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  Review by HKFanatic ★★★

  Michelle Yeoh's "Mission: Impossible II"...except not half as awesome as that sounds. I love director Ching Siu-Tung dearly, but it's comical how much of this film is shot from low angles with wide lenses, a fan trained on the actors so their hair is blowing dramatically. It's definitely an aesthetic choice. I was expecting this to be more along the lines of Clarence Fok's "The Black Panther Warriors," a sort of gun-fu wuxia fantasia, but even though the bad guys keep coming at them in droves with guns glazing, the Wonder Seven tend to just smile and fight them off with lassos and gymnastics.

  It creates a jarring sense of tones until the big finale, when the Wonder Seven finally…

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  Review by _Stephan_ ★★★

  Another Hong-Kong Action Film starring Michelle Yeoh.

  The Film is about a Special Unit that gets Caught up in a Conspiracy.

  Unfortunately, Michelle only plays a Supporting Role here, which is why there isn't enough of her to see, of course.
  The other Actors do a decent Job and there are also good Action-Scenes.
  However, the Film is a bit Kitschy at Times, but overall it's a solid Film.

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  Review by Wonggifs ★★ 5

  Exhibit X in the case for Ching Siu-tung being the most overrated Hong Kong director, Wonder Seven features a nonsensical plot, boring characters, and makes the bizarre choice to have Michelle Yeoh, at close to the peak of her '90s popularity, play second fiddle to 'some guy'.

  Trying to decipher the plot is like trying to untangle soup, with numerous factions vying over some kind of electronic keycard macguffin. The subtitles on the Universe DVD are poor, leading to difficulties in keeping track of who is aligned with who, but the pace is so breakneck and loyalties seem so shifting that even with a perfect translation it might be hard to keep up.

  The action's not all that great either.…

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  Review by More_Badass ★★★

  Wonder Seven answers that age-old question of “What if ‘90s wuxia but Police Story”. Ching Siu-Ting transplants his distinctive frenetic creavitity from martial-world heroes to dirt-bike vigilantes, guns, and other modern-day mayhem. Story-wise, this is pretty flat and uninspired, only gaining a spark of life when Michelle Yeoh is onscreen (which is a decent amount). It’s Siu-Ting’s era-shift of wuxia elements - calling out special attacks but now with bikes and grenades, a lion dance and wire-fu among midday traffic, bending physics to pull off high-flying vehicular stunts and shootouts - that maintains attention. The finale rampages through a skyscraper, up an elevator shaft, before bringing in a helicopter for good measure.

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  Review by johnholmes ★★ 3

  English part below

  Mei wie anstrengend.
  Als hätte man Tsui Hark ne Valium und Speed gleichzeitig hinter die Stirn getackert. Die deutsche Nervsynchro tut ihr übriges.

  Michelle Yeoh ist auf ewig eine Göttin, aber sie kann hier auch nichts reißen.
  Manche Stunts oder Kämpfe taugen was, gehen aber völlig unter in dem ganzen hyperaktiven Kasperletheater.

  4,5

  How exhausting.
  It's like Tsui Hark had Valium and speed stapled behind his forehead at the same time. The annoying German dubbing does the rest.

  Michelle Yeoh is forever a goddess, but she can't do anything here either.
  Some of the stunts and fights are good, but they get completely lost in all the hyperactive Punch and Judy show.

  4,5

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  Review by Thor ★★★½ 2

  This reminded me of my late teens, when I had a little crush on Michelle Yeoh... and it looks like I might still have one.

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  Review by Brad Henderson ★★★½

  WONDER SEVEN holds up. Definitely holds back on the action when it feels from the beginning it’s going to deliver with all its corniness. Some of the wire work/stunt work is really good in this as well as the gunplay. Yeoh steals the show like usual.

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  Review by Joe ★★★★½

  I didn't care that the plot is boarder line incomprehensible because none of that mattered when it launched into another wonderfully ludicrous action scene...which was frequently.

  What tipped this up that extra half star was the elevator vs helicopter scene and a viking funeral where the corpse is strapped to a motorcycle with dynamite and driven off a cliff where it explodes mid air.

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  Review by Simon Lang ★★★

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  Film #5 of "ACTIONx52 | 2020 Challenge"
  Task #10: Film with a Female lead
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  Pretty messy in tone and narrative (sometimes it's even difficult to tell who is who), yet convincing on the action front. Ching Siu-Tung's (A CHINESE GHOST STORY I-III) film features plenty of stunts, martial arts, gunplay, explosions, and gymnastics by Chinese Olympic gold-medalist Li Ning. WONDER SEVEN is no classic by any means, but Michelle Yeoh is always worth a look.

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  Review by ~findlay ★★

  all those wires, dutch angles, slo-mo, soft-smoked set ups and zooms had me convinced i was watching some alan smithee Ronnie Yu film here but alas, its not. Its worse.

  fuck knows who this is for? kids maybe? but absolutely unintentionally.
  the comedy suxxxxxx and the stunts are weak and the main characters are weak and it all feels like a waste of time.

  still love u tho michelle, ur my shining star

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  Review by Invincible Asia ★★½

  A bit like a live action anime from Hong Kong about a group of motorcycle cops, or a bike copper wu xia, just not as great as that sounds. The action just lacks the weight needed to make one really care. Michelle Yeoh as a Japanese lady makes up for a bit of that though.

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  Review by BrianNaas ★★ 2

  I watched this film ages ago and didn't think it was very good, but now that Michelle Yeoh is Everything Everywhere All at Once, I wanted to give it another go. I also came upon a few very positive reviews and with a great pedigree, why not. It is directed by Ching Siu-tung and choreographed by him, Dion Lam and Xiong Xin-xin. It doesn't get much better than that. Yeoh was just coming off her film Wing Chun which has its weaknesses (Donnie Yen) but has some remarkable martial arts displays. Then for reasons that she later said she regretted; she took this role in which a bunch of other actors get more screen time than she does. You watch…