Reviews:The Bodyguard From Beijing
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Action superstar Jet Li--a sensation in "Romeo Must Die", "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Jet Li's The Enforcer"--powers onto the screen in a nonstop action thriller about loyalty, betrayal...and revenge! Li plays a hard-hitting and highly trained bodyguard hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his beautiful girlfriend after she witnesses a murder. But things get sticky when the bodyguard and the girlfriend begin to develop feelings for one another! Then, while protecting the sexy witness, Li kills the brother of one of the assassins and becomes targeted for retribution himself! Featuring the always-amazing Jet Li performing all of his own hand-to-hand combat, "The Defender" is a must-see for action fans everywhere!
-Dimension
This shameless rip-off of "The Bodyguard" was Jet Li's first role outside of a kung fu period piece, and the first film to feature him with a full head of hair. He plays the totally cool and stoic bodyguard that Kevin Costner could only dream about being. His presence is intense and unflinching, and he looks great with a gun and a suit. Christy Chung is his bratty and annoying client who eventually falls for him, and the sexual tension between them is classic. The awesome Ngai Sing (from "The Red Wolf") is the psychotic vengeance-bent killer who's after Jet for killing his brother, and the two of them finally get to beat each other up at the end of the film with a combination of stellar, and silly, kung fu. Fun and mindless entertainment.
-Alex In Wonderland (see my profile)
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| Hong Kong martial arts master Jet Li plays a bodyguard from the Beijing secret police, sent to Hong Kong to protect a beautiful young witness to a mob killing, played by Christy Chung. Li turns her home into a high-security prison, complete with video cameras surveying every room, even her bedroom. Furious, Chung resists his efforts to protect her--until the threat to her life is made abundantly clear in a spectacular shopping mall shootout. As is natural under such circumstances, romance begins to bloom, much to the dismay of Chung's lawyer boyfriend, who hired Li in the first place. Made in the last few years before the British province of Hong Kong was returned to the rule of mainland China, The Bodyguard from Beijing makes many (possibly anxious) jokes about the differences between the austere Communist bodyguard and the lackadaisical H.K. police. Li's character is so consistently stone-faced that his usual boyish charm is repressed, and the movie emphasizes gunplay over acrobatic kung fu action, but there are still kicks galore and the usual Hong Kong combination of spectacular violence and outrageous sentimentality--all captured in stylish, glossy cinematography. And how often do you get to see venetian blinds used as an offensive weapon? |
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