Review | Film review: Helios, action thriller by Cold War directors
Helios is at its most entertaining when protagonists spout evocative one-liners on international relations, but relies on deafening action to temper its sheer silliness.
Starring: Nick Cheung Ka-fai, Jacky Cheung Hok-yau, Wang Xueqi, Chang Chen
Directors: Sunny Luk Kim-ching, Longman Leung Lok-man
Category: IIB (Cantonese, Putonghua, Korean)
moment in this action thriller is its final promise of a sequel. After a similar arrangement in their debut Cold War (2012), viewers of co-directors Sunny Luk Kim-ching and Longman Leung Lok-man's second film should brace themselves for another anticlimax.
Helios opens to the discovery that DC8 — a mobile weapon of mass destruction developed in South Korea — was stolen by the titular master thief (Chang Chen, pictured with Janice Man Wing-shan) and is expected to change hands in Hong Kong.