Silver Hawk (2004, Hong Kong)

A sort of Chinese Superwoman film; the Silver Hawk is a female techno superhero, always present at the scene of impending wickedness and foiling it with martial arts skills. The police don't like being outshone like this and do their bumbling best to track her down.

The police chief was at the Shaolin Temple with her when they were schoolchildren, and we see a lot of flashback to that time early in the film. But when there is a robbery at the bank, she gets there first and disarms the robbers; as she returns home, she encounters the police chief who has dressed as a girl. He tries to arrest her, but she wins, and handcuffs him to a lamppost. When some plainclothes police officers arrive, he says, "Arrest her!" but they know who the heroine is, and they just want her autograph, and they do one of those happy photographs of themselves with her; only the chief is unhappy.

The fight scene is shot with surreal back sunlight, and he really ought to wear an underskirt if he is going to fight wearing a thin skirt and with the sun behind him. And of course the moustache was a bit of a giveaway.

It's great fun.

The film was also released as Fei Ying.

HF February 2008

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