Dr. Wai In The Scriptures With No Words
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Showcasing once again the superb on screen fighting power of Asian Superstar Jet LI, Hong Kong's box office smash 'Dr. Wai' is set in the early Twentieth Century where Wai (Jet Li) embarks on an action packed quest in search of "The Scriptures With No Words."
Along with his trusty assistant Pao (Takeshi Kaneshiro) they encounter many obstacles on their way, including the lovely-but-deadly Yu Fung (Rosamund Kwan), a top agent for the Japanese who is attracted to Dr. Wai's boyish looks, and the lethal fighting skills of underworld gangster Ngai (Ngai Sing 'Bodyguard from Beijing"), who falls prey to the scriptures and transforms into a powerful monster to confront Jet in the final showdown.
Ching Siu Tung, director of such classics as "A Chinese Ghost Story', 'The Heroic Trio' and its sequel 'The Executioners', weaves his stylish magic set against magnificent backdrops, delivering an epic action adventure in true Hong Kong Style. There's also an excellent supporting role from super villain Billy chow ('Fist of Legend') and more - Watch out Indiana Jones, your Chinese cousin on his way into town!
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One of the most expensive movies from Hong Kong's big period and one of the best - Superdave
This wonderful adventure comedy is filled with eye-popping action and big budget sets and other production values, but what really makes the movie is the fact that the main story is framed within another even funnier story. You see, Dr. Wai, China's answer to Indiana Jones, is a fictional creation of author Jet Li, who has writer's block and is facing a deadline. So, his two idiot assistants and soon-to-be-ex-wife 'help' him by writing in parts of the story while he sleeps, causing the main story line of 'Dr. Wai' to go off in wild directions, and causing characters to shift from good to bad and back again. As a straight adventure movie, this is fine entertainment, but as a comedy about the creative process it is very clever and quite effective. Each of the four writers has his/her own slant and makes the story different by their contributions, and yet it all comes together smoothly. Plus, the mix of comedy, romance, historical fiction and martial arts action meshes well, something that is not often the case in Hong Kong pictures. HIGHLY recommended for anybody who likes Jet Li, action movies in general, or even movies about writers. This one is smart, well-formed entertainment.
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One of the most expensive movies from Hong Kong's big period and one of the best - Superdave
This wonderful adventure comedy is filled with eye-popping action and big budget sets and other production values, but what really makes the movie is the fact that the main story is framed within another even funnier story. You see, Dr. Wai, China's answer ...