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- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 49 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 49 m
Summary Lin (Jackie Chan) is a police inspector in modern Hong Kong. While tracking down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, Lin discovers that a geneticist's lost bio-chemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, his...
Directed By: Leo Zhang
Written By: Erica Xia-Hou, Siwei Cui, Leo Zhang
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 49 m
- 2018
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 49 m
Bleeding Steel
43
5.3
Where to Watch
Summary Lin (Jackie Chan) is a police inspector in modern Hong Kong. While tracking down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, Lin discovers that a geneticist's lost bio-chemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, his...
Directed By: Leo Zhang
Written By: Erica Xia-Hou, Siwei Cui, Leo Zhang
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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1 Review
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
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50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
43
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Bleeding Steel is all about old-school thrills, and Zhang has delivered a wide range of them, from cafeteria catfights to expansive pyrotechnics — with not just one but two crotch-kicking gags thrown in for good measure.
Efficiently directed by Leo Zhang, the film features all the zesty fights, slick effects and goofy slapstick one expects from a Jackie Chan family movie, while glossy production values, a snappy beat and composer Peng Fei’s deafening score mimic that of a Hollywood movie, though the film’s corny cyberpunk pastiche appeals exclusively to kids.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
5.3
32% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
53% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
16% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 User Ratings
5.3
32% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
53% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
16% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Most movies only require about a 2 hour attention span, and little else. Movies like Bleeding Steel require a connoisseur's approach. Huitlacoche - fungus infected corn that is - might be off-putting at first. But if you know how to tease out it's treasures, it's a delicacy beyond reproach. Jackie Chan is still rockin' it. It would be unreasonable of anyone to expect current Jackie to be as athletic as Jackie from 1986 - that would be just silly. Considering the number of times this legend has been around the sun, he's the bomb! I still can't do a tenth of what this beast nearly twice my age can.
The story... ahhh, the story. I don't know where to start. It's so gloriously incoherent. Darth Maul's apprentice show's up, there's a space ship looking airplane that has no reason to exist - and yet does! His daughter's doctor's genetic code and a bionic super heart and immortal regeneration powers and little people in a turban working for a mystic russian-roma-carribean witch lady in the midst of a 90s punk graffiti-laden wrong-side-of-the-tracks of West Side Story kinda way. And Kung Fu. There IS Kung Fu and wire work and the whole bit. This thing is spectacular. Unabashedly and entirely it's unapologetic self. Nothing makes sense. Explanations given a full 30 minutes after an introduced plot point only confuse the matter further. This decadent faberge egg of a train wreck deserves your attention. And 'Mystery Science Theatre' the bejeesus out of it while you're at it. No film yet made is worthier of it than this one.
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Serviceable action flick with trademark Jackie Chan fight scenes imbued with humor. It does seem to still be a product of the late '90s though. I liked the nugget of the plot, and some action scenes were real standouts even though they strained credulity. Decent enough overall.
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The closest comparison for this film is 2017’s joyfully schlocky Beyond Skyline, though that boasted far more original set pieces. Bleeding Steel seems content to rehash old ones, cutting and pasting Chan into familiar scenes, with the welcome exception of one battle that takes place atop the Sydney Opera House — but I’ll be damned if I could figure out why or how they got there.
Bleeding Steel is also unfortunately just one film in a string of lackluster globe-trotting action films that struggle to confirm Chan's decades-old self-image as a pop cultural ambassador.
Slick but cheesy, dubbed, filmed and set in Australia but really for the enormous Chinese film market. And Chan fans will find it memorable for one sequence which shows the 64 year-old can still make a fight funny.
Bleeding Steel is a cartoonishly crazy, completely nonsensical cyberpunk action flick that is torturous to behold, and well below Chan’s caliber.
A film so brazen in its desire to reach a wide audience that it plays like a compilation of disparate action set pieces, each shamelessly stolen from successful Hollywood franchises.
Despite the sub-par writing, the cliché and predictable story and the very average comedy elements, there is still quite a lot of fun to be had with the film. The action sequences are well made, the soundtrack is decent and the movie is quite entertaining. If you're in the mood for an easy to watch action film, you might end up finding it enjoyable.
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An inept sf cinema from Asia that tries to pretend to be American, cliché and stereotypical spy movies with an idiotic villain. Obviousness chases the obvious and the best elements from the whole film are the gags with Jackie Chan, which are the only refined scenes. The worst falls outfits and scenographies, although the whole promised to be really good.
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"Bleeding Steel" was a mediocre movie with acceptable performance including the Jackie Chan´s performance, confusing and tedious story and very bad vfx, that a great movie exportator like China didn´t deserve.
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Production Company
Heyi Pictures,
WanDa Pictures,
Perfect Village Entertainment,
Jetsen Cultural Industry Group,
Beijing TUS Film & Television Media,
Dadi Century,
Funhigh Media Tech,
Lionsgate Premiere,
Art Glory (Hong Kong),
Mango Entertainment,
Xiaomi Pictures,
Tianjin Wuba Film Culture,
Cheerful Land Pictures,
Providence Media,
Derui Media,
Horgos Funhigh Film,
Xiyuan Media,
Youku Pictures (HK),
58 Pictures,
Village Roadshow Pictures Asia
Release Date Jul 6, 2018
Duration 1 h 49 m
Rating R
Tagline One man must unravel the past to save the future.
Website
http://policestory-reborn.com/
Awards
Guangzhou Student Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
