Yen, young in his career, stages a number of startlingly fast, expertly choreographed fights including a finale rife in production value near an airport. Other than unfortunate, unnecessary slow motion, it’s a near-flawless climax, and joined to two other coinciding battles. In addition, Yen projects a sure-handed coolness, not ego, that elevates his character.

Eureka Entertainment have over the years have impressed with their vast collection of Martial Arts titles. That trend is about to continue in March with the release of the third and fourth instalments of In The Line Of Duty III and In The Line Of Duty IV. The story, as ever, is largely a framework to hang the action on, but this time it sees Khan as a relatively inexperienced cop who impresses her superiors by taking down a robber and is sent to the serious crimes squad, commanded by her uncle (Paul Chun), who doesn’t want her to be a cop. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a team of thieves led by by a couple (Stuart Ong as Nakamura and Michiko Nishiwaki who simply uses her real name for the character) takes down a jewellery show by a famous designer, killing many people in the process, including the partner of Policeman Hiroshi Fujioka (also using his real name in character). He comes to Hong Kong on their trail, and ends up teaming up with Khan to take the male and female thieves down. films, Frank Djeng kind of hilariously gets into how this supposed "series" really isn't by any objective standard, and that in fact due to the Ska Martes on So Close | Blu-ray (88 Films) Instead of doing a star wars fan edit for 97456th time, someone could lend th…All four features are sourced from 2K restorations provided by Fortune Star, all with the MPEG-4 encode and certainly pulling the most out of the sometimes-problematic sources. That isn’t to say that the video quality across the board is bad, but these Fortune Star restorations tend to look a bit too flat and smooth to be considered true to the sources they used to scan. However, 88 Films make all the transfers look great nonetheless. Paul Bramhall on Slaughter in San Francisco | Blu-ray (88 Films) We have a polishing face off between Eureka and 88 Films right now....in Eure… This Eureka Classics Limited Edition of In the Line of Duty III features a Limited Edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren Wheeling [First Print Run of 2000 copies] and a Limited Edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing by James Oliver [First Print Run of 2000 copies]. On disc extras include the marvelous two audio commentaries listed below, my preferred one being the one with Mike Leeder and Arne Venema since their conversational banter makes it very listenable as well as informative, but Frank Djeng also brings his usual wealth of knowledge to the table in his solo commentary.

The story just barely hangs together, and there are several Ed Woodian shifts between night and day and between locations, but coming to this movie for a complex investigative storyline is like going to a Friday the 13 th movie for an in depth exploration of teenage relationships… even if you DID get that it’s not really the point.FILMS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE FIRST FOUR FILMS IN THE "IN THE LINE OF DUTY" (皇家師姐) SERIES OF "GIRLS WITH GUNS" FILMS PRODUCED BY HONG KONG MOVIE STUDIO D & B FILMS IN THIS COLLECTIBLE 4-DISC BLU-RAY BOX SET! somewhat chaotic situation leads to an almost farcical state of affairs where the ostensible first film in the series may in fact not be,