Tiger Cage (1988)
Reviewed by: Frank Lakatos on 2005-12-08
Summary: Highly recommended brutal fast paced cop movie
Many critics have overlooked this movie, simply because Donnie Yen, Leung Kar Yan, and Wang Lung Wei all die early in the movie, leaving the pop singer turned actor Jackie Cheung to hold everything together, and he does, with style and intensity. The story may seem soft in the beginning, but the movie takes a turn to brutal and fast action, with ferocious kickboxing fight scenes, street fights, gun battles, and a consitant fast pacing. The acting is just as intense as the action. Simon Yam is terrific as the double crossing cop, and Jackie Cheung's intensity holds everything together, tightly. Donnie Yen's kickboxing and fight with Michael Woods is spectacular. Some of Yen's best modern day fighting, as his fight with Woods is much more frenetic and powerful than Yen's work in In the Line of Duty 4(1988). Highly recommended. ****/*****