"The degree of risk" [2] (another name: "Melted" [3] [4] ) - Hong Kong comedy fighter directed by with the participation of Jet Li and Jackie Chen . Parody of the Hollywood action movie " Die Hard " (1988) [5] [6] [7] .
Degree of risk | |
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膽 龍威 / High Risk | |
Genre | action movie comedy |
Producer | |
Producer | Pei Xiangquan Won Chin |
Author script | Won Chin |
In the main cast | Jet Li Jackie chan Charlie Young |
Operator | Tom lau |
Composer | Richard Yun |
Film company | Upland Films Corporate Limited Wong Jing's Workshop Ltd. |
Duration | 101 min |
Fees | Hong Kong : 11 403 790 HK $ [1] |
A country | Hong Kong |
Tongue | Cantonese |
Year | 1995 |
IMDb |
Content
Story
Lei Keith, a member of the engineer unit , answers the call near the local school, where a group of terrorists led by the Doctor took the school bus hostage. Soon he learns that his wife and son are in this mined bus. Keith sends a subordinate to defuse the bomb, but, despite the efforts, the bomb still works, killing all the hostages. After this incident, Keith leaves his job in the police force and has been working as a backup for the militant star Frankie Lone for several years. However, Helen, a tabloid reporter, takes one of Lone's stunts and uncovers the scam of the star. She decides to use it to raise the rating of her show.
At the banquet in honor of the film Louna, Frankie’s father and his manager invite Keith to a jewelry exhibition in a newly opened hotel, but the Doctor also intends to attend the event. In traffic, Kit accidentally overhears the Doctor’s conversation, in which he uses the same phrase as when a school bus was undermined, and, realizing who was speaking, followed the car to the hotel, but then Kit could not convince the hotel manager of the impending danger. Only detective Kam and the duty sergeant from the nearby police station believe Keith's words.
The doctor and his men seize the building, take the visitors of the exhibition hostage and begin the slaughter. Keith and Kam return to the hotel where they are ambushed, and the detective is injured. Frankie manages to escape, but confronts Fefei, pretending to be a helpless girl in need, leading him directly to her partner, Son Phun. It turns out that Phon is obsessed with meeting Frankie in battle. The movie star runs away after meeting him.
Keith and Kam got rid of several invaders when they drove out of the freight elevator. Frankie's father takes away weapons from a terrorist and threatens a hacker trying to deactivate the security system at the exhibition. Kam is reuniting with his girlfriend Joyce. Keith is trying to kill the Doctor when he scoffs at him, but the attempt is good for the terrorists. Keith, Helen, and Frankie’s father barely make it to escape.
Helen runs into a room with an exhibition of venomous reptiles, removes the videotape under the window and hides in the men's room. There the Doctor's younger brother, Rabbit, enters, looks in the mirror and leaves, after which he throws several snakes into the room with Helen. Keith and Louny save the girl, but before that she gets a snake bite. Keith obtains an antidote and learns that Helen managed to capture the Doctor's face.
Meanwhile, the Doctor warns the police that if they do not fulfill his demands, he will throw the hostage out of the hotel window with manager Frankie as the first victim every ten minutes. The whale goes for a videotape, but is ambushed by Rabbit, as a result kills him. The whale barely takes the ribbon before the floor is blown up with a hand grenade. The police prohibits Keith from returning to the hotel, so he forces the sergeant under the gun to allow him to return to the hotel by helicopter. Loney stumble on Fefei and Phona in the midst of a dispute that grew into a fight. Father and son enter into the business, not realizing the true face of Fafei, until she takes them under the sights. Phon makes Frankie fight him. Frankie manages to kill the enemy, and Kam eliminates the girl when she intends to kill the others.
The doctor intercepts the conversation of the police and sends his people to the ambush of the helicopter. Helen manages to warn Keith, who flies in a helicopter into the floor of the building. In chaos, everyone runs away, and the Doctor takes Helen hostage and takes him to the roof. The whale finds Helen with a bomb on her body while the Doctor gives the choice to Kit — revenge or the salvation of a loved one’s life. Keith throws a knife into the shoulder of the Doctor, and the terrorist escapes. Keith sees the same wiring that was on the school bus bomb, but this time successfully neutralizes it. A few seconds later the Doctor calls him. In conversation, Keith informs the criminal that the knife was smeared with snake venom from Helen's wound, and the Doctor died in agony.
Frankie decides to use the incident as a basis for his new film, while inviting everyone for their heroism. Keith, however, leaves Helen, who expresses gratitude with a desire to marry him.
Cast
Actor / Actress | Original character name | Character name in Russian | Comments |
Jet Li | 李傑 | Lei Keith | Parody of the character of Bruce Willis |
Jackie chan | 龍威 / Frankie Lone | Lung Wai / Frankie Lone | Parody of Jackie Chan |
樂 慧 貞 / Helen | Lok Waichin / Helen | ||
Charlie Young | Joyce | Joyce | |
妻子 | wife Lei Kita | ||
黎小田 | Lai Siuthin | ||
阿甘 | Kam | Parody of Reginald Veljonson's character | |
醫生 | Doctor | Parody of the character of Alan Rickman | |
菲菲 | Fefei | ||
子 | Rabbit | ||
龍威 父親 | Father Lung Wai | Parody of , father of Jackie Chan | |
龍威 經理 人 | manager Lung Wai | Parody of , manager Jackie Chan | |
喪 邦 | Son Phon | Parody of the character of Alexander Godunov |
Reaction
Mark Morrison (Heroic Cinema) [5] :
This is more than a few shades of " Die Hard ", with kung fu and an unnecessary helicopter for the sake of diversity. Chingmy Yau plays the role of a reporter who is determined to expose Frankie for his scam, and Charlie Yong for a young hope, getting into a wrong job at the wrong hotel on the wrong weekend, but managing to save the situation with her mobile phone. All of this and the fights you expect from a movie with Jet Li add up to 101 minutes of amazing entertainment. |
Andrew Heskins (easternKicks.com) [6] :
Probably the best collaboration of Jet Li with Chin. |
Boris Khokhlov (HKCinema.ru) [8] :
... is a flat, silly and in many ways secondary, but at the same time very dynamic and, undoubtedly, quite funny action movie. |
Andrew Saroch (Far East Films) [7] :
The comedy action movie is undoubtedly in all its glory, when Jet Li was given the main place and allowed to show his smooth body movements. |
Nominations
The 32nd Golden Horse Film Festival (1995) [9]
Category | Laureate | Result |
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Best Supporting Actor | Jackie chan | Nomination |
Best choreography for battle scenes | , Yun Tak | Nomination |
Notes
- ↑ 1995 香港 票房 (whale.) . BoxOfficeCn.
- ↑ Degree of risk . HKCinema.ru .
- ↑ The film "Molten" . Afisha.ru .
- ↑ MOLTED . CTC (Kazan) .
- 2 1 2 Morrison, Mark Review: High Risk (1995) . Heroic Cinema (August 12, 2004).
- ↑ 1 2 Heskins, Andrew High Risk aka Meltdown . easternKicks.com (December 1, 2004).
- ↑ 1 2 Saroch, Andrew High Risk . Far East Films (March 25, 2015).
- ↑ Khokhlov, Boris The degree of risk . HKCinema.ru (April 7, 2011).
- ↑ 第 32 屆 1995 (whale.) . 台北 金馬 影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival .
Links
- "Risk level" (eng.) On the website of the Internet Movie Database (Checked July 8, 2018)
- “Risk Level” (eng.) On the Hong Kong Movie Database