Flashpoint

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Flashpoint

R

Released Mar 14, 2008

1h 28m

Action

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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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Critics Consensus

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

Insensible.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 21, 2008

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

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.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 14, 2008

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

Flash Point comes loaded with cliches and immediately starts blasting them in every direction.

Rated: 1/4

Mar 14, 2008

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

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.

Rated: 7.5/10

Feb 27, 2022

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Don Willmott

Filmcritic.com

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.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 13, 2008

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Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

I really wanted to see a fun mindless martial arts film. But the story is so familiar that it beoomes boring.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 8, 2008

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Leprechaun K

Great fight scenes.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/26/25

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Liam D

A very standard Donnie Yen film. Very solid action sequences but not much story or acting

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/25

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Kevin C

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.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/25

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DanTheMan 2

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.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/24

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jeremy z

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*

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

i wonder those so called 'movie critics' that gave the feed back as "just another dumb action movie" actually watched the film or not? don't expected oscar's level acting or story line when u are watching an action pack movie. the finale fight scene is worths for the value!! can't name much movies that are better than this.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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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: China Film Co-Production Corporation, Chang Ying Group, 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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