She’s never needed it to prove that she’s an actress like the top of a pine tree, but it’s pretty cool living in a world where Michelle Yeoh has an Oscar for best actress. The sensational ‘All at once everywhere’ allowed her to show off her full range, from her ability to be funny, charismatic and a great dramatic actressas well as given to directors with a vision for science fiction, to pure action.
Yeoh’s talent for fighting and physical display comes from afar. Of course, long before we saw her in Western movies, and even before that worldwide success that was ‘Tiger and dragon‘. In Hong Kong he could transfer his capacity for movement that he learned with the ballet to the impossible tollinas, removing large-caliber cucumbers. One of the first is also one of the best of his career: ‘Ultra Force: Unlimited Action‘.
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One of her first roles, when she was still known as Michelle Khan, and part of a peculiar saga known as In the Line of Duty starring policewomen, of which she also starred in ‘ultra force 2‘ (released earlier and actually titled ‘huang jia shi jie‘, either ‘Yes, madam!‘). One of those whirlwinds of smacks and explosive sequences of action that can be seen in streaming through Filmin.
Here we find her playing a young Hong Kong inspector who is considered a hero along with a former Japanese policeman and a security agent for jointly stopping a plane hijacking. In the region they are applauded and celebrated, but such high consideration has also put a target on the back. Brutal war veterans will want to avenge their comrades, starting with family and close friends. Thus, a brutal confrontation between law enforcement officers and criminals is launched.
Michelle is the protagonist and the one with the greatest moments of brilliance, such as the spectacular opening sequence where she chases and defeats a series of street gangsters with an imperial fighting skill. However, this is an ensemble film with Michael Wong or Hiroyuki Sanada, who form this heroic trident in search of revenge.
‘Ultra Force: Unlimited Action’: An Imperial Yeoh
Yeoh’s combat ability is unquestionable, making a perfect balance of agility and forcefulness of hitting. His elasticity and speed allow his action sequence coordinator to fly free with the choreography of the fights. Then this David Chungdebutant director although veteran for being the cinematographer of Hong Kong cinema titans like Tsui Hark or Ann Hui, who shoots the scenes wonderfully, not missing any detail of the movements of his star.
A great sum of talents, but without a doubt Yeoh is the one that takes away the hiccups of amazement with her performance on screen. Her charisma is completely natural and instantaneous, completely selling out a powerful character in a movie that delivers pacing and pacing for 96 minutes. Prime Hong Kong Action, uninhibited to the extreme and definitely entertaining. The kind of movie the Daniels would have in mind when they wanted to build their film’s action around the actress.
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