classic Jackie Chan or Sammo Hung flick that had incredibly choreographed moves that had you cheering at the screen! Legendary Assassin is still most definitely worth the watch, and shows the promise of what we have now witnessed of Wu Jing as a director and star. And maybe now because we know what he can do, this lets us see what was missing here...
Still - plenty of fun to be had!
Had he thought about it (I guess) and knew how big the following two films were going to be, this would have been a great closing chapter - albeit with a connecting rewrite, stronger characters and fight scenes.
But hey - no doubt Wolf Warrior 3 will be along soon enough (at time of writing)!
When I first saw Legendary Assassin, I really enjoyed it. I loved Wu Jing in Fatal Contact and many other roles, so it was nice to have him back as leading man and good guy once again. There is a certain charm and return to the 90's HK film style of sorts, with fun and hard hitting fight scenes, simple storyline, odd comedic moments and lighting of shots. A repeat viewing many years later still did entertain me, but I just felt something more spectacular could have been done with the talent behind and in front of the camera.
Wu Jing's character of the assassin drifter was cool and intriguing although it might have been nice to find out a bit more on him. The idea of him stuck on an island after beheading a top mob boss and dodging his henchmen as a typhoon creeps in, was quite exciting and might have served better as the closing act. Alas, it is not - which then leaves us with a short and unimaginative, though painful looking, stunt filled fight against 100 henchmen and the (hardly) threatening dead boss's wife. Its not that the fight is disappointing as such, but just a lot of the same moves over and over unlike the big end battle of a classic Jackie Chan or Sammo Hung flick that had incredibly choreographed moves that had you cheering at the screen! Legendary Assassin is still most definitely worth the watch, and shows the promise of what we have now witnessed of Wu Jing as a director and star. And maybe now because we know what he can do, this lets us see what was missing here...
Still - plenty of fun to be had!
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- Budget
- HK$4,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $1,317,019
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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