You would expect the team up of master director Ringo Lam and actor Andy Lau would have had better results. Unfortunately The Adventurers is a somewhat lesser affair for both Director and Star.
Very entertaining. It is similar to watching a Mission Impossible, Bourne or James Bond movie, with the exotic locations, car chases and high tech.
I can't agree with those who rate this as one of those "so bad it's good" movies of its era, like Valley of the Dolls, Poseidon Adventure, Airport, etc. As trashy as they were, one thing those films were not: boring.
Some will no doubt get plenty of enjoyment from this very long remake of a John Woo film that I haven't yet had the opportunity to see. It's essentially a heist movie consisting of several complex thefts leading to a third act showdown, where we are in no doubt that there will be a twist, come betrayel, or two.
The Adventurers was the late Ringo Lam's final Hong Kong movie before heading over to Hollywood for a brief stint. Starring the wonderful Andy Lau and lovely Rosamund Kwan, the film is an action packed revenge flick with Lau having witnessed his parents murder when he was a boy.
I was pretty excited to see Stephen Fung's latest adventure flick, and on a recent trip to Hong Kong, managed to pick it up on DVD. A loose remake of John Woo's classic Chow Yun Fat vehicle, Once A Thief, the film definitely has more likeness to the later Mission Impossible films and other light hearted Hollywood blockbusters such as Knight And Day (2010) and Oceans Eleven (2001).
To put a novel as huge as this into 3 hours was a feat very few could accomplish. All the characters were brought to the screen so well, the casting was absolutely superb.
Action packed movie with amazing scenery. Good script, good acting & cool effects.
Bekim Fehmiu (Black Sunday) is Dax The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat who discovers that his father(Fernando Rey,Frog Number 1) was murdered on orders of the corrupt president (Alan Badel) a man who was his father's confidant and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living the playboy jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government.
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