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People's Hero
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by Tai Seng Video
Sales Rank: 175144
Price: $39.99
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A terrific small-scale suspense thriller about a botched bank robbery and the hostage crisis that grows out of it. Two jittery kids (one a showy epileptic played by <I>Hard Boiled</I>'s Tony Leung Chiu-wai) chicken out before they can finish knocking over a small branch bank; with their escape route cut off, they are forced to improvise. Ti Lung, from <I>A Better Tomorrow</I>, is a low-level mobster on the lam who tries to exploit the chaotic media circus that develops, first to extort a set of exit papers for himself, and then to bust his slatternly girlfriend out of the slammer. This is almost a one-set movie, skillfully orchestrated by director Yee Tung-sing: an exercise in synthetic tension. And the resemblance to <i>Dog Day Afternoon</i> is much too close for comfort. Ti Lung (a former kung fu superstar, here in his mid-40s) is a monumentally graceful actor. He doesn't flinch from the unsavory truth of his ruthless, stubborn, thin-skinned character, but he nevertheless makes us empathize with an aging bully's drive to get out from under. The hot-wired actor Tony Leung Kar-fai (the spineless husband in <I>Lady in Black</I>) plays a stressed-out cop bent on capturing the mobster. <I>--David Chute</I>
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