Viewer Comments:The Big Heat
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A good old HK actioner, with some pretty raw violence and 'in your face' gunplay. No stylized visual imagery of people flying through the air, white doves or bullet P.O.V. Just people killing each other in a lot of bloodshed and close-ups of bullet wounds. It has a lot of good ideas, some of which maybe could have been executed a little better. But it still holds up. Good cast with familiar faces and a decent story.
Hell, why go into detail? It's a HK 80's action flick! It's BAD-ASS, BOLD, BLOODY, BRUTAL and delightfully, politically incorrect--just how it ought to be.
Waise Lee is not cut out to be an action movie lead. I didn't like that.
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The Big Heat (1989, Hong Kong Production) is over the top violence--you can see car chases, gun shots, shooting on the streets, and buildings blow up. This is Waise Lee's best movie since "A Better Tomorrow" (1986, Tsui Hark Producer), and "Bullet In The Head" (1990, Directed by John Woo, of "The Killer" fame,1989). "The Big Heat" became a box office hit in Hong Kong. "The Big Heat" is a good movie, watching many times, the story is good, only extreme violence, all this movie everything good. Directed by Johnnie To, from "Casino Raiders 2", 1993.
Extremely violent even for Hong Kong standards, but all the better for it. Waise Lee stars as a cop battling against the odds and the surprisingly vengeful baddies. The shootouts are better than in most other Heroic Bloodshed films.
Hilarious!
Gloomy apocalyptic testament of Hong Kong's capitalism. Homosexuality, drug-dealing, and street-showdown between the police and a psychic criminal show that Chinese views of value have been already raped by 100 year-domain of westernization regardless of their UNWANTED retro-annexation to main China.
Medical drama-style attention to detail when (as frequently happens here) people are hurt or killed. Certainly very gruesome, but so are many HK actioners. I thought this one was great. Just the right balance of slam-bang action, involving plot and character development. A note about Stuart Ong, a veteran of dozens of cheap porns and bit parts. I found his performance quite compelling. Or is it just that he looks (in this movie) so much like John Hurt ?
-STSH
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