Reviews of Seoul Raiders

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SEOUL RAIDERS
Directed by Jingle Ma
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Shu Qi, Richie Jen, Meme Tian, Saki Seto, Choi Yei Jin, Cho Su Hyoun, Cho Han Na

Review By Sharon Wong (sharonwkk@yahoo.com)

THE name is Leung ... Tony Leung.

That’s right. The Chinese James Bond is back in blockbuster Seoul Raiders, the sequel to director Jingle Ma’s very successful Tokyo Raiders.

Similar to its predecessor, Seoul Raiders is an action-comedy with Tony Leung Chiu Wai reprising his role as special agent Lam. There’s a change of location and co-stars but he is still surrounded by leggy beauties.

This time, he wants to get his hands on a pair of counterfeit plates but encounters a new nemesis in Owen (Richie Jen), a United States embassy employee who manages to con him and escape to Korea.

Lam is hot on Owen’s heels, followed by cat burglar JJ (Shu Qi) who wants in on the action. In Korea, they stumble upon the largest counterfeit organisation in Asia led by the legendary “Polar Bear” and thus begins a cat-and-mouse game that gives you plenty of heart-stopping action with a dash of humour.

It’s always a pleasure to watch Leung in action, especially when he turns on the charm. But he looks a little haggard at times and, given his rather small frame, hardly cuts a James Bond figure. The effect certainly isn’t the same when the action hero has to look up at his enemy, or when the female sidekicks are of the same height, maybe even a little taller. Then again it’s Tony Leung, and when he flashes that famous grin and gives that certain look, you forget all the minor details.

Shu Qi is as pretty as ever, handling her stunts beautifully. Her Cantonese has also improved.

Owen presents Jen with a meatier role compared with Jen’s first villain role in Breaking News. This is a character he can sink his teeth into.

Seoul Raiders as excellent action scenes. Apparently, the lead actors did their own stunts. Check out the battle between Leung and Jen at a hot springs resort and the finale where a plane tries to take off on a highway.

The overall plot is nothing to shout about and has too many loopholes and far-fetched situations. But there is a nice twist at the end that allows you to leave the cinema smiling.
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http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/showbizreviews/0,5597,300036,00.html?

Soul-less Seoul raids cupboard of cliches

SEOUL RAIDERS (PG)

98 minutes

AFTER tangling with Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen in 2000's Tokyo Raiders, super-cool government agent Tony Leung travels to Seoul to repeat the same routine with thieves Richie Jen and Shu Qi in a popcorn caper that keeps going back and forth.


Tony Leung (right) wrestles with a henchman in the disposable caper Seoul Raiders.
You know it is popcorn because Leung simply coasts through this action-comedy with affable charm, stopping for the numerous fight scenes which outdo Tokyo Raiders presumably to cover up a glaring lack of plot.

In a merry tussle on a subway train, Leung and Jen joust like clowns to get their hands on a pair of counterfeit currency templates, also coveted by Shu Qi and a Korean criminal gang.

Director Jingle Ma treats this show like a jingle by infusing it with Hong Kong-style cuteness - including a punishment-by-wasabi scene - that reduces men to boys and Shu Qi to abject childishness.

The trio are likeable, but you wonder how a show like this goes to Korea, home to interesting Asian films, only to come up with three token Korean chicks hanging around Leung as his kick-butt babes.

A Lonely Planet travel guide would have given you more. -- Tay Yek Keak
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Tiresome cat & mouse chase
Seoul Raiders

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Richie Jen, Shu Qi

Director: Jingle Ma

Rating: ***

THE Chinese New Year season traditionally rings in big money for the box office.

Action comedy Tokyo Raiders was a big hit during the festive season in 2000 and, clearly, director Jingle Ma is hoping to repeat its success with this sequel.

Tony Leung (right) reprises his role as secret agent Lam, who is tasked to track down a pair of plates for making counterfeit notes.

Corrupt intelligence officer Owen Lee (Richie Jen) has absconded to Seoul with the plates to sell to mafia top dog Polar Bear.

Lam heads to Seoul to stop Owen, but meets bounty hunter JJ (Shu Qi), who insists on helping Lam arrest Owen so that she can have a share of the reward.

After watching Tony turn on his sensitive charm too often in movies like 2046 and Sound Of Colours, you forget that this man can kick butt in action scenes too.

Just watch him fight Richie in a hot bath and on a subway train - Tony probably didn't have much help from the stuntman too, for he hurt his ribs while filming.

But Richie, who looks inexplicably tired in this movie with puffy eyebags and wrinkles, turns in yet another of his expressionless baddie performances. Some of his screen time could have been given to Shu Qi, who has an unfortunate throwaway role.

While there are pockets of ingenuity and humour, Seoul Raiders felt like a tiresome extended Tom-and-Jerry chase at times, until the twist reveals itself two-thirds into the movie.

Then it culminates in an overly-grandiose showdown at Seoul's Olympic Stadium, with helicopters, parachuters, sports cars and even a small airplane coming in for a high-speed chase.

A case of too much too late. - Wendy Teo
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In The Mood for laughs

Reviewed by Lim Chang Moh
428 words
12 February 2005
The Malay Mail
44
English
(c) 2005 New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad

SEOUL RAIDERS (Cantonese) (U) (comedy) GSC & TGV circuits Time: 98 minutes Rating: *** HOW would you like to watch an espionage movie which does not have a single gunshot fired? If that sounds cool, wait till you catch Tony Leung Chiu-Wai reprising his role as Japanese Special Agent Lam in this sequel to Tokyo Raiders.

The opening sequences should set the mood of the entire movie: While fighting a bunch of thugs after stealing a pair of US dollar printing plates in Hong Kong, Lam's hair gets disheveled.

"You can do anything to me, but don't ever mess with my hair," he admonishes his opponents, whipping up an oversized comb to groom himself! Throw in 'hot chick' Shu Qi as Jay-jay, a 'reluctant' partner who is also after the plates, and we have a rip-roaring spoof that should fit the bill as light-hearted entertainment for the Chinese New Year season.

The counterfeit printing plates soon get into the hands of a US Embassy staff named Owen (Richie Jen) who scoots off to Seoul to sell them to a mobster named Polar Bear.

Agent Lam follows, teaming up with three luscious South Korean agents whom we may term 'Lam's Angels'.

Every sequence is played for laughs as Lam, Jay-Jay and the three girls confront the counterfeit gang.

Yeah, none of the mobsters carry guns and the fighting sequences are more of a brawl than martial art pieces.

Then, when we finally get to see a gun being whipped out at the end of the movie, it is more for show than shooting.

This over-the-top spoof works because of the chemistry among Tony Leung, Shu Qi and Richie Jen.

Leung's tongue-in-cheek rendition of an Asian James Bond is hilarious because we are never sure when he is serious or joking.

Shu Qi, on the other hand, manages to keep us rooting for her as the 'poor girl in search of wealth'.

Her acting has also improved since her role in So Close.

I have never thought much of Richie Jen's acting but he is funny enough here to earn his paycheck.

The three 'foxy' Lam's Angels, who are South Korea's budding models and actresses, are mainly to provide eye candy.

Jingle Ma's Tokyo Raiders was a huge success in 2000 but he has outdone himself with this sequel.

RATING GUIDE:

**** NOT TO BE MISSED *** GOOD VALUE ** ONLY AT A LOOSE END * STAY HOME

this one is sadistic review...well SR isn't as good as TR but it's not that bad either. And though tony doesn't have to work hard here, i don't think he's ridiculous at all. at least SR is not Hero Beyond the Boundary of Time...now that's ridiculous!

Stay clear of Seoul Raiders

Reviewed by Ricky Yap
506 words
13 February 2005
Sunday Mail
19
English
(c) 2005 New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad

Movie: SEOUL RAIDERS Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Richie Jen and Shu Qi A HALF-BAKED plot, lame dialogue and unbalanced direction by Jingle Ma (who also wrote the script) make Seoul Raiders an unpalatable fare.

It is obvious this Hong Kong sequel to the 2000 box-office hit, Tokyo Raiders, which Ma also helmed, was made with the intention of breaking into the South Korean market, what with its array of stars from that country.

But Ma should not have bothered with this weak and laughable attempt.

Leung is the only star retained from the original movie, reprising his role as "bounty-hunter" Lam.

He should have just joined its two other original co-stars - Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen Wei-Lam - who had the good sense to stay away from this production.

Instead, Leung comes away with a black stain on his glittering resume with a portrayal that borders on foolhardiness, if not childishness.

Likewise, Seoul Raiders taints Ma's impeccable record where he does not hold steady reins over this outing, wavering, between gags that fall flat and fight sequences that lack sting and cohesiveness.

And one questions the logic of having each fight scene accompanied by loud music (with even a Korean song thrown in during a scuffle in a spa pool) that is grating on the ears.

There is also Shu Qi's character, JJ (also a bounty-hunter), whose inclusion is ill-defined, other than to serve as fodder for a love triangle sub-plot, that does not materialise.

As the plot goes, Lam beats JJ to stealing a set of counterfeit American dollar plates, known as "The Avenger", in Hong Kong.

Lam tries to claim a reward from the American Consulate, where he is met by Special Agent Owen (Jen).

However, Lam soon realises it's all a set-up and he has been hoodwinked, with the "Avenger" now in Owen's hands.

It turns out Owen wants to sell the plates at a higher price to a counterfeit gang in Seoul, whose mastermind is known as "Polar Bear".

And so, one finds Lam jetting off to Seoul, where he enlists three of his assistants, played by comely Korean starlets, to help track down Owen.

Naturally, there's more to meet the eye than what is actually going on, but by then, one does not give a hoot about what happens next.

It is really discomforting to see an award-winning actor like Leung stooping so low in a role that insults even his own intelligence, with the subway train journey being one prime example.

Just as one thought he has improved after his breakthrough performance in Breaking News, Jen regresses to another pedestrian portrayal as Owen.

Stay away from this yawner if you don't want to spoil your festive mood.

You have been warned.

A Chinese New Year presentation by Golden Screen Cinemas at selected cineplexes.

* ntv7 is scheduled to screen The Making Of at 7.30pm today.
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Review from The Star Online (Malaysia). www.thestar.com.my

Recycled Raiders

By MICHAEL A. FREDERICKS

Seoul Raiders

Rating(out of 5): * * *

(Golden Screen Cinemas)

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Richie Jen, Shu Qi, Meme Tian, Saki Seto, Choi Yei Jin, Jo Su-Hyun, Cho Hanna, James Kim, Jung Jin

Sometimes it's okay to recycle.
Cinematographer-turned-director Jingle Ma does it with Seoul Raiders, basically transplanting much of the first movie Tokyo Raiders from, er, Tokyo to Seoul (duh!), and things seem all fine and dandy, and not too bad


HEEYAH!...This one's for not giving up your seat to the poor old lady! Didn't you learn anything from Pendidikan Moral?


BAD HAIR DAY...I'm gonna sue someone for this.

In fact, I'd venture to say that Seoul comes out the better of the two for being less convoluted and confusing.

It offers the same mix of action, humour, and style, but keeps character development to a minimum; we'll know as much about Tony Leung's character coming out of Seoul as much as we know about him going in, with what we gained from Tokyo.

Leung returns as Lam, the cool cattleprod-toting private investigator/clandestine operative/ladies man who's really a mischievous but resourceful kid at heart. We meet him very early on in the show as he pulls off an inelaborate heist in the company of unwanted competition in the form of JJ (Shu Qi) whom we learn very little about in the course of the movie.

Lam outsmarts JJ and gets away with the prize - a pair of steel plates, used for making counterfeit US dollar bills - only to lose it to Owen (Richie Ren) who is under the employ of the very organisation Lam is supposed to return it to, the US Government.

Owen scurries off to Korea with the stolen plates, determined to do business with the local crime lord Polar Bear, a mysterious figure who often works behind the scenes; his public face being his second-in-command Black Bear (James Kim) and translator Kim (Meme Tian).

Lam gives chase, making his way to Seoul to retrieve what he has lost. Once there, we meet his Angels (as in Charlie's), three high-kicking Korean beauties who call him Bossy (Bosley?) and function much like decorative furniture. Like the bevy of Japanese beauties from Tokyo we don't really mind the hows and whats of their function, just so long as they're there.

JJ also makes an appearance in Seoul to offer her services to Lam to hunt down Owen. He accepts, and much Tokyo-like action and humour ensues.However. things - people, situations, occurences - may not be as they seem.

But while the original used this formula to confusing effect, here in Seoul, things are far less muddled; in fact, it is possible to guess the denouement beforehand. I'm not exactly sure if that's a good thing, but at least it's not confusing.

What I know is an improvement: everybody this time around seems just a tad less serious compared to the original. Even Shu Qi, who generally pouts and mumbles rather than act, made me smile when she disguises herself as a man in one scene.

Seoul Raiders proves that sometimes it's okay to rehash old stuff, if you have a mind to better it. In this case, bettering means simplifying.

And "simple" movies, they make perfect fodder for the CNY season. Gong Xi Fa Cai!

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oh that's really a terrible pic of tony LOL thanx looney for adding this hilarious review...
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from loveHKfilm.com

Seoul Raiders
Year: 2005
Director: Jingle Ma Chor-Sing
Writer: Jingle Ma Chor-Sing
Action: Alien Sit Chun-Wai
Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Richie Ren, Shu Qi, Meme Tian, Choi Yeo-Jin, Cho Soo-Hyun, Cho Han-Na
The Skinny: Passable Lunar New Year fluff for the masses. Seoul Raiders neither thrills nor insults, and is ultimately less interesting than the paper-thin original. Affection for the stars is an absolute must.

Review by Kozo:
It's been five years since Tokyo Raiders was a Lunar New Year hit, and nobody was really clamoring for a sequel. Regardless, they made one anyway: Seoul Raiders. Director Jingle Ma, whose last film was the egregious Silver Hawk, brings back Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Lam, the toughest Chinese private eye in Tokyo, and a secret member of the Japanese Security Bureau. Lam is essentially a secret agent who possesses free reign to engage in whatever law enforcement—or chaos-creating undercover activity—that he chooses. His latest target: "The Avenger", a set of flawless counterfeiting plates created by Middle Eastern interests as a way of sticking it to the United States. Lam steals them from a lockup in Central, and manages to escape with a pack of suit-clad baddies AND cat burglar JJ (Shu Qi) on his tail. But Lam is double-crossed by his CIA contact, Chinese-American agent Owen (Richie Ren), who drugs Lam and takes off with the plates. Doh!
Owen's plan is to sell "the Avenger" to Polar Bear, a mysterious Korean gangster who's wanted by every law enforcement agency around. Ergo, Owen heads to Korea and Lam follows him. True to his established modus operandi, Lam quickly enlists a trio of hot Korean babes to act as his entourage. Played by virtual unknowns Choi Yeo-Jin, Cho Soo-Hyn, and Cho Han-Na, the girls are all too happy to drop whatever it is they're doing when Lam whistles. Besides being a super-cool secret agent, Lam is apparently an incredibly popular ladies man who has women in every country at his beck and call—even though he seems to have no desire to touch them. The women hop on board the Lam vs. Owen train just in time for a series of nonstop chases through Korea's clean urban streets. Meanwhile, JJ shows up wanting a cut of Lam's action and the Korean bad guys glower, overact, and generally act ineffectual. All this, plus fighting and an abundance of smarmy acting by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. Somehow this is all supposed to be amusing.
Amazingly, it is amusing, though in the slightest way possible. Seoul Raiders has a ridiculous concept that's thin even by Hong Kong's usual paper-thin standards. Jingle Ma has referred to his Raiders franchise as a Hong Kong James Bond, but Bond would never get worked up over cases this silly or bad guys this inept. Even though there are supposedly serious things at stake (lives, economies, possible terrorist interests), it's all put aside for the jokey, smarmy antics of Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, whose billed as the most super-cool Asian spy EVER. Granted, since Chow Yun-Fat is no longer available, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is probably the coolest Hong Kong actor around, and he gamely mugs and smirks his way through the incredibly slight script. Richie Ren is a likably dopey foil, and Shu Qi barely registers enough screen time to charm. Jingle Ma and action director Alien Sit string things together with lots of obviously-doubled fight sequences and sometimes draggy cat-and-mouse antics. After a while, the chasing just gets old, and one has to wonder if anything else is going to happen besides the "Lam finds Owen, fights Owen, then loses Owen" pattern that gets repeated ad nauseum.
Thankfully, the film does improve via a plot twist that's as obvious as it is welcome. Ultimately, sides are chosen, people put in peril, and Lam must save the day with more slow chase sequences and some thankfully-reduced smarminess. Once it's all over, everyone goes back to their current countries, and the possibility of a Tibet Raiders, Kuala Lumpur Raiders, or maybe Istanbul Raiders is created. This is ultra-fluffy, audience-friendly entertainment at its most frivolous—which is why slapping around Seoul Raiders for being mediocre (which it is), insubstantial (which it is), or just plain unnecessary (which it is) feels a tad too harsh. There are much better films than Seoul Raiders, and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai could even be judged as slumming, but the utter lightness of the production prevents it from becoming insulting. Unlike the first Tokyo Raiders, which injected some annoying soul-searching from Kelly Chen into the film, Seoul Raiders' brief attempt at emotional weight is played for laughs. The laughs themselves are not very substantial, but at least they're not bothersome. If it sounds like I'm shrugging my shoulders at this movie, you're not far off.
Those who check out Seoul Raiders looking for another Kung Fu Hustle will be rightfully pissed off; this is recycled, unoriginal commercial filmmaking that's not inspired in any way whatsoever. Jingle Ma is not a director known for his originality anyway; not only does he rip off music from Kill Bill, but he recycles jokes from the original Tokyo Raiders as if they were supposed to be memorable, classic comedy. Big surprise: they're not. The funniest stuff about Seoul Raiders—besides a brief sequence with Shu Qi in drag—is the fact that nobody other than Leung can speak Cantonese fluently. Some chase sequences go on far too long, and are weighed down by labored attempts at smarmy comedy, all punctuated by the omnipresent Tony Leung smirk. Jingle Ma rightfully leans on his star's established screen charisma, but sometimes a star can't do everything. Ma is credited with the direction AND the script of Seoul Raiders, and neither credit furthers the notion that Ma is a real filmmaker.
Still, it should be noted that the Lunar New Year is rarely a time for real filmmaking. Most films that get released during this period are designed for mass consumption, and Seoul Raiders handily fits that bill. Actually comparing this to real filmmaking would be fruitless, and the fact that the film isn't annoying is the main reason that I don't give it the unequivocal thumbs down. That said, the film is not as interesting as the first Tokyo Raiders, if only because that attempt at urban action-comedy was a somewhat fresh concept. All Seoul Raiders does is prove that the formula is passably entertaining, culturally indistinct (the film could really have been set anywhere besides Seoul), and really, really thin. This is middling stuff, but most people probably wouldn't care enough to figure that out. And if you like the stars, you're salivating to see this movie regardless of any criticism I heap at it. Ultimately, you could do a lot better, but you could do a lot worse. Take that for what it is. (Kozo 2005)
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REVIEWS; Seoul Raiders

321 words
17 February 2005
South China Morning Post
7
English
(c) 2005 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited, Hong Kong. All rights reserved.

Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Shu Qi, Richie Jen

Director: Jingle Ma Cho-sing

Category: IIA (Cantonese)

The Year of the Rooster gets off to an inauspicious start with this glossy, but vacuous, star-studded spectacle. Directed, scripted, and photographed by Jingle Ma, the film's first-rate production values and inane scenario are reminiscent of his Tokyo Raiders, a Lunar New Year release from 2000.

The movie begins on a promising note of satire, with devil-may-care thief Lam Kwai-yan (Tony Leung) battling mystery woman JJ (Shu Qi) and a score of tough guys over counterfeit US currency printing plates. Lam's prowess is matched by massive vanity - he pulls out a giant comb after castigating the adversaries for mussing his hair.

But such welcome hints of self-deprecating humour are few, as Lam journeys to Seoul and matches "wits" with JJ and renegade US agent Owen Lee (Richie Jen). Lam casts a spell over the beautiful women in his employ (a Japanese assistant and three Korean models-cum-kung fu aces), but their one-note bimbo qualities are never developed to the extent necessary to save them from sexist monotony.

The 99-minutes consists of skilfully staged skirmishes, light-hearted chatter and meaningless plot twists and turns - so meaningless that, three-quarters of the way through, Lam explains the narrative to Lee and, presumably, the audience.

The finale, in which the principals fight it out in a tiny plane careening down a Seoul avenue, is one of those concepts that might have sounded great on paper, but never gets off the ground.

Seoul Raiders shows that, when it comes to production values and star power, Hong Kong filmmakers have what it takes. The lacklustre audience response shows that, until a similar polish is applied to the content, viewers may prefer to wait for the DVD.

Paul Fonoroff

Seoul Raiders is screening now
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A Little Touch of Seoul
Tony Leung's presence goes some way to redeeming the trifling but fun action-comedy Seoul Raiders
BY BRYAN WALSH

Monday, Feb. 28, 2005
Thank God for Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The best actor working in Asian cinema today can redeem any scene and endow even the most artificial plot with a few degrees of soul. Like Chow Yun-fat before he disappeared into Hollywood, Leung seems able to rise above his material and effortlessly make off with any film. It's no surprise that he plays such an accomplished thief in his latest project, the diverting Seoul Raiders.

The movie is a sequel to 2000's highly successful Tokyo Raiders, by director Jingle Ma, whose name appropriately evokes the sound box-office cash registers were making this Lunar New Year season throughout the Chinese-speaking world. In Tokyo Raiders, Ma moved the standard Hong Kong action-comedy plot (cop, girl, gangsters, slow-motion spin kicks) to Japan. But Tokyo is so five minutes ago compared with red-hot Korea. Time for a remake. Leung and his fellow Tokyo cast members are sent packing to Seoul. Leung plays Lam, a master burglar out to nick a pair of ultra-valuable currency-printing plates, which, if they fell into the wrong hands, would allow criminal forces to flood the U.S. market with counterfeit bills. That's why both Korean mobsters and "Arab dissenters," in the curious words of Leung's character, are desperate to get their own hands on the goods. (Maybe they've invested heavily in the euro.) Leung nabs them, but on his way to claim his reward from a grateful U.S. government, he's waylaid and re-robbed by rival thief Owen Lee (Richie Jen). That sets off a cat-and-cat game between Leung and Jen in Seoul, with pillow-lipped, helium-voiced JJ (Shu Qi) as a third thief who fetchingly gets in everyone's way. As the story unfolds, the plot ties itself into some complicated knots, despite the best efforts of director Ma, who has the characters stop punching and kicking each other every five minutes or so to explain what's going on.

Presumably these expository time-outs also give the actors a chance to catch their breath between nearly non-stop action sequences. Ma, who worked with Jackie Chan on some of the superstar's best films, can shoot fight scenes that dodge and weave between ridiculous and dangerous. The 42-year-old Leung is no Jackie Chan (alas, neither is Jackie Chan these days), but he moves with a swashbuckling rhythm. Shu bats her eyes ferociously. Ma's easygoing balance gets a bit lost by the big finale. We won't say what happens, but it includes the line: "How can a plane collide with a bus?"

Seoul Raiders is a Lunar New Year movie, the cinematic equivalent of a red packet of lai see money. But it's Leung's laid-back attitude that makes this trifle go down easier, as he walks around Seoul with a Cheshire cat's grin. After four years of surviving endless takes by meticulous Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, who worked with him in the recent 2046, Leung deserves a New Year vacation away from his home city—and from self-serious filmmaking. (ed: yes indeed!!)
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I happened to have already watched Seoul Raiders... and it's not a bad movie, it's totally worthwhile watching...