Flash Point 4K 2007

In the West, the action genre is either dead or in its worst shape in the last twenty years. In the East, action movies continue to be made with enviable regularity. Asian filmmakers frankly don't care about secondary plots and clichés. And does it really matter when we are offered action scenes of the highest caliber, shot by Hollywood standards for pennies, but whose quality Hollywood, try as it might, has not yet achieved?

Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip have teamed up for the third time to give us an unforgettable spectacle. As in S. P. L. ," the film is not at all hindered by the secondary plot, and the director once again builds the narrative in a way that is completely different from what fans of the genre expect: in the first two-thirds, there are almost no fights or showdowns, but in the last thirty minutes, the action overwhelms the screen with terrifying energy.

Wilson Yip devotes the first hour of the film to developing the characters, although the director does not say anything new, but merely skillfully plays with the clichés of such stories. It is quite interesting to watch the relationships between the characters, which is largely achieved through fast editing and cinematography. And when the story reaches the home stretch, the creators go all out, bombarding the viewer with a series of impressive action scenes, the main one being the final and most jaw-dropping fight of last year between Donnie Yen and Colin Chow.

Flash Point is a film from a category where everything is old and familiar, but that doesn't prevent you from enjoying it.