Silver Hawk

2004 "The law has limits. She Doesn't."
5.1| 1h39m| PG-13| en
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Lulu Wong, a rock star and philanthropist, fights injustice as her superhero alter-ego Silver Hawk. When the criminal baddie Wolfe sets a plan in motion to dominate the world through cell phone signals, Silver Hawk joins forces with police detective Richman to save the world.

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China Film Co-Production Corporation

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Acensbart Excellent but underrated film
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Phil Hubbs So you thought 'The Avengers' was a good comic book flick huh? well move over Iron Man Captain America and Hulk...move over for Silver Hawk!!!Not too dissimilar from various other Far Eastern fantasy martial arts flicks, this film merely came to my attention due to the casting of Michael Jai White, Luke Goss and the gorgeous Michelle Yeoh. Its your basic comic book character action film but the hero is a heroine (Yeoh) and she isn't exactly a superhero but more like Iron Man, a person with money who fights crime in a nifty suit.Well I say nifty suit, this suit simply looks like silver spandex with some silver painted goggles on her head and a long silver flapping coat. The thing that is so silly with this is everyone is virtually dressed in silver, all the bad guys and henchmen are in silver armour and everyone uses silver weapons or gadgets.Surprisingly Jai White is a silent bad guy henchmen in this (looking like a certain character out of Mortal Kombat and with some Biggles head wear for some reason) and unsurprisingly Goss is the main villain. He is dressed in a Matrix style full length silver trench coat (indeed) with prosthetic silver metal forearms and looking like Richard O' Brien's brother. The action is tame but reasonably well choreographed, nothing amazing but it does the job with no strong violence or blood.All of the film is pure comic book silliness which does look like something made for TV but a lot of Asian movies can look like this. You could almost think of this as a Chinese 'Batman and Robin' complete with fighting bad guys on bungee ropes, rollerblading ice hockey bad guys and Silver Hawk has her own Batbike type vehicle, its just not as camp. Well...that is until you see Goss in his skintight shiny silver vinyl costume towards the end.5/10
gridoon In the 90s, you could often see American martial arts films being influenced by Hong Kong action cinema. But these days, it seems that this trend has been reversed, and now we have Hong Kong movies trying too hard to be like Hollywood. From the fight scenes, which suffer from too much fast cutting, too much CGI, too much imitation-Matrix style, to the outrunning-the-explosion finale, "Silver Hawk" is one such movie. However, there are still a few glimpses of the old-times HK brilliance to be found, and the film certainly scores in the eye-candy department: Michelle Yeoh looks dazzling (if a little too made-up at times), Bing Bing Li (appearing each time with a different hair color, but always in a mini-skirt - thank God!) is easily one of the hottest bad chicks of the current decade, and there is also a female police officer (with a very limited role) who is simply gorgeous. In fact, I would go so far as to say that EVERY girl in this movie is pure beauty. But the film as a whole is not as entertaining or action-packed as "Black Mask 2", in which the computer effects are also more justified by the mutated heroes' superpowers. Watch that one first. (**)
sarastro7 Asia doesn't have many bona-fide superheroes in their fantastic fiction; they tend to have kung fu masters and such, but apart from Black Mask (which was very mediocre) I don't think I've seen any other real Asian superhero movies except for this one; Silver Hawk. It is a true combo of kung fu and super-heroics, as the main character, Lulu Wong (Michelle Yeoh), has excelled in the martial arts since childhood and have found a way to use her martial arts for the good of all society as the silver-costumed hero Silver Hawk.The movie takes place in the future, where they have holographic mahjong and some brand-new mind-reading devices. Stylistically, everything is entirely kept in ice-blue glass and metal, which all looks sleek and cool, but also rather cold and inhuman.A human dimension is added, however, in the childhood flashbacks, where a lot of connections are drawn to Silver Hawk's adult life. For instance, the reason she wears a mask is because she did so as a kid, too, to disguise her identity when she was kung fu brawling in defiance of her teachers' orders. This cross-time dimension with her childhood works very well indeed, also because she runs into her childhood friend again as an adult, his having become a police chief. Initially he wants to catch Silver Hawk, but as soon as he finds out who she is, he starts working with her.The bad guy (supervillain, really), Fire Wolf, is quite dull, and his plan not very well described. There are a couple of plot holes in the story, too, and while the action is pretty good, the fighting isn't spectacular. But still a relatively good and watchable movie. I rate it a 6 out of 10.I'm very interested in movies that combine kung fu and science fiction. My list so far includes Silver Hawk, Avenging Fist, Jet Li's The One, and, of course, the Matrix Trilogy, and Equilibrium. And also, Star Wars, sort of, since the Jedi abilities are a form of martial arts... I hope to discover more movies with kung fu and sci-fi combined.
Joel K This is one of those near-matrix clones with its special effects and mighty leaps. Made in Hong Kong, and it can be noticed. The concept of movie making differs from the Hollywood ones, but not too much. I am sick and tired of those unrealistic leaps and movements, which were designed to Matrix. Those effects shouldn't be part of these ordinary action movies. I don't recommend this to anyone. ** out of *****