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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305693352 Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 6305693358 Label: Tai Seng Video Marketing Languages: Manufacturer: Tai Seng Video Marketing Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Tai Seng Video Marketing Release Date: October 24, 2000 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Tai Seng Video Marketing Theatrical Release Date: 1996 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Tough but vulnerable Michael Wong is the leader of the Flying Tigers, a commando-style police strike force that takes on a gang of international drug runners with the help of spunky young customs investigator Gigi Leung. One of the better Hong Kong action films made since the 1997 hand-over, this no-nonsense cop drama is packed with big-scale gun battles and plenty of explosions when not enmeshed in departmental infighting and individual soul searching. American-born Wong runs his unit like a self-sustaining army and has a hot-headed tendency to leap without authorization. Leung is too deferential and insecure to cut much of an authority figure, but she rises to the occasion in the bullet-splayed finale as the commandos and customs agents band together in a show of solidarity. It's a far cry from the slow-motion violence ballets of John Woo, but Gordon Chan's sober police drama fits right in with the tradition of Kirk Wong's smart, steely policiers like Crime Story and Organized Crime and Triad Bureau. Wong speaks mostly English in the Chinese language version and dubs himself in the English language edition. --Sean Axmaker Average Rating:
 Rating: - Very accurate weapons handling & tactics for a movieFor a wild action film, First Option features unusually accurate tactics and weapons-handling. This is likely due to the real-life SDU members consulting on the picture. Also, unlike John Woo and his other famous Hong Kong contemporaries, director Gordon Chan has always leaned towards authenticity in his action scenes. You can see the pinnacle of this approach in "2000 AD", a more recent Chan film that features stunning shootouts. But First Option is certainly an action-packed film as well. ... Read More Rating: - Over Analyzed...Gear is expensive and hard to comeby. It doesn't matter who your are in the end you gotta make do with what you got. Jeans are high quality. Your beloved SEALS wore them in Vietnam. Swat teams and special units need to be big. That is not in the least bit unlikely. SEALs are probably the best at DA (direct action). They are young, tough and pumped full of macho Hooyah ism. However, against a trained numerically superior force they would be forced to evade or be over run. And they really ... Read More Rating:  - I disagree with the rest of the reviewersI rented this movie basically because of the flashy box cover with the elite units on the cover with their masks and HK's. This movie is not what i expected. I thought this movie to be fake and unreal. I also thought that the dubbing on this film was extreamly horrible. The story is about ex Navy Seals who turn drug running and the Flying Tigers must stop them. The movie had plenty of shoot outs with plenty of neat firearms to show but doesn't make up for the rest. The tigers got a gang of guys ... Read More Rating: - Not as good as The Final Option, but still very strong.First Option is a much larger-scaled prequel (actually, even the term "prequel" is used loosely here, the only real connections between the films being the Michael Wong character, here called "Don", and sidekick "Joe".) that ups the ante on the action sequences but isn't as nuanced an exploration of life in Hong Kong's elite police SDU. Nevertheless, First Option contains more than enough character depth, tension, and expert pacing to rank among the best films ever made in Hong Kong. This ... Read More Rating:  - Gordan Chan + Michael Wong = A Real SDU MoiveHere is the story of the moive. The custem service of HK investigating a drug dealer which has very strong weapon. They formed a special unit with HK police SDU to arrest through people. Michael Wong success his good performance in the Final Option. The gun scence is as good as last time. This time, the director introduce the forrest battle in the moive which is different from the city battle last time. Different from last time, the focus is on the career of being a SDU rather than focus on the love and ... Read More |
