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Flashpoint

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41% Tomatometer 22 Reviews 67% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
Sgt. Ma Jun (Donnie Yen) is a Hong Kong police officer with a reputation for violent behavior. He is determined to find and take down three powerful Triad drug dealers (Ray Lui, Collin Chou, Xing Yu). One of his fellow officers, Wilson (Louis Koo), is an experienced undercover agent working within the Triad gang. He and Jun agree to a partnership, but, when Wilson's cover is blown, Jun is forced to confront the gang the only way he knows how: with his fists.
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Flash Point features some nice mindless martial-arts action, but too much of the already thin story treads familiar ground.

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John Anderson Newsday 03/21/2008
2/4
Insensible. Go to Full Review
Peter Hartlaub San Francisco Chronicle 03/14/2008
3/4
Yen has developed a recent passion for mixed martial arts, and his more traditional punches and flying kicks are supplemented by some close-quarters Muay Thai kicks and even some jujitsu submission holds. Ultimate Fighting Championship fans will be happy. Go to Full Review
Kyle Smith New York Post 03/14/2008
1/4
Flash Point comes loaded with cliches and immediately starts blasting them in every direction. Go to Full Review
Douglas Davidson Elements of Madness Nov 14
Even lesser titles in Yen’s catalogue offer audiences something to get excited about. In this case, it’s the final conflict and this re-release allows an opportunity for folks who haven’t seen it before to do so in HD. Go to Full Review
Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse 02/27/2022
7.5/10
Flash Point is a great action film, a title that highlights the abilities of all its cast and crew, and a must see for all fans of the category. Go to Full Review
Don Willmott Filmcritic.com 06/13/2008
3/5
If you're a fan of Hong Kong police flicks, then you know that at any given moment, it seems like 50 percent of the force is deep undercover in the triads. Go to Full Review
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Calvin O Aug 10 Not sure why this is so highly rated. There aren't very many fight scenes, and those that we do have are either a bunch of super close shaky camera angles so you can't see anything, or a bunch of ground wrestling. Not much by way of interesting action to be found. The story is really ho hum, which is fine when you've got a ton of wicked awesome fight sequences, but this lacked those entirely. There is some nice parkour i guess. See more Leprechaun K @LeprechaunKing Feb 26 Great fight scenes. See more Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 Feb 13 A very standard Donnie Yen film. Very solid action sequences but not much story or acting See more Kevin C Jan 26 You will love this movie if you are a fan of Mixed Martial Art! This movie is a perfect showcase of how's MMA fight could be like in a street fight. Flying arm bar, triangle, gi-fight(jacket), proper striking, more and more. This movie is not a Jackie Chan movie(come on Western people leave us alone, we have different kinds of movie) Forget about the story. Perhaps it is the best MMA fighting movie. See more DanTheMan 2 02/19/2024 A delicious throwback to the hyperkinetic spectacles of 80s Hong Kong cinema, Flash Point is packed with lightning-fast, extensively blistering one-on-one fighting and manic bloodstained gunplay that would make even John Woo proud. The third collaboration between star, Donnie Yen, and director, Wilson Yip, the film does admittedly suffer from its uneven pacing, extremely noticeable anachronisms and clichéd plot we've already seen a thousand times. Yet this stripped-down unpretentious actioneer essentially amounts to an 87-minute freight train of Donnie Yen badassery and effortless awesomeness, even if the film can't decide if Yen or Louis Koo is the main hero. The final fight is the stuff of legends, and rightly so; pitting Yen against the equally legendary Collin Chou, it's one of high-impact bone trauma that you owe yourself not to miss. Yen's choreography is exceptional, Yip's direction is superb with some fluid camerawork and the score by Kwong Wing Chan positively pulse-pounding. For all its faults, Flash Point more than delivers where it matters. See more jeremy z 10/01/2021 A largely incoherent plot with some cookie cutter police narrative, all the action that isn't Donnie Yen showing off his mma skills are all lame. lame shootouts and lame car chases, with some particularly cringeworthy wirework. But, that one fight at the end. *chef's kiss* See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Sgt. Ma Jun (Donnie Yen) is a Hong Kong police officer with a reputation for violent behavior. He is determined to find and take down three powerful Triad drug dealers (Ray Lui, Collin Chou, Xing Yu). One of his fellow officers, Wilson (Louis Koo), is an experienced undercover agent working within the Triad gang. He and Jun agree to a partnership, but, when Wilson's cover is blown, Jun is forced to confront the gang the only way he knows how: with his fists.
Director
Wilson Yip
Producer
Nansun Shi
Screenwriter
Kam-Yuen Szeto, Lik-Kei Tang
Distributor
Third Rail
Production Co
Chang Ying Group, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Beijing Enlight Pictures, Beijing Poly-bona Film Publishing Company, Mandarin Films Distribution
Rating
R (Strong Bloody Violence|Brutal Martial Arts Action)
Genre
Action
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 14, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 14, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.3K
Runtime
1h 28m
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