BORN TO FLY Review: Trial-And-Error Compounds Liu Xiaoshi’s Noteworthy Aviation Drama
Born To Fly is now available on Blu-Ray and Digitial in the UK from Trinity CineAsia.
Born To Fly is now available on Blu-Ray and Digitial in the UK from Trinity CineAsia.
Hard-hitting World War II espionage thriller, Hidden Blade, is releasing on Digital beginning July 18 from Well Go USA. The film comes from award-winning filmmaker Cheng Er (Lethal Hostage, The Wasted Times), and stars Tony Leung (Infernal Affairs franchise, Hero, The Grandmaster), Wang Yibo (Born to Fly), Dong Chengpeng (City of Rock, I am Not Madame Bovary, The Thousand Faces of Dunjia), Zhou Xun (2022’s Hero, Painted Skin, Perhaps Love), Eric Wang (Saturday Fiction, Dying to Survive), and Lei Huang (Farewell My Concubine, Phantom of the Theatre).
Patrick Brzeski’s December reporting over at THR should provide some insight regarding director Liu Xiaoshi’s latest air force thriller, Born To Fly. At any rate, it’s Well Go USA who will be in the cockpit for China’s answer to Top Gun: Maverick as it stars Wang Yibo who co-leads the banner’s recently-released brooding political war thriller, Hidden Blade, starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.
Well Go USA’s press pack for director Cheng Er’s latest film, Hidden Blade, partly states that he’s best known for keeping his audiences guessing. That he does, this time with a story set in the early 1940s with events chronicled before, and afterward, amid the Communist party’s campaign as it’s set against the backdrop of the invasion of imperial Japanese forces. The film weaves in its elements and characters from all angles, flashing forward in its efforts to set things in motion for the audience to begin following our main characters and learn more about them.
The past year has been a little bit interesting with a few teasers making the rounds for director Cheng Er’s new World War II spy thriller, Anonymous. Not much happens in either of those teasers, save for offering little pieces here and there of characterization to go by, along with the casting of celebrated actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai to boost the film’s wider marketability.
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