I just finished watching both Flying Dagger (1993) and A Moment of Romance (1990).
Flying Dagger is one of those fantastic wire-fu movies where seriousness is thrown aside for the sake of entertainment. The plot is really light in this movie, but it revolves areound two sets of bounty hunters trying to bring a criminal to justice. Sword-fighting and martial arts antics ensue.
A Moment of Romance was released in 1990.It feels strange to see Andy Lau 14 years younger, and a lot of the cinematography, background music, action stunts and so forth reflect the tail end of the eighties. For instance, in the first ten minutes, there is a very A-Team/Dukes of Hazard stunt where a car flies through the air after hitting another car). There's also a few inconsistencies (like objects disappearing and reappering later) There's also other 80s things in here: big hair, big sunglasses and miami vice style clothing to name a few. This movie is apparently one of those classics of HK cinema, with a notoriety similar to that of the western classic Casablanca. The ending of this movie is parodied a bit in the movie "Needing You" (which also stars Andy Lau, albeit much older).
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