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<div>Film-based distributor The Weinstein Company picked up multi-territory rights to release Invisible Target in all English-speaking territories. Dragon Dynasty released a "two disc ultimate edition" DVD in the United States on 10 June 2008, which contains much of the same special features found on the Hong Kong releases.[1] A Blu-ray Disc edition of the film by the same company was later released in August 2010.[citation needed]</div><div></div><div></div><div>The film opened to generally mixed reviews. Writing in Muse magazine, Perry Lam found that 'there is eloquence to the way Benny Chan tells his story,' but ultimately criticizes the film for 'fail[ing] to deliver'.[2]</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>download film invisible target</div><div></div><div>Download File: https://t.co/tZFwFvbhHu </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Invisible Target is a 2007 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Benny Chan. The film tells the story of three policemen: Chan Chun, Wai King-ho, and Carson Fong Yik-wei. Together, they try to bring down criminal Tien Yeng-seng and his gang, the Ronin Gang.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Early in the film Nicholas Tse turns into his own ghost to bemoan his fiancee who was killed in the first of many perfectly executed action setpieces. With that out of the way, the rest is just male bodies at the edge, physically as well as emotionally. Violence as a bond, connecting friends, but also enemies. I killed your brother so that you'll always think of me. In the end we'll all be smeared with tears and blood and it will rain splintered glass, ashes, and money.</div><div></div><div></div><div>I think I already made my point about Benny Chan's films being always overlong and uneven. This one takes it a step further with a needlessly convoluted plot but thank goodness the action in his movies is never a let down which always makes up for all the before mentioned flaws that are persistant in his movies. </div><div></div><div>On that note Invisible Target delivers a no holds barred action flick with a star studded cast and outrageous stunts. there's also a metric fuckton of shattered glass and broken tables. the action set pieces ticked every box in the action movie guidebook. despite the unimpressive shootouts everything else is spectacular especially the brawls and the footchases (the one that takes place on rooftops is especially good) so if you are into that kind of brainless stuff then you're gonna be enjoying the hell out of this movie.</div><div></div><div></div><div>As I sat open-mouthed through the opening half an hour of Invisible Target I was thinking to myself that I was already not looking forward to the slow bit in the middle that so many Hong Kong action films suffer from before returning to form for the ending.</div><div></div><div></div><div>For a while this seems to be the perfect modern Hong Kong action film, with just the right amount of wire-usage to make things more ridiculously exciting without losing the hard-hitting feel.</div><div></div><div>Then it goes on for far too long and the bits between the action that started off generic but enjoyable enough become more and more tedious.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Chun obviously wants revenge, but the perps have eluded him. Luckily, the bad guys resurface, running into inspector Fong Yik-Wei (Shawn Yue), who pulls them over on a routine car check and proceeds to get served by the acrobatic kung-fu and unflinching cruelty of Tien Yeng-Seng (Wu Jing). Fong is pretty badass himself, and gets an introduction that most actors would kill for. Early on in the film, Fong drives up to a restaurant in his Ferrarri and proceeds to dismantle the entire place with his fists and feet, taking out half-a-dozen bad guys and breaking more glass than your average Jackie Chan film. The problem is Wei still isn't a match for Tien, and finds himself burning with anger after the humiliation. Shawn Yue is suitably coiled as Fong, and makes up for his character's lack of a compelling backstory with strong screen presence and cool charisma. In contrast to many young Hong Kong actors, Yu has both range and charisma, and can seemingly handle action, comedic, or dramatic roles with ease. However, in Invisible Target, there's only one goal: action. Yu does fine there. Notch another one for Invisible Target.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Since both Chun and Fong want Tien and his gang, they have to track him down, and the trail leads quickly to Wai King-Ho (Jaycee Chan, AKA Son of Jackie). Ho is a uniformed patrolman whose sense of righteousness and justice is so well developed that he might as well be a walking commercial for the police force. Ho is smarting because his fellow cop brother (who looks like Aaron Kwok in the photos) has disappeared, and is considered by some cops to have turned to the dark side. Supposedly, Ho's brother is connected to Tien Yeng-Seng and his gang of baddies, so after becoming pals over an entertaining restaurant rumble and a subsequent homoerotic ointment application, the trio of Chun, Fong, and Ho hop in a car and begin to pursue their leads. Soon, the mystery surrounding all the dangling plot threads begins unraveling with predictable efficiency. Before the film ends, each main cop will have their personal demons exorcised (though Fong's personal demon is just an insult to his manliness), plus the bad guys will be named, the reasons behind the lawlessness explained, and all the random, innocuous conversations conducted by seemingly minor supporting characters will suddenly be revealed to have great plot importance. It's almost like someone read a screenwriting manual.</div><div></div><div></div><div>However, the reasons don't resonate. Benny Chan and company take great pains to explain everyone's issues, but the issues only tie to the plot in a perfunctory fashion. Too often we get soul-searching and key confrontations at unbelievable times, e.g. in the middle of a firefight, and some of it is so cheesy that it can be painful (at one point, one of the cops asks one of the bad guys, "Why can't you change?"). Ultimately, there isn't a reason that these characters need to be so damn pained. Sure, it gives everyone a personal stake, but it's hard to say that it makes the film that much more compelling. The actual plot, which involves stolen money and hurt feelings, is rather uninteresting and far from memorable. It's unnecessarily convoluted in that it attempts to tie every character in the film together, and by the time Invisible Target reaches the end of its protracted two hour-plus running time, it's questionable if the storyline will even matter to anyone in the audience.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Still, Gen-X Cops - which was also directed by Benny Chan and may be the blueprint for commercial HK police actioners like Invisible Target - didn't have much of a story either, but its high-concept premise made its story deficits much more digestible. Invisible Target is high concept in execution, but sometimes serious in intent. The filmmakers put lots of weight on the film's emotions and themes, but some are quite cheesy, and few really make the film better. Ultimately, it feels like the story in Invisible Target is connected entirely by contrivance. Characters conveniently bump into one another, plus they manage to show up in exactly the right place at exactly the right time, and it happens so often that everything starts to feel a bit unbelievable. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in the blowout climax, which takes place at a massive police station infiltrated by Wu Jing and crew. Despite hundreds of cops milling about, the characters manage to find nice deserted areas for mano-a-mano knockdowns or soul-searching conversations, most of which are routine cop movie stuff. Benny Chan has always been one of Hong Kong's best commercial film directors, but his handling of story and character has seen little improvement over the years. Basically, it always feels like filler.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Some of the supporting performances help, too. Mark Cheng and Lam Ka-Wah have their moments as two senior police officers, and it's nice to see Sam Lee and Lam Suet in nearly anything. Unfortunately, Benny Chan still cannot find a way to use his female characters; the highest-billed one here is newcomer Elanne Kong, who plays Shawn Yue's underdeveloped Girl Friday. However, one of Chan's best moves was convincing Wu Jing to return to the dark side for Invisible Target, and the actor is charismatic in his first post-SPL villain role. As expected, he also handles his action sequences impressively, and the filmmakers have the good sense not to pretend that Nicholas Tse could take Wu Jing in a fight. He'd need some help, and the film's solution to that problem is surprisingly affecting. But that occurs at the end of the film, and before that there are street chases, car chases, rooftop chases, gunplay, two brawls in restaurants, and more painful-looking impact than has been seen in a Hong Kong film in quite a while. Benny Chan and action director Lee Chung-Chi know action, and they deliver enough of it here, and in an exciting enough manner to make Invisible Target worthwhile for those needing their action fix. Invisible Target isn't a very good film, but is it fun? I think so. (Kozo 2007)</div><div></div><div></div><div>Action films are forged out of some very tenuous threads, each one required to carry its own weight while intricately balancing the needs of the other ingredients. They can certainly be crafted after a formula, years of practice guaranteeing that once all the elements are in place, something viable will result. Those who try to stretch or even break the mold are destined to either fail, or fracture and reconstruct the cinematic blueprint, revising the standard for the next generation of artists to come. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being really, really good at what the basics already provide, and this would describe the Hong Kong thriller Invisible Target rather well;. Now out on DVD from Dragon Dynasty, Genius Products and the Weinstein Company, this film is not out to redefine the genre. Instead, it wants to perfect it, and does so magnificently.</div><div></div><div></div><div>After his lighthearted action-comedy Rob-B-Hood, Hong Kong director and co-writer Benny Chan returns to the shadowy streets of honor and revenge for his latest cops versus robbers spectacle. Chan, who has been delivering kinetic martial arts action and broody crime dramas since the mid-90s with films like Gen-X Cops and Man Wanted, delivers the goods once again with one spectacular explosion after another and frantic fight sequences that are fired in rapid succession during the films two hour running time. In between, Chan explores the tried-and-true themes of brotherhood and loyalty using both police and criminal elements. These overly dramatic monologues admittedly get a little long in the tooth, but for the most part are kept under control.</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>
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