Silverhawk
2003
Lucy Wong is a millionairess and lives the life of a celebrity. However in secret she exists as the Silverhawk, a crime fighting super woman, master of martial arts and surrounded by high-tech gadgetry. When a scientist involved in Artificial Intelligence is abducted the Silverhawk discovers that super villain Alexander Wolfe .. Read more
| Starring | Michelle Yeoh, Luke Goss |
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| Director | Jingle Ma |
| Genres | Action/Adventure |
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
HONG KONG PHOOEY
Silverhawk is like a grown up version of the Power Rangers. That is not to say that this is a bad thing. Throw in some over the top acting(as only Asian cinema does), some badies in silly costumes, some cheesy comedy oneliners etc and the usual good versus evil storyline mixed in with some excellent martial arts and you have SILVERHAWK. That said some of the sets are very good and production values do look expensive and people will recognise a couple of the actors - Michelle Yeoh and Luke Goss.
In all this is a good cheesy Asian film not be taken to seriously and a bit tongue in cheek with a couple of excellent standout fighting moments and the added bonus of being acted in English not dubbed over. -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
dont bother!!!
If you a 13 year old teen this campy superhero hero fest is just up your stree!
This makes the movie batman and robin seem like citizen kane -
Average
Michelle Yeoh produced this film, and it does have some great action set pieces. It starts very well with a fight on the top of a container lorry, but soon sinks into B grade movie doldrums. Luke Goss never really looks comfortable as the typical comic book baddie, even though, through the aid of wires he does look like he can throw down with the best of them. The problem with this film is once you get past the fight sequences this is very shallow stuff. The dubbing is poor (Why no original soundtrack?) and the acting, apart from the leads, is laughable. Entertaining in spurts. This could have been so much better than it turned out.
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
HONG KONG PHOOEY
Silverhawk is like a grown up version of the Power Rangers. That is not to say that this is a bad thing. Throw in some over the top acting(as only Asian cinema does), some badies in silly costumes, some cheesy comedy oneliners etc and the usual good versus evil storyline mixed in with some excellent martial arts and you have SILVERHAWK. That said some of the sets are very good and production values do look expensive and people will recognise a couple of the actors - Michelle Yeoh and Luke Goss.
In all this is a good cheesy Asian film not be taken to seriously and a bit tongue in cheek with a couple of excellent standout fighting moments and the added bonus of being acted in English not dubbed over. -
very fast.
This movie was fast & furious not much of a story but lot's & lot's of action.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
HONG KONG PHOOEY
Silverhawk is like a grown up version of the Power Rangers. That is not to say that this is a bad thing. Throw in some over the top acting(as only Asian cinema does), some badies in silly costumes, some cheesy comedy oneliners etc and the usual good versus evil storyline mixed in with some excellent martial arts and you have SILVERHAWK. That said some of the sets are very good and production values do look expensive and people will recognise a couple of the actors - Michelle Yeoh and Luke Goss.
In all this is a good cheesy Asian film not be taken to seriously and a bit tongue in cheek with a couple of excellent standout fighting moments and the added bonus of being acted in English not dubbed over. -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
dont bother!!!
If you a 13 year old teen this campy superhero hero fest is just up your stree!
This makes the movie batman and robin seem like citizen kane -
Average
Michelle Yeoh produced this film, and it does have some great action set pieces. It starts very well with a fight on the top of a container lorry, but soon sinks into B grade movie doldrums. Luke Goss never really looks comfortable as the typical comic book baddie, even though, through the aid of wires he does look like he can throw down with the best of them. The problem with this film is once you get past the fight sequences this is very shallow stuff. The dubbing is poor (Why no original soundtrack?) and the acting, apart from the leads, is laughable. Entertaining in spurts. This could have been so much better than it turned out.
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dont bother!!!
If you a 13 year old teen this campy superhero hero fest is just up your stree!
This makes the movie batman and robin seem like citizen kane -
Worth a watch
I'm a big fan of Michelle Yeoh but this isn't one of her best appearances - the fight sequences are rather unbelievable and the acting a bit lightweight. However, it is a distracting watch for 90 minutes.
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Entertaining enough!
Not a masterpiece of Asian cinema but then again not a bad movie as long as you're not expecting anything too cerebral. All the actors look like they're having fun, there are some good action sequences and Luke Goss hams it up like a good 'un. I've seen much worse films!
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not bad
not wot i expected i think coz michelle yeoh is in it i expected non stop action. the action and fight scenes r ok. if u a hardcore m-arts fan like me this aint for u.
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Great..recommended
Fancy a light hearted, no brainer with lots of action? then look no further!
Luke Goss (from the 80's band Bros) stars - he's come a long way from being a so called dumb, blonde drummer and Michelle Yeoh is as sexy as ever. -
Pretty average silliness
Pretty average piece of silliness that just never gets going. The Cantonese version may be a bit better as some of the actors struggle at times with their English (scenes were actually filmed in Cantonese and then again in English, not dubbed) so some scenes tend to be a bit stilted. Don't watch this expecting a martial arts film either as what martial arts there is, is pretty poor. Too much of it is in slow motion or cut too quickly, which is employed to make it look 'fast and pacey' but what it really means is that there isn't actually that much martial arts on display. This is becoming more common in Hong Kong and other Asian films and is too much like American martial arts films. I guess it's more to do with many younger actors in these films never having any real formal martial arts training and learn their moves on set. Or it's because it's supposedly the sort of thing the 'MTV generation' likes. For me, a punch, then cut, then a kick, then cut, then maybe a combination of a kick and punch is pretty boring. Oh for the days when a fight choreographer and actors with some real martial arts background could choreograph a fight without cutting to a new angle after each punch or kick.
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Customer Review
I'm a fan of Asian cinema of all varieties, but unfortunately this particular one was really quite poor. It's got that bad, unnecessary dubbing you sometimes get in Asian films where English is spoken over the actors' own speech, which itself looks kindof like it was in English to start with. Regardless, they should either let the actors speak English if they can, or just use subtitles if not, not something in between.
My own gripes about subtitling aside, the other aspects of the film was pretty average at best. Fight scenes were mixed, but generally not up to par. A lot of needless jumping around and other nonsense which, in most films, would be both comical and welcome, in this just seemed pointless.
The story and characters were all the sort of thing you're sure to have seen before. Again, not always a bad thing if it's done well but in this case it was really nothing to write home about.
The main charcter (Michelle Yeoh, in the Silver Hawk guise of the title) smiled constantly at times. Something that reminded me a lot of Andy Lau's character in Fulltime Killer, although sadly this film has nowhere near as many redeeming features.
Michelle Yeoh's performance isn't bad all the same, but could be better, and the film itself could be a lot better. A shame then, since she's so good in other films, as are those films themselves.
Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop
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Silverhawk
Lucy Wong is a millionairess and lives the life of a celebrity. However in secret she exists as the Silverhawk, a crime fighting super woman, master of martial arts and surrounded by high-tech gadgetry. When a scientist involved in Artificial Intelligence is abducted the Silverhawk discovers that ...
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