SILVER HAWK is even better than THE TOUCH. More action, more humor (not the campy, BATMAN-style, as this movie's detractors would have you believe), and as villians, it includes BLADE II star Luke Goss, and even better, playing one of his main henchmen, Michael Jai White!!!

SILVER HAWK takes place in the futre where billionareiss Lulu Wong (Michelle Yeoh) lives a double life. In public, she's Lulu Wong. In, well, public, she's also the Silver Hawk, only with a mask on. What distinquises Lulu from other super-heroes, is she actually finds it fun to battle evil-doers.

Her greatest challenge yet comes two-fold. On the one-hand, she is rekindling a romance with police man Rich Man (Richie Jen), whom she studied Kung Fu with at the Shaolin Temple, and who seems to be taking quite a while remembering who Lulu is. He also is hotly pursuing the Silver Hawk, who he is unawrae is Lulu.

On the other hand, she must defeat Alexander Wolfe (Luke Goss), a demented genuis with martial arts skills to match hers and two prostethic arms made of titanium. Wolfe has kidnapped an inventor and is forcing him to turn his latest invention into a mind control device, which Wolfe will use to brainwash humanity and conquer the world.

It certainly is great seeing Michelle back in action. In terms of bith her beauty and her atleticism, you'd never guess she was 42 when SILVER HAWK was released in Asia. Her best battles in the film can be found with Michael Jai White, who has literally one line, but his skills confrim that actions speak louder than words. Michelle trading punches with Luke Goss is also noteworthy.

Alot of reviewers thought SILVER HAWK was a campy, BATMAN-style kung fu movie, but I must diasgree. The action and the humor were both outstanding, and personally, I think it's about time a superhero movie came out of Asia. Even better that the superhero is a woman. Don't listen to the detractors, SILVER HAWK is pure gold!!!!!!!

How can anybody call this a "good" film? It's stupid, wasteful and has nothing to offer. I have two theories about why people could like this film: The first deals with Michelle Yeoh's popularity and how her fans could not call this film bad. The second involves with the lack of good HK flicks in 2004, so that brought positive reviews from those who couldn't find anything else worth seeing.

Here's the film in a nutshell, Take Michelle Yeoh, ripoff Batman, throw in bad action (generic crap that Jean Claude Van Damme's Straight To DVD films destroy), horrible acting, and most of all a horrible HORRIBLE story. That's this film in a nutshell and what I saw was just plain pathetic, very much like Ms. Yeoh's other flick that she released ("The Touch", I think?). This film also tries to be funny, but misses in all places.

Doing a bit of research, the film had a negative response in HK and did poorly at the box office. At least someone has seen this point, because this film is just plain bad! Now this is coming from a guy who loves action films and is a Michelle Yeoh fan in the process. This seems to be the typical line from most reviewers

"PRETTY GOOD ACTION FILM, BUT NOTHING SPECIAL"

Or something to that degree. I didn't really see much good action in this film, a bunch overdone and idiotic camera angles that were played out when Jingle Ma was back doing the work on Drunken Master II. Then they get the most annoying cast I've ever seen, and why'd they go international for a cast? Luke Goss and Michael Jai White were boring and could have been replaced by any white/black guy who could make a mean face.

Bah to all of you who said this film was "good", because it is far from that. It's a horrible film that most people will forgive for the action. The action sucks, so this film is basically nothing. Hopefully, this film is thrown into the garbage.

Not in this case. While Tokyo raiders features innovative fights and humourous action sequences, Silver Hawk uses a lot of wires. Michelle Yeoh's martial arts talents is completely wasted here because she and the bad guys spend a lot of time flying through the air, delivering high-kicks and assume supposedly cool poses instead of actually fighting(as in hand-to-hand, toe-to-toe fighting). Any idiot can fly in the air with the aid of wire.

Remember Shanghai Knights? I'd expected to see a spectacular showdown between Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen but it was so disappointing. They didn't need someone like Donnie Yen to play the bad guy if they were not gonna put his talents to use. Same thing can be said for Michelle Yeoh in Silver Hawk.

The story is terrible un-interesting, too. And the humour is just so-so.

All in all, this is just a waste of money and talents. But if you are a die-hard fan of Michelle then go ahead and watch it anyway.