I'm so glad I saw the Cantonese dub of this one - it gave me something to laugh at and enjoy. Seriously, there were some good points to this movie, but only a few, and I use the term "good" loosely.
The plot was actually an okay one - for a comic book. They tried to change the Black Mask into a comic book hero with comic book hero powers - didn't really work too well. I think I preferred the original and best…
Anyway, there were a few of the things I actually went to see - fights. But a lot of extra wirework and not enough good shots to convince you the actual people were in there, not just stand-ins. Odd how more fighting skill was shown as the intro to the movie than actually in the movie. Still, some good effects were put to use, just a pity they were let down by the rest of the movie… Thank god for Andy Lau Tak-Wah - he provided the voice of Prophet (and the news reporter half way through the movie - "…this is Andy Lau reporting", to the amusement of the rest of the theatre too) and made me think it wasn't too bad if you took it all as a comedy to be laughed at, not with. All the voice-overs were great in fact - I think they had more fun dubbing than I did watching it…
This Andy Ong guy was pretty much okay - he could fight and scowl fair enough. Nothing to write home about though. Just glad I didn't see the original version…
Now I miss my DVD of Black Mask…
3/10