SHOCKWAVE 2017 MOVIE MOVIE
SHOCKWAVE 2017 MOVIE WINDOWS

JS Cheung (by Andy Lau), a Superintendent in Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau (EOD) of Hong Kong Police Force, went undercover seven years ago into the gang led by the most-wanted crime boss Peng Hong (by Jiang Wu).

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Summary: Shock Wave might boast grand set-pieces and Andy Lau in fine form, but it’s silly when it should be intense and is comprised of many familiar action thriller ingredients.How To Play Movie: For play Movie Click on Player icon 2 to 3 times until Movie Starts, Because Some Useless tab or windows opened just close them they are ADS.įor Fastest Buffering pause it for 5-10 minutes then continue playing!. Even with a few surprises flung our way, Shock Wave is largely predictable and is too melodramatic to take seriously. This fails to fully mitigate how formulaic the film is, compounded by how every time Yau tries for drama, he ends up with comedy instead. There’s also a subplot about the financial impact of the hostage crisis and how the CEO of the firm that operates the tunnel stands to profit from the situation, which isn’t quite as derivative as the rest of the film. Shock Wave features several clever set pieces and some elaborate, thrilling stunts. Louis Cheng pops up as a friendly tour guide, lending the film some welcome humanity. His anger at the situation and his concern for Cheung’s well-being is supposed to be moving, but instead, Keung overplays it to a silly degree. Philip Keung plays Cheung’s blustery superior at the police department, spending most of the film throwing a conniption fit.

She wants Cheung to say “I love you” to her, which he’s holding out on. Song’s Carmen is the designated-est girlfriend who ever girlfriended, barely registering as an entity in the film. This reviewer often refers to the protagonist’s love interests in action movies as ‘the designated girlfriend’. He spends the bulk of the film flailing and yelling, when this film clearly requires a cool, droll antagonist along the lines of Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber in Die Hard. For all the innocent people who die by his hand, Blast just isn’t scary. Jiang’s villainous Blast is barely menacing, and not just because one is wont to snicker every time the name ‘Blast’ shows up in the subtitles. While there is a good amount of action and Lau had to don a bomb disposal suit weighing 31 kg, the role doesn’t require very much of him. Lau is as suave and charming as he usually is, playing the confident bomb disposal expert. The dialogue is overwrought, emotional scenes are all too maudlin, and when the film should be at its tensest, it’s unintentionally hilarious. The screenplay by Yau and Erica Li is packed with clichés, with the influence of various Hollywood action thrillers including Blown Away, Speed and The Dark Knight and all the Die Hard movies plain to see. Alas, Shock Wave is also often patently ridiculous. The production values pass muster, with a massive full-scale replica of the Cross Harbour Tunnel entrance built for the film.

As one would expect of a film about a bomb disposal specialist, Shock Wave does not skimp on the explosions. Shock Wave reunites star and producer Lau with Herman Yau, who directed him in The Truth and Fascination Amour. As Cheung’s girlfriend Carmen (Song) awaits his safe return, the bomb defusal expert must face off against an unstoppable mad bomber, as the city braces for cataclysmic destruction. This culminates with Blast rigging Hong Kong’s Cross Harbour Tunnel with explosives, the terrorist and his men holding hundreds of commuters hostage. Now calling himself ‘Blast’, Hung toys with Cheung by planting several bombs for Cheung to defuse. 18 months ago, Cheung went undercover as a member of notorious criminal Hung Kai-pang’s (Jiang) gang, and Hung has wanted revenge ever since escaping Cheung’s grasp. Cheung heads up the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Department. Not quite as exciting as ‘ Shock Wave’, but it is an accurate description of our protagonist, Cheung Choi-san (Lau).

The original Chinese title of this action thriller translates to ‘ Bomb Dismantling Expert’.

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