Donnie Yen has always been my favorite martial actor, ever since his early appearance in Drunken Tai Chi and Tiger Cage 2.
As an action director, I like him better than Yuen Woo Ping, for he always tries to re-invent himself and sticks to as much realism as he can, while Yuen seems to re-cycle the same moves nowadays.
As a martial actor, I like him better than Jet Li because of his physical presence, his intensity hand his rough power.
The final showdown in Flash point is the culminating point of everything Donnie Yen's skills and inventiveness have been building up from Legend of the wolf to the great S.P.L.
Well, I am no critic so I'll just quote Mark Pollard:
"In KILL ZONE, Yen dabbled with Mixed Martial Arts fighting for the first time against Sammo. Think of that as the teaser and his fight against Chou as the main event. MMA choreography in Hong Kong is rare but there have been numerous attempts by Hollywood to incorporate it. Thanks to its real-world popularity in the West, it’s become the new measure of gritty and realistic fighting skill. Once you add grappling and groundwork to a fight, there’s no going back. Those old school roundhouse kicks and crane stances work in the proper context but don’t work when someone knocks you off your feet, coils around you like a snake and tries to choke the life out of you. Action directors today who work on modern-day films can no longer ignore some form of MMA fighting and still consider themselves relevant. In this context, Yen is way ahead of the pack in the East and the West. Not only is he the first Hong Kong action director to fully embrace this fighting style but he has managed, in an eight minute sequence, to utterly destroy every other attempt to film anything even remotely related to MMA fighting. THE BOURNE IDENTITY, CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE and many recent low-budget films like BEYOND THE RING have been buried. Yen merges the high-impact choreography Hong Kong is already famous for with MMA fighting and produces some sparring that looks truly painful. You will see fists and kicks connect. Once again, Hong Kong does screen fighting better than anyone in the world."
For me personally, the fight between Donnie Yen and Collin Chou is arguably the GREATEST modern fight ever filmed onscreen.
Download all 3 parts then extract with winrar:
Part 1:
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Part 3:
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