News — Chow Yun Fat

Film Review: Love Unto Waste 地下情 (1986) - Hong Kong [HKIFF45] Reviewed as part of 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival 2021 by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help me reach one review per day in 2021. 2021 Review count - 14/365 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/neofilmreviews   Coming out a year before the more acclaimed “Rouge”, director Stanley Kwan created a coming of age tragic romance in the highly underrated “Love Unto Waste”. Despite starring an now rated all-star cast in Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Irene Wan in leading roles, the film also is well supported by Chow Yun...

Bulletproof Monk (2003) - USA As part of Film Critics ongoing series - Analysing Chow Yun Fat in Hollywood  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Chow Yun Fat’s Hollywood follow up of the box office hit “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” took a couple of long years with the well meaning yet mindless entertainment action comedy in music video turned director Paul Hunter’s “Bulletproof Monk”. The odd pairing of Chow with “American Pie” Seann William Scott, provides the film one of...

Anna and the King (1999) - USA As part of the Film Critics Series - Analysing Chow Yun Fat in Hollywood Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. To say Chow Yun Fat singlehandedly made the beautifully shot “Anna and the King” a better film than it is will be a clear understatement.  Starring Jodie Foster as Anna and Chow as the famed King Mongkut of Siam, the film stays closer to the original diaries than the often fictionalised “King and...

The Corruptor (1999) - USA As part of the Film Critics Series - Analysing Chow Yun Fat in Hollywood  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia)  Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Chow Yun Fat’s second Hollywood feature is far more sophisticated action crime thriller than “The Replacement Killers” that works better than most related genre films. “The Corruptor” allows a character study and goes deeper into the root problems of the police force, FBI and triads. Director James Foley smartly interplay the gritty and darker aspect...

The Replacement Killers (1998) - USA As part of the Film Critics Series - Analysing Chow Yun Fat in Hollywood  Reviewed by Andrew Chan (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Help us continue to cover more Asian and Martial Art films by making a donation to Neo Film Blog below. Antoine Fuqua’s directorial debut came in the form of Hollywood introduction to gun-fu Hong Kong icon Chow Yun Fat. The always charismatic Chow pairs up with fresh off the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning Best Supporting actress Mira Sorvino with decent chemistry as the two blast their way thru a mayhem of limitless...