Invisible Target

The action is great, and all the fight scenes are great. The only issue is that in the middle, the movie trails off and sort of becomes a "buddy cop comedy" thing for a while, which takes the movie down and just adds unneeded minutes to this film.

It is too long and needed some more editing to trim it down to a good 90 minutes. Overall the action is really good even if they are pushing Jackie Chan's kid a little too hard in this movie. They also give him a very very cheesy melodramatic scene towards the end which is kinda cringy. None of it worked and his career kinda went downhill and it is pretty much dead at this point.

Anyways, 7/10.

Director Benny Chang's fast paced crime thriller follows three Hong Kong cops relentlessly pursuing a ruthless gang of highly skilled crooks and murderers.

More entertaining and absorbing than you might expect, it's not often that action films which are over two hours long can hold the audience's attention for the duration, but in this case the film rarely retreats from the explosive opening scene. Perhaps it dwells for too long on the inherent good nature of the police officers, and there are no strong female characters worth noting. However, if it's violence, explosions and a possibly interpretive subtext you're after, this is a film you are more than likely going to enjoy.

Guns, martial arts, explosions, stunts and a pinch of philosophy: Invisible Target is a film almost as thought provoking as it is entertaining. IT

What can I say that the other rightly so positive reviewers haven't said? Not a lot really.

This was such an enjoyable film. It was reminiscent of the days of old for an Hong Kong action flick....crazy stunts with a second replay (like the old Jackie Chan flicks), plenty of excellent martial arts, explosions and gun play. I felt as if I was watching an early 80/90's film.

What impressed even more was that there was a very strong story to this film. Everything blended nicely. The main leads has good character development and were very likable. The bad guys.....they were bad!! No messing about, no morals...just downright bad.

With some of the so called action movie tosh that America churns out today, the west should start looking to Hong Kong and Korea to take a leaf out of their book to see how things are done (Flashpoint was also very good).

Watch this and you won't be disappointed.

Three police officers team up to capture a gang of robbers. One (Nicolas Tse) wants revenge for the death of his fiancée in an explosion caused by the bandits after a robbery. Another (Shawn Yue) wants payback for the humiliation caused by these men, who also injured his companions. And the third (Jaycee Chan) wants to discover the connection between the bandits and his missing brother, also a police officer.

I had to make a certain effort to sympathize with them, the script itself is quite captivating, it lacked a hint of humor, these police action dramas are always very serious, except for the tiny scene with the old man who writes the ticket and the old lady, there is little that escapes the brutal realism of the world of drug trafficking, crime, corruption and police persecution, and as such it does not always have a happy ending, despite the sense of justice and hope for equality. Anyway, an interesting film, although almost tiring, but good...

Sometimes I'm a bit surprised when IMDb ratings jive with what I'd rate a movie on a 1-10 scale. I think this movie is a pretty solid 7 so I'm glad to see that's pretty much where it is. But enough of that, onto the movie itself.

Released around the same time (and probably competing for much of the same audience) as the fantastic Donnie Yen movie Flash Point, Invisible Target provides some legitimate competition, albeit in the same sort of tired fashion of OCB cops doing the wrong things for the right reasons. If you're at all a fan of HK cinema you've no doubt seen this plot done to death but for some reason you're still a sucker for it. The fight scenes are very well done (would you expect any less from Jackie Chan's son?), the movie seems for the most part well paced, and it's got a solid story.

Now for the bad news. There's not much mind you, but there's some. First of all, for me, the movie seemed too long for it's own good. Yeah, it's only 2 hours but at points it feels stretched and padded for time. Where Flash Point is quite a bit shorter, it leaves you wanting a little more whereas Invisible Target makes you feel like you got too much. And the glass, oh the glass! Don't get too attached to anything breakable in this movie because it will invariably be punched through, kicked through, or fallen through. HK glass makers no doubt loved this movie...it's putting their kids through university.

All in all I'd definitely recommend this movie to anyone who's a fan of contemporary kung fu...just make sure you've got a good chunk of time set aside to watch it.