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Movie
Synopsis:
Scientists experiment on Power glove are on the
verge of success. Power glove is designed to active the unknown
power in human's brain to empower the force of human beings. Special
agent Dark, Thunder and War 21 are the only survivors in that
experiment. Ambitious War 21 gets evil. He captures Thunder with
a power glove and disappears...He has become Dark's fugitive for
20 years. Two decades later. War 21 comes back with brainwashed
Thunder and his underground troop aiming to rule the world. Dark
is failed to eliminate them but he realizes Thunder has a son
who also has the DNA, which enable him to use the power glove
to challenge War 21, eventually...
DVD
EXTRAS:
Trailer
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None
that I know of
DVD
REVIEW:
When
I heard that "Avenging Fist" was going to be out on
DVD, I had this grin on my face because of the "Tekken"
hype surrounding the movie.
I
finished watching "Avenging Fist" starring Ekin Cheng, Gigi Leung,
Lee Hom Wang, Kristy Yeung, Sammo Hung, Stephen Fung and more.
Anyway,
this movie has a lot of people you may have seen from many HK
movies and a few big names which adds to the allure of the film.
Also, the special effects are pretty cool and the futuristic look
ala "Blade Runner" was very nice.
This
movie is definitely not "Tekken", it's more like "Tekken", "Street
Fighter 2" and "Dragon Ball Z" mixed together.
The
only thing that "Tekken" has to do with this film is that it's
a fighting movie (ala videogame like fighting movie) and the main
character (Leehom Wang, the guy who played Aaron Kwok's partner
on China Strike Force) has hair like Kazuya which is pretty cool.
The only thing that "Street Fighter 2" has to do with it is the
fighting characters and Combat-21 (think M. Bison, or if you are
in East Asia think Vega). The only thing that "DBZ" has to do
with this is the ending segment which is reminiscent of how DBZ
ended with Goku's battle with Boo.
Anyway,
the plot is humans can only use 10% of their brain. What would
happen if humans can tap into the other 90% which is called the
"Forbidden Zone". Anyway in the past: Thunder was a guy who perfect
the martial art of the "Avenging Fist". As a police officer, he
and two others - Dark and Combat 21 were chosen to test the power
glove which would allow police officers to tap into the 90% but
something goes wrong. Now it's twenty years later and Thunder's
twins: Nova (Wang) and Belle (She was the female partner in "For
Bad Boys Only") are twins that have special talents. Nova for
fighting and learning his dead father's "Avenging Fist" and Belle
with her power for producing heat. Nova never knew what happened
to his father, his mother is not saying anything. Nova's goal
is to have a "Power Glove" for himself, not knowing what it's
for...just knowing that police officer's use it to kick butt.
The day of his birthday, his mom has a surprise but Nova and Belle
are in for a surprise when their father Thunder reappears.
If anything, people who love video games especially fighting video
games or anime will love this movie. As for the DVD, it only comes
with a trailer. No special features which sucks. But this is the
first time I seen a DVD featuring DTS 6.1 and Digital Dolby EX
on a HK DVD. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't feature great surround
sound like GEN-X Cops but it's ok.
English
subs are good but with the typical typos in HK film.
All
in all a great film for those who enjoy video game fighting movies
and anime. If you don't enjoy these type of movies, then you may
want to pass.
THE MOVIE: B+
THE DVD EXTRAS: D-
THE DVD OVERALL: C
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