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  • 2014
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  • Well Go USA Entertainment
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  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
Special ID

Summary Donnie Yen is Zilong "Dragon" Chen, an undercover cop deep inside China’s most ruthless crime syndicate. The boss, Xiong (Collin Chou), swears to find every traitor and make them pay with their lives. Agents are turning up dead. His days are numbered. Desperate to protect his family and his life, Chen must risk everything to protect the ...

Directed By: Clarence Fok

Written By: Tai-lee Chan, Kam-Yuen Szeto

  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2014
  • R
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

Special ID

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Donnie Yen is Zilong "Dragon" Chen, an undercover cop deep inside China’s most ruthless crime syndicate. The boss, Xiong (Collin Chou), swears to find every traitor and make them pay with their lives. Agents are turning up dead. His days are numbered. Desperate to protect his family and his life, Chen must risk everything to protect the ...

Directed By: Clarence Fok

Written By: Tai-lee Chan, Kam-Yuen Szeto

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
47
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
47
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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70
Mar 6, 2014
The lens work by "Crouching Tiger" cinematographer Peter Pau looks super slick; and the film's conformity to trends in regional commercial cinema yields respectable results. But Special ID truly comes alive when it busts out the good ol' fashioned Hong Kong daredevil stunt work.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 7, 2014
And yet it's impossible to deny that what Special ID does well it does extremely well.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 4, 2014
All the performers are supremely entertaining while dealing or defying horrible deaths... but Yen unfortunately lacks the kind of charisma that can elevate a genre film to a higher level of satisfaction.
By Zachary Wigon FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 5, 2014
The audience becomes conditioned to expect the action a few moves before the film makes them, which quickly renders the story tedious.
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50
Mar 4, 2014
The story is a hopeless mess that from the outset seems to be missing key exposition that might help fill in some of its many gaps.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 6, 2014
Maddeningly muddled and frustratingly counterintuitive... the story shuttles between Hong Kong and mainland China without a noticeable gain in logic or reduction in decibels.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Beijing Starlit Movie and TV Culture, China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), China Movie Channel
Release Date Mar 7, 2014
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.specialid.ayapro.ne.jp/
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Awards

Hong Kong Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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