A review of “SPL (Sha Po Lang)”
May 25th, 2006
by Wilson Yip
Finally, Hong Kong action is back.
I have no clue why Donnie Yen is not as popular as Jackie Chan or Jet Li here in North America. I wouldn’t consider it an “action-packed” film (I mean, for the first-half hour there’s only one punch, I think) but Donnie Yen’s choreography is simply superb – mixing the fanciful martial arts you see in everyday kung fu films and adding a healthy does of Ultimate Fighting-like takedowns and grapples.
And seeing Sammo Hung playing a ruthless gangster is quite a change from his oft-played humorous and merciful characters. It’s like a cute ol’ cuddly panda bear snapped one day and decided to shove bamboo shoots up the zookeeper’s ass. Well, almost like that.
[tags]Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, SPL[/tags]
One Response to “A review of “SPL (Sha Po Lang)””
1feral cat
June 21st, 2006 @ 10:26 pm
I think Donnie just is not as cute looking as Jackie and Jet, so western audiences don’t warm to him as much.
SPL is so much fun, really cool and I agree seeing Sammo playing a ruthless gangster was quite a change.
I watched three Simon Yam movies this week SPL, PTU and Election all of which where great, he’s a pretty underated actor.
“It’s like a cute ol’ cuddly panda bear snapped one day and decided to shove bamboo shoots up the zookeeper’s ass.” … LOL
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