Lie mo qun ying (1989)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Chun-Yeung Wong

Release Date:

2001 (Germany)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

A veteran mobster finds that not only are the police after him, but so are members of his own gang, led by a young gangster who wants to take over. |

Plot Keywords:

Gangster | Martial Arts

Cast

Alex Man	...	Supt. Tsang
Moon Lee	...	Bing
Siu-Ming Lau	...	Chai Yan
Sibelle Hu	...	Madam Tong
Ray Lui	...	Chai Yuet
Wai-Man Chan	...	Yin Fu
Francis Ng	...	Chiu Shing
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pui-Kei Chan	...	Bing's sister
Kang-Yeh Cheng
Kwok Chung Kwan
Kellie Lam
Hung Fong Lau
Shung Fung Lau
Alan Leung
Ken Lo	...	Thug (as Wai-kwong Lo)
Chin Tang Tang
Ridley Tsui
Wei Wang
Hsueh-erh Wen

Also Known As:

Devil Hunters (Hong Kong: English title)
Lip mo kwan ying (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Germany:16 (cut)

Company:

Atlas International Film

Trivia:

While performing the final stunt in Devil Hunters, Moon Lee and Sibelle Hu sustained a third degree burn. Both were supposed to jump off a window from a second story building to evade an explosion. Due to bad timing by the pyrotechnicians, they were engulfed in flames before they jumped down, resulting in severe burns. The epilogue of the film includes details about the accident, along with a message of gratitude from the director.

Running out of ideas after 30 minutes

"Red Force 3` a.k.a. `Megaforce 2' was now re-re-released as `Ultra Force 2' on (German language) DVD, which is not only confusing but also misleading, since there's already another `Ultra Force 2' around in Europe (starring Michelle Yeoh, and nothing to do with this one).

"Lie mo qun ying" tells the story of an aging gangster boss who is chased by the police and his own men, too - since his young rival Shing wants to become the new leader of the gang. The first half hour of the film starts rather promising, since a mysterious young woman tries to confuse the opponents and seemingly (!) is on nobody else's side in the chase. Unfortunately, after 30 minutes the movie turns into a permanent gunfight. Not really sophisticated, wasting a lot of ammunition and not telling us anything new, so finally it ends up as an average genre movie only (voted 5/10). Worth watching for fans of Moon Lee, though.

The Germany-16 rated disc runs for only 76 minutes, although the cover states 86! Must be one of those strange, purely accidental printing errors ;-) But at least the picture quality is very good for a cheapo.