Guy
THE WHITE STORM brings the old HK 'heroic bloodshed' genre back to life with several loud bangs and a mountain of corpses. As ever its about a bunch of bros who fall out with each other only to come back together at the end so that they can kill half of Asia. This time it's three cops: the undercover one wants out to be with his family, the boss one has to extend the mission so they can capture a big- time Thai drug lord, and the little brother one just wants to keep the peace. It all goes horribly wrong in Thailand in a spectacular massacre involving Huey gunships, crocodiles and a terrible haircut. Then the action moves back to HK as the heroes go rogue and end up trapped in a giant club where they prepare to go down fighting...together (and yes, every single thing in the club gets blown up in glorious fashion). The drama is actually pretty good and when the heroes end up whistling their little theme song at the end it'd be a brave guy who wouldn't admit that he'd like to be in that room, ready to take on overwhelming odds with some true friends at his back. The action is blistering, clever and very, very fun with shoot-outs, car chases, boat attacks and police raids. Despite being over two hours long time flies.
chuinhun
With strong cast such as Ching Wan Lau and Nick Cheung both award winning actors, this movie deliver all the necessities that a good movie should have. The intensity of acting, the spark between the actors, the struggling of the characters, the twist of story-line, the hot blooded action scene. This movie brings back the classic, late 80s early 90s, Hong Kong action movie sensation. Which for me is the most glorious era for Hong Kong movies.Totally worth watching!
gerrythree
"The White Storm" is a totally unreal movie about three Hong Kong narcotics cops trying to bring down a big time drug dealer. Director and co-writer Benny Chan should stick to directing. Chan's previous movie, 2011's "Shaolin," was a very well made movie that held your interest throughout. "The White Storm" is mainly a series of gunfights, very well choreographed but totally unreal. More a video game shoot-em up than a movie. In the middle of the movie, the HK cops are in Thailand to trap the drug lord. During an ensuing gun battle, the bad guys bring in a helicopter fitted with a mini-gun that blasts away at everything. For me, that was the high point of the movie, just mindless destruction with no shallow dialog from the three buddy cops. Benny Chan does a much better job as director when he works with Jackie Chan. For his next movie, Benny Chan should team up again with Jack Chan and leave the writing to others.
dumsumdumfai
At the point when Lau yield at his superior (with a strong baritone voice sourcing from the lower belly regions) 'It's a life you're dealing with !!!' it was pretty exhilarating. I thought this might be different.Then the 3 main actors got together for a lunch and started singing.. I can see the sentimental setup already. Further more with another signing episode when deciding to go to Thailand or not. By the way, Nick Cheung's goofy hair style and demeanour sort of too childish and maybe gave away the 2nd half? Yet, at the climax of the Thailand scenes, the 'other' philosophical writer came back!!!! The "choose 1 of 2"... difficult choice Lau has to make breath life back into the narrative again. I would have like a bit more time there to show the difficulty (maybe like Good/Bad/Ugly with the 3 minute song extreme close up ending).Yet over yet, when the 8 face Buddha comes to HK and messiness resumes. Then until the rooftop scene where "choose 1 of 2" philosophical question came full circle.. I thought this could be revenge well played but really how would they follow it up? then came a Better Tomorrow ending that is maybe 1/2 the effort of all the footage before it. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
