High Risk (traditional Chinese: 鼠胆龍威; Cantonese Yale: Shu dan long wei), also known in the United States as Meltdown is a 1995 Hong Kong martial arts action film written and directed by Wong Jing and starring Jet Li, Jacky Cheung, Chingmy Yau, Charlie Yeung, and Valerie Chow. Corey Yuen serves as the film's fight choreographer.
The film is a parody of some of Hollywood's most influential action films, such as Die Hard and Speed. It also gained co...
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Meltdown
Film
Directed by
Wong Jing
Wong Jing (Chinese: 王晶; pinyin: Wáng Jīng) is a Hong Kong film director, producer, actor, presenter, and screenwriter. A prolific filmmaker possessed of strong instincts for crowd-pleasing and publicity, he is often cited as the most consistently successful filmmaker, in commercial terms, in the...
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