The Wicked City

1992

1h 27m

Sci-Fi

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500+ Ratings

Hong Kong citizens tackle invaders from another world posing as humans and distributing lethal drugs.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Rated: 2/5

Jul 31, 2005

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Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat

Rated: 5/5

Mar 30, 2005

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Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

Seek this one out. A Hong Kong style Men in Black, with monsters instead of aliens, and more sex. Very cool stuff.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 16, 2003

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"The Wicked City" is Cheez Wiz cinema, which may help explain why the film has a modest cult following in the West. Some nice allegorical touches aside, this is [yet] another poorly adapted Japanese anime/manga given a Cantonese live action overhaul. The leads are fine, the photography is competitive, and even some of the make-up and costumes are fun but Peter Mak's direction is amateurish and Tsui Hark's script resembles the popular 1987 anime of the same name in few if any ways. Package this with a miniscule Hong Kong budget that fails to parallel the capital of animation with gross, cheap-o special effects, and "The Wicked City" is almost a complete bust.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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This is a WTF sort of movie where you will feel like you are high on drugs through a good majority of the movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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I enjoy the Leon & Michelle... other than that.. no really..

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Wow. This movie has giant vagina spiders in it. Wow.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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The film was adapted from a Japanese comic, but it's among the worst adaption in the world. The directing sucks....

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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This is a WTF sort of movie where you will feel like you are high on drugs through a good majority of the movie.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Peter Mak

Director

Tai Kit Mak

Director

Woo-Ping Yuen

Director

Jacky Cheung

Ken Kai

Leon Lai

Taki Renzaburô

Tatsuya Nakadai

Daishu

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Synopsis

Hong Kong citizens tackle invaders from another world posing as humans and distributing lethal drugs.

Director: Peter Mak, Tai Kit Mak, Woo-Ping Yuen
Screenwriter: Hark Tsui
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: Chinese
Runtime: 1h 27m