Herman Yau has always been prolific, but 2023 was one of his most productive years ever, with him coming up with 4 movies, with “Raid on the Lethal Zone” being a mainland production, by streamer iQIYI. The scope is somewhat smaller, but Yau still has come up with an impressive picture.
Raid on the Lethal Zone is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 2024
The story is based on a heavy 1992 crackdown, but this time unfolds in July 1998, around the fictitious Meng City. The area has been pummeled with rain for quite some time, and the emergency services have their hands full trying to prevent disaster both from landslides in the mountainous parts of the area and from floods that have been taking place all around. Even worse, the possibility of a nearby dam overflowing becomes bigger and bigger. At the same time, a rather well-organized group of drug traffickers led by Boss Wang,...
Raid on the Lethal Zone is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 2024
The story is based on a heavy 1992 crackdown, but this time unfolds in July 1998, around the fictitious Meng City. The area has been pummeled with rain for quite some time, and the emergency services have their hands full trying to prevent disaster both from landslides in the mountainous parts of the area and from floods that have been taking place all around. Even worse, the possibility of a nearby dam overflowing becomes bigger and bigger. At the same time, a rather well-organized group of drug traffickers led by Boss Wang,...
- 4/27/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Incredibly prolific director Herman Yau presents his fourth film of the 2023, “Moscow Mission”, after “The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell”, “Death Notice” and “Raid on the Lethal Zone”. Yau has turned into a bona fide master of action and this last effort is a bombastic take on the true story of a series of violent robberies in 1993 on the Beijing-Moscow train and the Chinese mission to eradicate them and capture the robbers. It's not the first film dealing with these particular incidents; Michael Mak had directed “The Train Robbers” in 1995, and there is also a more recent 31-episode online drama, directed by Zhang Rui. Chen Daming has curated the screenplay, incorporating as much action set pieces as possible, although, maybe at the expense of the script's fluidity.
Moscow Mission is screening at UdineFar East Film Festival 2024
It's 1993 and the economy situation in China and Russia is in a state of great confusion.
Moscow Mission is screening at UdineFar East Film Festival 2024
It's 1993 and the economy situation in China and Russia is in a state of great confusion.
- 4/26/2024
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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