Hu meng wei long (1995)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Woo-ping Yuen

Writer:

Ricky Ng (writer)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

A group of terrorists murder the captain of a cruise ship and take everyone hostage. Their plan is to steal the uranium being stored in the ship's safe. It's up to a security officer and a pickpocketing cocktail waitress to stop them. |

Plot Keywords:

Cruise Ship | Murder | Gun | Person On Fire | Martial Arts

Cast

Steve Brettingham	...	Ship's Captain
Collin Chou	...	First Officer (as Sing Ngai)
Wing Cho	...	Terrorist
Christy Chung	...	Lai
Habby Heske	...	Thug / Bass player
Kenny Ho	...	Alan
Mary Hon
Siu-Tin Lei
Elaine Lui	...	Elaine
Michael Miller	...	Musical Terrorist
Robert Samuels	...	Bobby / drummer
Fung Woo	...	Wu
Cheung-Yan Yuen	...	Passenger

Also Known As:

Fu maang wai lung (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
The Red Wolf (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | UK:18

Company:

Sharp Productions Ltd.

Terrific fights, terrible acting, pocket-change budget

Great martial arts action makes this cheap, low-budget, and poorly acted Yuen Woo-Ping film fairly entertaining and likable. The story is one we have seen many times before in many variations - terrorists take over a cruise ship and kill randomly, crew betrayals and heroic actions by a former cop (with a bitter past to add some depth to the character) to save the day are nothing new. A larger budget and better supporting actors would have made this lots better, but even so the no-wires-anywhere fight scenes are great despite the film's grade-Z budget, dumb stereotyped characters, and over-the-top slaughter-everyone violence. Worth a one-time see anyway.