Underplayed Gems

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
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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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