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6.3/10
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When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
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- 1 win & 10 nominations total
Louis Cheung
- Lam Chun
- (as Kai-Chung Cheung)
Kwok-Lun Lee
- CHT Chief Engineer Tunnei
- (as Joseph Kwok Lun Lee)
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The only words I remember is " thanks God's I always chose the right one, thanks God's I can protect the civilians " Also Andy Lau still like to promute a good guy in his series movie . The pacing of the movie was amazing. The direction first use tunnnel to make the movie was quite New ideas and it save to the explosion:)
The film features some incredible action sequences and also a few very tense moments. A great premise convincingly executed thanks to believable acting and an experienced director. The humor was kept to a minimum, making the film an effective nail-biter.
Andy Lau is one of my favorite actor from Hong Kong cinema in every movie no matter he staring in lead role or supporting role he always give 100% and with this movie Shock Wave he proving one again he still on top of the game.Directed by Herman Yau also one of my favorite director Shock Wave is a action crime movie about a brave bomb disposal officer try to stop a group of terrorist that take over a underground tunnel.All the performance in this movie is good mostly about Andy Lau character and the movie direction.I have so much fun thought out this movie,it never have a dull moment,the tension always high and the action scene is very clear and awesome.Some minus point is the romance is very rush and the main villain is pretty disappointing.
Typical Hong Kong movie that didn't put much focus on story, it's flat throughout even though it has put in place conflicting characters and elements of brotherhood and father-and-son among the characters.
Beastly action movie. so many tense moments. likable lead character. i was into it throughout. so much intensity. good action and suspense. and had some powerful scenes. downsides are some unnecessary scenes and subplots, like the whole stock market thing. and also some of the english dialogue was really basic and doesn't really work from an american-english perspective. but that's something you have to accept with foreign films (1 viewing)
Did you know
- TriviaHowever, the project was seemingly postponed indefinitely until March 2016, where the film was re-announced at the 2016 Hong Kong Filmart. While Yau remained as the film's director, Andy Lau was announced to produce and star in the new film, with no mention of previous reported cast members. With a new budget of US$23 million.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Shock Wave 2 (2020)
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Box office
- Budget
- $23,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $58,824,459
- Runtime
- 1h 59m(119 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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