Naam yi boon sik (2007)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Benny Chan

Writers:

Benny Chan (written by) &
Chi-man Ling (written by) ...

Release Date:

19 July 2007 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Crime

Plot:

Three cops team up to bring down a criminal gang of seven, who have their own hidden agenda. |

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Nicholas Tse	...	Detective Chan Chun
Jaycee Chan	...	Officer Wai King Ho
Shawn Yue	...	Inspector Carson Fong Yik Wei (as Shawn Yue Man Lok)
Jacky Wu	...	Tien Yeng Seng (as Wu Jing)
Lisa Lu	...	Ho's Grandma
Andy On	...	Ronin Tien Yeng-Yee
Candy Liu	...	Ho Ka Yee
Elanne Kwong	...	Leung Hoi Lam
Sam Lee	...	Ho Wing Keung (as Sam Li)
Ken Lo	...	Wong Kam Ming (as Ken Low)
Vincent Sze	...	Tien Yeng Chi
Mei Wang Xue	...	Tien Yeng Yan (as Xue Mei Wang)
Ka Wah Lam	...	Senior Superintendent Cheung Man Yiu (as Lam Ka Wah)
Tak-bun Wong	...	Sam Mok (as Kenny Wong)
Mark Cheng	...	Senior Superintendent Mark Law Pui Keung

Also Known As:

Invisible Target (Hong Kong: English title)
Nan er ben se (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violent content.

Runtime:

Australia:128 min (theatrical version)

Country:

Hong Kong | China

Language:

Cantonese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:MA | Hong Kong:IIB | USA:R | South Korea:15 | Malaysia:18SG | New Zealand:R16

Company:

Universe Films Ltd.

Trivia:

Benny Chan requests that no doubles are to be used for the film's stunt sequences. The actors in the film performed their own stunts.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After discovering the unconscious man, officer PC 5299 fails to pinch the patient's nostrils closed while giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

New level of action from its Director

I'm generally a fan of Benny Chan's movie. The characters portrayed in his movie have charm only he can infuse into them, and this one is no exception. The story is about an outrageously nice cop played by Jaycee Chen who is now under surveillance because his brother who is also a cop is suspected of turning bad.

The fight scenes are pretty brutal, and you'd wonder why a nice guy like Jaycee has to be involved in a situation like this, but he is. Two other undercover police officers along with him battle for their lives against crooks who are trying to carve a living in society.

Jaycee Chen has all the charm, and character of both his mother and his father. He has looks that resembles them also, but the personality is all his own.

This level of brutality is unusual for Benny Chan, but along with the story and its characters, the movie is highly experimental, but it comes together in the end with pretty outrageous fight scenes.

Good movie even if you're not a fan of Benny Chan movies.