PARADOX

The Hong Kong police officer Lee (Louis Koo) follows his teenage daughter to Thailand, after she disappears without a trace. Together with local police officers, Lee goes head to head with organ traders in the tourist city Pattaya… Yip’s top thriller makes Liam Neeson’s TAKEN movies look like an old hat: the deep reaching entanglements surrounding Louis Koo’s character lead him through ever intensifying action scenes by the martial arts leviathan Sammo Hung. The choreographies are intoxicating, gravity defying, and painfully exact. Both Hung and Koo rightfully swept the board at all the big Asian film awards.