[KFCC] Heroic Trio Review

Story: Several infants have been kidnapped all over the city during the last few weeks, the police are without a clue to finding the criminals responsible. The police increase the security in the hospital but it is not use as the children are being taken away by some mysterious invisible force. Luckily a mysterious hero known only as Wonder Woman saves one of the children while the other is taken away. The father of the missing child is a high placed police officer who hires the services of a woman named Chat, she is a professional bounty hunter. Through a strange twist of events Chat and Wonder Woman end up working together against a far greater treat than just a simple kidnapper.

Review: Heroic Trio is a movie of the genre we like to call Comic Book Action, the name for the genre comes from the fact that the characters, story and general setting is the kind of thing you would find in a comic book. You can expect many far fetched things to happen in this movie, so it is important not to watch this movie as if it were serious else you might find some of the things in it stupid. To get a good idea of this movie think of super heroes that do fantasy Kung Fu (no special powers). The story is straight forward and in essence silly but there are some interesting twists between the main characters and their interactions.

The main characters are pretty exceptional in this movie, each of them unique distinct personalities and reasons for their actions. Besides the 3 main characters the rest are basically support and not much importance placed on them, even the villains seem somewhat minor. But going back to the 3 main characters we find they could have put a lot more focus on their backgrounds. They are pretty cool and you want to know and see more about them, there is already a decent background but its mostly essential information to make the story work.

Being a comic book type movie you can expect a little action from time to time, alright so maybe there is more than just a little. There is a high level of action during the movie yet they still manage to tell a story that does not make the action seem senseless. You have some Kung Fu mixed with a lot of fantasy kung fu style special effects (some of the special effects are not perfect but that is not important). One of the heroes does use guns but its seem like a mix of kung fu and gun fighting, looks very cool when Kung Fu is done with an M60 in hand. There is a lot of great ideas action wise for some of the scenes in this movie and of course some scenes you will find funny because it is just a bit cheesy, so don't take it too seriously.

The subtitles were very good quality, and there is not too much dialog to read. Heroic Trio is the kind of movie that if someone who has never seen HK cinema, sees it for the first time they will simply find it stupid (in the sense of something not serious). These movies may seem cheesy to the typical north American viewer but there is a certain mind set look at these types of movies. When we started watching the movie we found lot of the scenes in the beginning quite funny, not because of any comedy (there was none) but more for the fact that the most impossible things happened. Just like you would read a comic book for fun, watching this movie is just that for fun to be entertained. We do not recommend this movie to anyone who is not familiar with Hong Kong cinema, perhaps fans of comic books might find this interesting but even then do not imagine the American movies based on comic books because you not be on the level of this movie.