New Trailer For Wilson Yip's Flashpoint!

Oh man, I'm really anxious to see this. I gotta give mad props to Donnie for trying to push the envelope by incorporing some fresh techniques not seen before onscreen. The fight cheorgraphy looks methodically provoking. I especially like the part when Collin slams Donnie off a roof of a building to escape the arm lock or when Donnie throws a brutal punch into Xing Yu's face and we can clearly see it landed.

Fantastic. I don't think ANYTHING is going to top this action-wise this year.

come on people. I will watch almost anything from Hong Kong and, that said, I don't get hyped about much anymore. That trailer looked like bits of Exiled, bits of Election, big bits of Dog Bite Dog, and bits of SPL.

You know, Wo Hu had a good trailer too. As did Protege.

SPL was wildly overrated -- action scenes *were* amazing but the rest of the film was not even as good as an old Ekin Cheng triad movie from the 1990s.

I want more than one of two set pieces and a threadbare plot.

Protege was pretty good, and I thought Election 1 and 2 were great as was Exiled.

Give me something like those films over just action anyday.

Of course, I will see this anyway. Just ratcheting down my expectations.

Wo Hu was good for something that was produced by Wong Jing. Probably cause he wasn't actually on the set for most of the film, but it's real decent given the state HK film is in.

Here the download link http://www.gscmovies.com.my/trailer/flashpoint_trailer.wmv

glenn - give us some ekin cheng recommendations and trailers?... any HK you care to mention in particular besides these? always going to be those who don't know what you necessarily do, so sharing helps people to find those thing you might believe they should already be considering.

Donnie Yen vs. Collin Chou is more than enough to make me want to see this, but now I'm even more excited in seeing that superkicker Yu Xing, probably best known for his role as Coolie in 'Kung Fu Hustle', has a role in the film, and not only that, but Yuji Shimomura - 'Versus' action director and 'Death Trance' director - is also involved... Although I'm not sure whether it's a behind or in front of the camera role.

For more, check out Flashpointthemovie.com and click on "Ultimate Fighters" and "Concept of Movie's Action Design", which were just recently added.

One Night in Mongkok which is Daniel Wu not Ekin Cheng is pretty good and gritty but not necessarily an action/fighting film.

Off the top of my head, any of the Young and Dangerous films which are not great, are pretty interchangeable, and I've not seen them all.

BUT once you watch a few you get the feel of the whole 1980s/1990s HK triad genre.

I think Election 1 and 2 are essential and then move on to Exiled.

Election 1 and 2 managed to be tight, concise plot-boilers, not too action heavy, uniquely HK, and they built on early eras of film.

And, of course, The Mission which has a few good set pieces but is ultimately about the characters of the actors.

P.S., of course, check out the copious and well-written reviews on lovehkfilm.com (shameless plug)

Ross' website helped me IMMEASUREABLY in navigating, and catching up with, most modern genres in HK cinema 1980s - 1990s - now.

Agreed. It's a great site...Oh, and so is this one. :)