Another Dante Lam movie, acceptable enough but a far cry from the true excellence of his previous work, OPERATION RED SEA. This one's an overlong disaster movie in which an air sea rescue team have to attend a number of accidents and catastrophes and try to rescue those involved: there are crashed trucks, burning oil rigs, exploding ships, even a downed airliner at one point. Lam's go-to guy Eddie Peng is the square-jawed hero (although he looks oddly like a Lego man here) while the supporting cast is as cliched as they come. And that's what lets this film down: the relationship and humour is forced and melodramatic, leaving only the visual spectacle to impress. At a budget of $90 million they spent loads on the set-pieces, mixing real-life vehicles with decent CGI, and they do look fantastic. The whole film is bright and colourful which I really appreciated. But when you don't care about the characters involved, you can only enjoy a film like this to a certain degree.
Review of The Rescue
