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snowynightThe Heroic Trio is a Hong Kong 1993 action film starring three female film stars lead: Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, and Maggie Cheung.
It is Hong Kong cinema's answer to flashy superhero films: impressive visuals, non-stop action fights, high stake adventures, evil organization with grandiose plans, and great music.
Most importantly, it focuses on three distinctive action heroines and their messy relationships with each other.
The film starts with a martial art master training two girls, Tung (Anita Mui) and Qing (Michelle Yeoh). He does nothing when Qing falls off the cliff, and forbids Tung from saving her.
Following the norm of martial art and wuxia media, Qing survives but gets taken in by an evil organization aiming to restore monarchy in China (don't ask).
Years later, 18 newborn babies are abducted in two months. The kidnapper is able to slip away without anyone noticing, and issues an open challenge to steal away the police commissioner's upcoming baby. The kidnapping would have succeeded until a masked superheroine intervened and saved the baby.
With an invisibility cloak, Qing is ordered to kidnap babies to grow the future emperor. Tung is a housewife married to a police detective by day, superheroine by night. The former friends are on different sides.
Meanwhile, a ruthless bounty hunter Chat (Maggie Cheung) is determined to earn the bounty for the baby abduction crime at any cost. She is actually Qing's old acquaintance.
The film centres around these three women with shared horrible pasts. They starred in a lot of action fights, sometimes with or against each other because they all have different agendas and conflicted feeling about each other.
The movie doesn't pull its punch. Chat risks a baby to capture the superheroine, and
the baby dies.
. Qing's love interest
is beheaded by her fellow operative
.
It's remarkable how the movie centred on the three heroines. They all have distinctive personalities. Qing's bond with Tung and Chat ends up as the key for their destruction of the evil organization.
Original Trailer:
It is Hong Kong cinema's answer to flashy superhero films: impressive visuals, non-stop action fights, high stake adventures, evil organization with grandiose plans, and great music.
Most importantly, it focuses on three distinctive action heroines and their messy relationships with each other.
The film starts with a martial art master training two girls, Tung (Anita Mui) and Qing (Michelle Yeoh). He does nothing when Qing falls off the cliff, and forbids Tung from saving her.
Following the norm of martial art and wuxia media, Qing survives but gets taken in by an evil organization aiming to restore monarchy in China (don't ask).
Years later, 18 newborn babies are abducted in two months. The kidnapper is able to slip away without anyone noticing, and issues an open challenge to steal away the police commissioner's upcoming baby. The kidnapping would have succeeded until a masked superheroine intervened and saved the baby.
With an invisibility cloak, Qing is ordered to kidnap babies to grow the future emperor. Tung is a housewife married to a police detective by day, superheroine by night. The former friends are on different sides.
Meanwhile, a ruthless bounty hunter Chat (Maggie Cheung) is determined to earn the bounty for the baby abduction crime at any cost. She is actually Qing's old acquaintance.
The film centres around these three women with shared horrible pasts. They starred in a lot of action fights, sometimes with or against each other because they all have different agendas and conflicted feeling about each other.
The movie doesn't pull its punch. Chat risks a baby to capture the superheroine, and
Spoiler
the baby dies.
Spoiler
is beheaded by her fellow operative
It's remarkable how the movie centred on the three heroines. They all have distinctive personalities. Qing's bond with Tung and Chat ends up as the key for their destruction of the evil organization.
Original Trailer:
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Date: 2024-02-04 12:57 pm (UTC)your synopsis and the youtube trailer are WILD and i love them. it looks like a mix between wuxia and hong kong cop drama.
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Date: 2024-02-04 01:06 pm (UTC)(Is your layout new? It's really pretty!)
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Date: 2024-02-04 01:25 pm (UTC)I love the layout too. It's so cheerful.
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Date: 2024-02-09 04:44 pm (UTC)That trailer looked really trippy.
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