unknown donnie yen film

[lucidogen]

I have just been looking on yes asia and they have a donnie yen film called heat (city of darkness), ive never heard of it before, so i wonder if anyone could tell me anything about it or wether anyone would recomend getting it.

thanks a lot

[AV1979]

Hi there...I have City of Darkness on VCD and Donnie is more of an extended cameo yet he has a nice final fight against Collin Chou (aka Ngai Sing). The film is Taiwanese and stars two teen martial arts aces from there. I have a review posted on my website:

http://megspace.com/entertainment/highi ... kness.html


Albert

[Brian Thibodeau]

I have this one, too. I read the director as Lin Wan-zhang, but perhaps I'm wrong based on Albert's information. Here's my mini-review:

CITY OF DARKNESS (199?) D: Lin Wan-zhang. Chen Zi-cheung, Lee Luo, Zhuo Hsiao-hu, Ngai Sing, Billy Chow Bei-lei, Kim Maree Penn, Donnie Yen Ji-dan, Cheung Yi-teng.
Nutty little action-adventure is low on budget and even lower on brains, but offers up no less than eleven above-grade fight sequences and on those alone, I give it a modest recommendation. Three siblings are reunited by a villain (Ngai Sing) who needs pieces of a magical amulet they each possess to discover the location of buried treasure. And, uh, that’s about it, really, as a series of well-choreographed scraps quickly substitutes for plot. As such, it’s well worth watching, although the screenplay, production values and acting are beyond cheap. Top-billed Donnie Yen looks like he has far better things to do in every one of his scenes, but Kim Maree Penn makes the most of her sizable role as a lethal hitbitch brought in to kill everybody. 5.