dbborroughs A Hong Kong action film about a wanted fugitive who is to be extradited who is released and chased by the police. I've been watching a good number of Chinese martial arts and police action films lately and to be honest most of them have blended together. Most of the films simply copy from each other in a weird daisy chain of generic action. This is a film that is different enough that I know I will actually remember it a week or three down the road. This has some wild action and several good scenes you're not likely to see else where including what has to be a unique way to remove a bullet- have the injured person be distracted by having sex. Its a trip. Worth a look if you run across it.

gridoon2018 There is nothing in "Cheetah on Fire" that you haven't seen many times before (except for a bullet-removal during sex, perhaps!); the "attack on the villain's jungle camp" part that takes up the last 30 minutes or so has been done so many times it could evolve into a genre of its own. Script and production-wise, "Cheetah on Fire" is about on a par with a low-budget straight-to-video American action film starring, say, Dolph Lundgren; with that said, the execution does have a certain made-in-Hong Kong energy. I particularly liked the 3 women in the film: Cheung Man, Fujimi Nadeki, and Carrie Ng. They are all strong, fearless, and equal to the men in both giving and taking hits. Cheung Man, in particular, makes a great action heroine and it is unfortunate that she is written out of the second part of the movie. I also liked (once again) Michael Woods, who looks and acts like a comic-book creation (you could call him "The Black Hulk"). On the other hand, Donnie Yen fans will probably be disappointed, since he has very few fight scenes, the last of which (against Gordon Liu) is so often intercut with action happening elsewhere that there is no flow to it. (**1/2)

Masta_Ruthless This is one of those movies that you may have caught playing at about 2 in the morning. Next you realize that this is a good film, gunplay aside the action was pretty good if not great. Yen again shows off his talents in this film.He plays a cop from the US brought in to help with a serious case, his cockiness is backed up by his gunplay and fighting skills. To see him and Gordon Liu go at it in a fight was amazing. Although I didn't like the fate Yen took at the end of the film, it was still decent.A lot of people reviewing this movie are screaming about realism, but yet we praise the Matrix Reloaded and Revolution, (yeah I can really see the realism in those two films)but anyway if you want a good gunplay, azzwhupping, explosion having action movie, then try out this film.What could go wrong, you'll either love it or hate it right?

Brian Camp CHEETAH ON FIRE (1992) is a by-the-numbers thriller about government agents tracking down an errant arms dealer, culminating in a raid on the arms dealer's outpost in the southeast Asian jungle. The action is mostly gunplay but is enlivened by some solid kung fu action performed by hero Donnie Yen and a quartet of memorable villains led by Gordon Liu and including Ken Lo and western martial artists Michael Woods and John Salvitti. The highlight is a fight between Donnie and Gordon (of MASTER KILLER fame and tons of old-school kung fu films), representing two generations of kung fu stars. Also on hand are Carrie Ng and Cheung Man, who are very good at looking pretty, but not so good at fighting. (Carrie's red lipstick lights up the jungle in every scene she's in.) Donnie Yen plays an American, which prompts the others on his team to call him `Foreigner,' one of the few times his actual nationality is acknowledged in a Hong Kong film.