In the Line of Duty 4 | Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen | 5 Stars for a Martial Arts Movie

In the Line of Duty 4 | Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen | Action: fantastic quantity, nice quality!

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In the Line of Duty 4

	In the Line of Duty 4 Cynthia Khan, Donnie Yen 20th Century Fox, 2003 average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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5 Stars for a Martial Arts Movie

ITLOD4 is quite possibly one of the best choreographed films ever. A true testament to the Yuen Clan's skill.

Of course the movie itself is super average, but you really stop caring when the fights are wall to wall. This is definitely one for real die-hard martial arts movie fans.

Action: fantastic quantity, nice quality!

First of all, for all ITLOD series fans, this one is not an intriguing cop movie like, it's an Action film of the highest order. The film is perhaps a definitive Donnie Yen show (beside Iron Monkey/ Tiger Cage 2, perhaps) and it helps that his film associates (his mother's students) John Salvitti ja Michael Woods (a former Navy SEAL, btw) also do a lot of their best here. Definitely this ranks as the best actioner of ITLOD series and a contender for number one modern day fight film ever. By it's fighting content that is.

Being a great Yuen clan fan, this has always been one of my favorite films from them. Full of dangerous stunts and randomly abrupting moments of fiery action, this movie delivers. Plot either sucks, or serves as a vehicle for excusing more fight scenes to happen. Who cares anyway?

I often have compared this to other YWP classic of the period Tiger Cage 2 which was done a year or so later. While it has less action and a humorous tone, ITLOD 4 is dead serious and totally full of fights. Literally, what you get is tons of fights (modern kickboxing with some trademark YWP/Donnie touches thrown in) that jump to the face every five minutes. Some of the fights unfortunately look a bit similar or sometimes even non-interesting, but most often the drive is again maxed with some interesting piece of choreography and great energy from actors involved. Much of this is to thanked by Donnie's own fighting team and Cynthia Khan's secondary yet active participation in action scenes. Though she is not an action star per se, no-one beside Yuen clan can make her look this good.

Stuntman aficionado Cho Wing does tons of double/stunt work in this (the ponytail/eyeglasses bloke in the end), especially to female lead Cynthia Khan. Besides Donnie, I considered him the star of the film, being a great fan of top stuntwork.

In the end of the day, I rate overall this, far cheaper and narratively more repetitive and boring flick, BY it's action, better than Jackie Chan's nominal Police Story (or any Police Story movie). Jackie's film is more memorable and has some killer cinematography, but I prefer intricate kickboxing, cool minor stuntwork and endless row of good/brilliant fight sequences that show some of the best modern day martial arts stuff my both Donnie Yen and master Yuen Woo Ping. A definite classic of cop-kungfu -genre. One not to be missed, especially if one loves raw modern fighting action.

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Terrible story, good fight scenes

If you're half-way bright then you can follow the story, but it's really tiring. The story is trash anyway so it's useless to even spend any time caring who is who and why they want to kill eachother, so just watch the fights. Now the fights are decent, but the best part is the very end with Donnie Yen and the swoll cat he is fighting on the roof... one of the coolest fight scenes I have ever seen. This is a good add to your collection if you are a Donnie Yen fan, or have exhausted pretty much all the other good martial arts movies you can find. You probably won't watch it much after the first time tho - except the end of course.

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