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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Five years ago, a fire took the life of Professor Poon, and the notebook on his research for a cure to a deadly disease disappeared without a trace. His assistant Gao Yu (Zhang Jingchu) was saved from a fiery death thanks to the quick action of Chong Tin-po (Daniel Wu), a security guard at the lab. Now the chief security officer at a top...

Directed By: Ringo Lam

Written By: Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shiqi Shen, Ringo Lam

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 39 m

Sky on Fire

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Summary Five years ago, a fire took the life of Professor Poon, and the notebook on his research for a cure to a deadly disease disappeared without a trace. His assistant Gao Yu (Zhang Jingchu) was saved from a fiery death thanks to the quick action of Chong Tin-po (Daniel Wu), a security guard at the lab. Now the chief security officer at a top...

Directed By: Ringo Lam

Written By: Hiroshi Fukazawa, Shiqi Shen, Ringo Lam

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60
Dec 8, 2016
There are some thrilling sequences, to be sure, but the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 5, 2016
There’s really nothing new here. Still, it’s hard to deny the sporadically satisfying nostalgic appeal of this dash down memory lane.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 1, 2016
This is a Hong Kong action picture in the classical mode, balancing mayhem with sentimentality, offering up bone-crunching and jaw-dropping set pieces, and pulling out all the stops for a finale teeming with stressful twists and turnabouts — not to mention kicks, punches, gunshots and explosions.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
40
Dec 1, 2016
Keeping up with the betrayals and shifting allegiances is more tedious than fun, while the simplistic moralizing about callous corporate greed, and the detours into tragedy, fall flat.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
25
Dec 2, 2016
Only really comes alive when cars are being used as battering rams and computer-generated explosions proliferate like fireworks.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Skyland Film-Television Culture Development
Release Date Dec 2, 2016
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://movie.mtime.com/225674/
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