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578 MAGNUM Review: Luong Dinh Dung’s Reverse-Engineered ‘Taken’ Genre Filler Is A Dud

578 Magnum is now available in on digital and VOD from Film Movement. As I wrote this review, I took the liberty of trying to ascertain just what the title of writer and director Luong Dinh Dung’s new movie, 578 Magnum, meant. Draw your own conclusions as you may – after a few Google searches here and there, I can see how it might have made sense to the director, although it still comes off as more of a hint of how lazy the writing was that went into this action thriller. Making his Western debut from a Vietnamese production in a lead role is actor Alexandre Nguyen who plays Hung, joined on screen by actress Thanh Thao in the role of his six-year old daughter, An. Hung shares a close relationship with his daughter while working as a container truck driver, and that relationship is sooner tested than preferred […]

578 MAGNUM: Alexandre Nguyen Is A One-Man Army In A New Clip [EXCLUSIVE]

Lee B. Golden III

An earlier version of this article was corrected and updated with release platform details. Director Luong Dinh Dung’s new action adventure, 578 Magnum is on the way to digital and VOD platforms this Friday from Film Movement. Several clips are making the rounds this week from a few news sites, and Film Combat Syndicate was granted the opportunity to share and exclusive clip of our own which you can view at the bottom of the page. The clip in question reveals a key moment in the film when Hung (Alexandre Nguyen) confronts a notorious gang while in search of his daughter, per the film’s synopsis. As the clip shows, the free-for-all explodes in a container yard with Hung standing against all odds until he’s cornered into fighting one of the film’s heaviest-hitting characters, played by martial artist Tuan Hac. 578 Magnum also stars Thanh Thao, Huoang Phuc and H’hen Hie, […]

578: MAGNUM Signals May Release This Week In Vietnam

Lee B. Golden III

Apparently a lot’s happened over in Vietnam in the last few months – “A lot” meaning the previous March release for Father and Son director Luong Dinh Dung’s new action thriller, 578: Magnum, is actually just around the corner now with a release slated for May 20 in the region instead of March, it seems. Whatever happened for the delay is still a mystery for me but the news is the news and the trailer is…well, the trailer – the latest which arose back in April and you can take a look at that above along with some snazzy new poster art at the bottom of the page. It’s great stuff and with the Cannes Market in full gear, my hopes are high that we’ll hear something sooner if not later on some acquisitions. A container truck driver, Hùng, lives an idyllic life with his little daughter, An. The father […]

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578 MAGNUM Trailer Teases A Fistful Of Thrills With A Vengeance!

Lee B. Golden III

Screen Anarchy‘s Andrew Mack has the goods on award-winning Father And Son director Luong Dinh Dung’s third film to date, 578 Magnum. A new trailer is now out and available with English subs following a previous trailer launch back in January ahead of its forthcoming Vietnamese release this month. Directed from a script also by Dung with cinematography by Morgan Schmidt (Furie), and featuring action sequences by Oh Sea-young (War, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, The Suspect, The Yellow Sea), 578 Magnum stars French actor Alexandre Nguyen in the lead role of Hùng, a container truck driver whose close bond with his young daughter, An, suffers its biggest blow yet. Upon learning of An’s residual depression from having been kidnapped and sexually assault, Hùng thrusts himself into the criminal underbelly to seek justice against An’s psychopathic attacker, and the massive number of underworld forces standing in his way. The film reportedly […]