DVD & BLU RAY REVIEWS
Reviews by JAIME PINA
Royal Warriors & Yes, Madam
88 Films/MVD
These titles were previously released in a nice Blu-Ray box set containing the first four titles in the In The Line Of Duty film series. While all of the movies are enjoyable, including the others not included in the set, these first two features star Michelle Yeoh as a Hong Kong Police Officer who kicks a whole lot of ass. Royal Warriors was released in the US as In The Line Of Duty and then another film starring Yeoh produced the previous year, Yes, Madam, was distributed in the US as In The Line Of Duty II and the series took off from there.
In Royal Warriors Yeoh stars as Michelle Yip and we get introduced to her in a quick but effective opening scene where she deals on two thugs with swords who are after a lowly kitchen worker. The first extended fight sequence when mobsters arrange for a plane to be hijacked in order to free a criminal being extradited is insanely intense. Gunplay and martial arts in a pressurized cabin are usually nerve wracking but the action here is heart stopping. Yeoh, along with a Sky Security officer and a retired Japanese police officer all work to thwart the criminals but when the press tells their story the mobsters in charge seek revenge.
In Yes, Madam, Yeoh plays Inspector Ng and she teams with Cynthia Rothrock to track down some missing microfilm. The film’s finale is an extended sequence in an airport that is violent and exciting. The film was produced by Sammo Hung and he makes a cameo appearance.
Both films are bloody and violent with gunplay, martial arts action and crushing car chases. Both titles come with reversable cover art, in Cantonese or English with English subtitles, trailers and more.