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Silver Hawk (2004)

Silver Hawk poster
Original title
飞鹰
Directed by
Jingle Ma
Genre
action film, martial arts film, superhero film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 61 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A masked heroine on a motorcycle uses martial arts to fight criminals and rescue kidnapped pandas. The film follows her efforts to stop a villainous plot in Hong Kong.

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What happens

Silver Hawk (Chinese: 飞鹰) is a 2004 superhero film directed by Jingle Ma and starring Michelle Yeoh, Richie Jen, Luke Goss, Brandon Chang and Michael White. Yeoh plays the title character, a masked comic book style heroine who rides a motorcycle, saves kidnapped pandas and uses her martial arts moves on the bad guys. The masked heroine theme dates back to Huang Ying, a 1948 Shanghai book by Xiao Ping. A Hong Kong-Chinese co-production, the film was originally called The Masked Crusader in English but the title was changed because the war in Iraq has charged "crusader" with negative meaning. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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