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Black Mask (1996) More at IMDbPro »Hak hap (original title)

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Director:
Writers:
Hark Tsui (screenplay) &
Koan Hui (screenplay) &
Teddy Chan (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
14 May 1999 (USA) See more »
Plot:
A survivor of a supersoldier project must fight his former comrades as a masked hero. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
Awards:
3 nominations See more »
User Reviews:
Wham, bam, thank you, Jet Li!! See more (88 total) »
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jet Li ... Tsui Chik / Black Mask
Ching Wan Lau ... Inspector 'Rock' Shek Wai-Ho (as Lau Ching Wan)

Karen Mok ... Tracy Lee

Françoise Yip ... Mei Lin (as Francoise C.J. Yip)
Kong Lung ... Commander Hung (as Patrick Lung)
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang ... King Kau (as Anthony Wong)
Xin Xin Xiong ... Jimmy Jimmy
Moses Chan ... 701 Squad Member (as Mouses Chan)
King-fai Chung ... Police Commissioner (as Chung King Fai)
Ken Lok
Lawrence Ah Mon ... Operating Room Doctor (as Lawrence Ahmon)
Mei-Yee Sze (as Sze Mei Yee)
Roy Szeto
Suk-yee Chan (as Chan Suk Yee)
Nunzio Caponio (as Caponio Nunzio)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Hak hap" - Hong Kong (original title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence including martial arts combat, some sexual content and language.
Runtime:
96 min | USA:102 min
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Certification:
Hong Kong:IIB (cut) | Hong Kong:III (original version) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (2000) | Philippines:PG-13 | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:R18 | Australia:MA | Canada:18A | Germany:18 | Norway:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 (direct to video) | UK:18 (video premiere) | USA:R (certificate #36739) | Germany:BPjM Restricted
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The games Tracy plays on the Sega Saturn while locked inside Black Mask's apartment are "Virtua Fighter 2" and "X-men: Children of the Atom."See more »
Goofs:
Continuity: When Jimmy Jimmy and King Kau's gang notices the fuse which is heading towards the powerboard, Jimmy Jimmy is smoking a cigarette. When Jimmy Jimmy gets the fire extinguisher and climbs the ladder to extinguish the fuse, he no longer has a cigarette.See more »
Quotes:
Commander Hung:The Americans can't help but stick their noses in. Soon their world wide war against drugs will be completely compromised!See more »
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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Wham, bam, thank you, Jet Li!!, 4 November 1999
Author: Jerry-93 from Milwaukee, WI

Anyone who had never seen anything like the fight scenes in The Matrix has never seen this movie. The fight scenes were choreographed by action scene psychopath Yuen Woo Ping, who also did the fights in The Matrix. And the fight scenes are somethin.

Li plays a supersoldier who feels no pain, who now lives a life as a pacifist librarian (ya got me). When other evil supersoldiers begin killing off local drug lords to take over the drug trade, Li teams up with his cop buddy to help stop them.

There are some absolutely crazy things going on in this movie (one badguy gets his arm lopped off with a pane of glass and hardly notices). The fights scenes are filled with flying kicks and punches; the body count is way up there. Li has seldom been better, and he has surrounded himself with a bevy of beautiful female costars (Yip kicks some serious ass as a fellow supersoldier). Anthony Wong even makes a cameo as a drug lord (no suprises there; he makes a cameo in every HK movie). It's unfortunate they don't make action movies like this in the US; I wouldn't have to sit through all of these horrible dubbing jobs to see that action that I crave so much. Recommended.

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