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Purple Storm

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Hong Kong police try to turn an amnesiac terrorist (Daniel Wu) against his comrades before they can unleash a deadly chemical weapon.

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Almar Haflidason BBC.com Rated: 4/5 May 28, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member The year before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this won for best Action Choreography. Good direction, dated CGI and great performances. Fans of Daniel Wu, Teddy Chan and Stephen Tung Wai should be pleased. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member a riveting hk action experience about combating terrorism. the story and teddy chan's direction are thankful above b- movie and the action set pieces are very exciting! as well, one of daniel wu's earlier works with a solid old school cast. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit different from typical HK films from the same genre; trying to make sense at the beginning. Quickly falling back to formulaic action genre from middle onwards however. Gan Kwok Leung is cool although its rather awkward seeing him acts. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member A decent action movie to spend time watching over weekends. The characters in the movie are make believeable. This movie was the first action movie that Daniel Wu has taken up and it's totally good. And I personally find the connections of the character in the movie so unique in a way. The action sequence was fast and interesting however the editing for the movie was poorly done. It seems some parts of the most interesting/informative movie was cut out. I would say it is one of the best action movie during it's times. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member I feel sorry for the character Daniel Wu plays. He begins as a criminal but an accident with his head happened during the mission and he got amnesia. The CIA decided to use this to their advantage, with a little hypnotism and false memories, he will lead CIA to his crime father. However he somehow was captured by his father and memories come back bit by bit until he is confused and lost. He thought he was doing good but somehow went bad after his son was killed in a bombing. Now he must help CIA stop his father from unleashing the Purple Storm that will cost thousands of lives. The ending is a fitting one and I'm happy to have seen it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Teddy Chans back catalogue doesn't impress much, but if Jackie Chan is your homeboy you get to direct movies anyway, see? The story is outrageous: Red Khmers with biological weapons, but there's also a certain Sturm und Drang-thing going on between Daniel Wu and Gan Kwok Leung that caught my interest. A mad waste of talent of course to cast character actor Joan Chen as rogue psychologist, but it also kinda makes me happy to see her slumming like this from time to time. Josie Ho, on the other hand, should definitely do more of these actionflicks. She got moves. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Hong Kong police try to turn an amnesiac terrorist (Daniel Wu) against his comrades before they can unleash a deadly chemical weapon.
Director
Teddy Chan
Producer
John Chong, Solon So
Screenwriter
Jo Jo Hui, Oi Wah Lam, Clarence Yip Wai-Chung
Production Co
Media Asia Films Ltd. [hk]
Genre
Action
Original Language
Chinese
Runtime
1h 52m