In the Line of Duty 4 (1988)
AKA Huang jia shi jie zhi IV: Zhi ji zheng ren; In the Line of Duty 4: Witness; Witness; Yes, Madam 4. A Hong Kong girls-with-guns action flick, this movie is a real diamond in the rough. Directed by Yuen Woo Ping and starring Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen, Michael Wong, and Yat Chor Yuen, the movie can't go wrong in the action department and doesn't. The thrills are generally martial arts heavily laced with impressive stuntwork, and it all looks like it hurt a whole lot. The fight locations are all utilized extremely well in all of the fights.
The plot is okay and deals with some corruption in the C.I.A., but about every five minutes or so the action makes you forget about all that. It's what I like to call a "Whoa! Dang!" movie, because that's all I was saying while watching it. The Region 0 "Universe" DVD version that I saw has some barely intelligible subtitles, which provide some laughs and a few ? moments. While everything else about the movie is satisfactory, the action is really off the chain and exceptional and definitely worth a look.
Highlights: The hanging-off-the-side-of-an-ambulance fight. The two motorcycles, a shovel, and a sledgehammer fight. The hospital room fight between an assassin with a sword and an unarmed, drugged woman who is trying to save the patient from being killed.
The plot is okay and deals with some corruption in the C.I.A., but about every five minutes or so the action makes you forget about all that. It's what I like to call a "Whoa! Dang!" movie, because that's all I was saying while watching it. The Region 0 "Universe" DVD version that I saw has some barely intelligible subtitles, which provide some laughs and a few ? moments. While everything else about the movie is satisfactory, the action is really off the chain and exceptional and definitely worth a look.
Highlights: The hanging-off-the-side-of-an-ambulance fight. The two motorcycles, a shovel, and a sledgehammer fight. The hospital room fight between an assassin with a sword and an unarmed, drugged woman who is trying to save the patient from being killed.
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