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　　《红色警戒》是一部有关缉毒题材的悬念动作影片，故事取材于永泰一个农村家庭发生的真实故事，并在福州大量取景。主角王力因童年阴影，从警校退学后当外卖员，因兄弟孙昭和女友白美丽而卷入毒奶茶事件，发现竟与19年前父母的死有关，最终他战胜自己的恐惧心理，成为继承父亲遗志的一名缉毒警察。

天下会帮主雄霸（千叶真一饰）欲得天下，请神算泥菩萨（黎耀祥饰）批算，泥菩萨预言他的前半生：“金鳞岂是池中物，一遇风云便化龙。”于是雄霸下令找两名孩童收为徒弟，他们生辰八字要与批示相符，以助雄霸大业。他们就是聂风（郑伊健饰）和步惊云（郭富城饰），但实际上二人都与雄霸有不共戴天之仇。风、云与大师兄秦霜及雄霸女儿孔慈（杨恭如饰演）成长成人，习得一身好武艺，天下会几乎称霸武林。惟有死对头剑圣让雄霸不放心，但“成也风云，败也风云”，雄霸开始以女人为工具对付聂风和步惊云，并造成孔慈之死。逃走的步惊云为楚楚（舒淇饰演）所救回。步惊云、聂风携手对付雄霸……

　　在胡金铨的年表中，《忠烈图》似乎恰成分水岭，此后他对影片中武打场面的经营渐渐递减，开始强调更多形而上的思维。本片描述明朝一群忠义侠士，抵御倭寇入侵的故事，最精彩处在于胡导大量以「棋盘」布阵的创意，藉以比喻敌我双方的对峙。除了徐枫、白鹰等班底，片中还能看到洪金宝、元彪、元华这些后来的武打明星的年轻模样。

　　Suffering from amnesia, a young man trying to discover his true identity is kidnapped by an underground crime organization and turned into a ruthless assassin.

Director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Objectified) completes his design film trilogy with Urbanized. Exploring the design of cities with the world’s foremost architects, policymakers and engaged citizens, Urbanized frames a global discussion about how the design of our cities affects our lives.

　　Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop?
　　Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller.
　　The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narration/voice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters.
　　Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppie/violence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with "black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge.
　　However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.

　　一个女孩逃到了纽约的布朗克斯区,该区被政府视为无人区,女孩为世界最大财团的继承人,为了争夺这个女孩,各派势力展开了较量。

　　民国初年的上海滩，灯红酒绿掩饰不住浮华下的罪恶与贫苦。此刻中国大地饥荒横行，哀鸿遍野，大批难民涌入上海滩。面对国难，官员不思为国分忧，反而勾结奸商从中获利，大发国难之财。
　　已经退居二线的老法官关咏白面对此情此景，痛心不已。他联合自己的几个学生组织了第二法庭，对罪大恶极且逃脱法律制裁又证据确凿的贪官们执行死刑，而死刑的执行者就是自己的多年挚友，武功精进的“判官”徐青柏。接二连三的刺杀事件震慑了贪官，也惊动了南京政府。南京政府派下中统调查科得力干将秦域在上海展开了对徐青柏的强大搜捕。徐青柏只好暂时隐藏起来，而与此同时，秦域又采用强硬手段，开始打压所有心向关咏白心向民盟的进步人士。一场较量由此展开。