Tokyo Raiders 東京攻略

[aznxmichael]

Casts:
Tony Leung
Ekin Cheng
Kelly Chen
Cecilia Cheung

Synopsis:

The monster Lunar New Year hit of 2000 features an all-star cast and all-star hijinks. Tony Leung Chiu-Wai stars as Lam, the toughest private eye in Tokyo. Despite his small stature and broken Japanese, he owns the Tokyo streets with his suave charisma and John Steed-like fighting skills. He falls in with jilted bride Macy (Kelly Chan), who arrives in Tokyo chasing her wayward groom Takahashi (Toru Nakamura of Gen-X Cops). Tailing her is interior designer Yung (Ekin Cheng), who’s after Takashi to settle a debt. Soon their paths cross and mayhem ensues. Various factions are after Macy for reasons not entirely unknown, and it seems that Lam and Yung may have a few secrets themselves.
Disbelief must be suspended during the course of this 2-hour action comedy as the fighting is over-the-top and the characters are beyond silly (Ekin Cheng as a five-time wushu champion?). Eventually the main plot is uncovered, and quite frankly it isn’t all that interesting. What saves the movie is action and lots of it. It seems every other scene contains some excuse for a fight or chase sequence. Leung handles himself well during his well-choreographed action scenes, and he even manages to do most of his own stunts. Cheng fakes his fighting pretty well, and he fits his annoying, wacky character to a T. Kelly Chan looks great, which is par for the course for her.
I’m not being too overly critical of this movie, which is another in HK’s big-budget action sweepstakes. I’ve begun to frown upon poorly-plotted HK action spectacles, but Tokyo Raiders manages to remind us that it’s all in the name of fun. Unlike the ridiculous 2000 A.D., Tokyo Raiders acknowledges its unrealism with the occasional wink to the audience. Director Jingle Ma doesn’t inject much unnecessary emotion into the film, and he rarely slows the pace. The only boring patches are the requisite soul-searching by Macy, who can’t understand the loss of her fiancée. After that, just forget about any cheesy romance angle. Watch for the action, the location (in addition to directing, Ma provides his usual superlative cinematography), and for Tony Leung, who once again shows why he's one of Hong Kong's most popular actors. His charm and easy charisma lets us know from frame one: this is all in fun. And it is.

[MonkEDong]

I always get a kick from Tony doing comedies. He has such a cool attitude and then he breaks out with a joke which makes it funny. This is the best one out of the series so dont expect too much. Overall, its entertaining 6/10.

[zhiliang81]

Ok movie. I like ekin and kelly in it

[tvbmania]

Tony's acting in this movie is super cool................... 10/10

[~Cherish~]

I love the way Tony Leung acts. He is so good in the movie.

[wantana000]

Watched this a while ago. Yeah, I like how Tony acts as well.
I especially like the way Ekin and Tony interacts with each other, very funny. It is overall an enjoyable movie.

[jenny07]

Watched this movie sometime ago but quite a nice movie because we can see some action there and both Ekin and Tony are so funny and both of them make a good partner to solve the investigation

[noonametoo]

this movie was not as good as I expected it to be. Wish it would have been better, especially with an All-star cast.