Eighteen babies have already been kidnapped when the Chief of Police receives a message that his baby son will be the next. His baby is taken by an invisible kidnapper who is Ching, working for an evil master in order to protect her boyfriend. Tung, also known as Wonder Woman and Chat, also known as Thief Catcher join forces to overcome the evil master and eventually recruit Ching. They become known as “The Heroic Trio.” –BFI
Following his directorial debut with the 1980 period martial arts fantasy The Enigmatic Case, To’s career came to something of an apex in the late 1980s thanks to such memorable action films as The Big Heat and tender, personal dramas like All About Ah-Long (the latter of which landed star Chow Yun-Fat a Best Actor award at the 1990 Hong Kong Film Awards). After taking the helm for such memorable action films as The Heroic Trio and directing Stephen Chow in such films as Justice, My Foot and Mad Monk in the early ‘90s, To moved into producing with the creation of independent film company Milky Way Films, a company which yielded such popular Hong Kong action efforts as Nai-hoi Yau’s The Longest Nite and Expect the Unexpected. Though To’s production company was indeed a success, his career behind the camera was in need of some rejuvenation, an issue which he readily addressed with the release of his highly praised 1999 crime drama The Mission.
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To be honest, this is not a great movie - but it's one of those flicks where the lighting, camera work, costumes, and attractive leading ladies make it an entertaining experience. If you love Hong Kong cinema, you basically have to see this at some point. Maggie Cheung's intro, in which she flies through the air on her motorbike, is impossibly sexy and cool. R.I.P. Anita Mui, who is greatly missed.
Johnnie To viene solitamente, e giustamente, ricordato per altro. The Mission, A Hero Never Dies, PTU, Throw Down sono solo alcuni dei titoli con i quali si è guadagnato un bel gruppo di appassionati… read review
