“The Prosecutor” Theatrical Poster
After a disappointing turn with Polar Rescue, we’ll soon be seeing martial arts star Donnie Yen (Sakra, Chasing the Dragon) kick some actual ass in Mandarin Motion Pictures and China’s Huace Pictures’ The Prosecutor (aka Misjudgement) an action thriller from filmmaker Ho Pong Mak (Breakout Brothers trilogy), who co-directs along with Yen himself.
The Prosecutor is a poor young man is wrongly charged with drug trafficking after being deceived. An ex-prosecutor investigates the case, uncovers a corrupt lawyer team’s scheme, and restores justice despite obstruction from evil forces.
The Prosecutor also stars Kang Yu (Wu Xia, Big Brother), Julian Cheung (All U Need is Love, The Grandmaster), Francis Ng (Customs Frontline), Kent Cheng (I Did It My Way), Michael Hui (The Private Eyes), Mark Ho-nam Cheng (Guns of Dragon), Ray Lui (Death Notice), Pak Hon Chu (Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In), Adam Pak (Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy), Kong Lau (White Storm 2: Drug Lords) and Elizabeth “Liza” Wang Ming-chun.
Action and fight choreography for the film is handled by Yen, along with Kenji Tanigaki (Enter the Fat Dragon), Kang Yu (Chasing the Dragon) and Takahito Ouchi (Kamui Gaiden).
The Prosecutor hits U.S. Theaters on January 10th from Well Go USA! Watch the Trailer below:
We’re about feast, friends!
He going back to doing what he does best since his last two movies were flopped. Ipman 4 and Ragging Fire were his biggest hits in China and world wide. Ipman 5 and Flashpoint 2 which the later going to be similar to Ragging Fire are guaranteed hits.
This is interesting to say the least. I remember when Yen said he was done after part 3 because there were too many Ip Man films, then part 4 made everything conclusive and there couldn’t be anything else he could do with the character. I like the idea of him also being the director’s chair for this one.
As for Flash Point 2, I hope he’s got fuel in the tank for that. He ought to have some good opponents for his next films.
Oh no… Donnie… No…
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Both Michael Hui and Liza Wang as part of the cast? Donnie’s certainly bringing out the big guns.
i suspect i’ll hate Yen’s character just as much as i hated him in Raging Fire, but the action looks good.
It’s amazing what 60 year old guys are still willing to put themselves through. With all of Donnie’s other projects, I hope he still has fuel in the tank after what looks to be a bombastic ride.
“Funny” to see Michael Hui there… In Hong Kong, he’s in “The last dance”, a drama (kinda like a Chinese Departures maybe) that pulverizes right now the “local” box office (should finish 1, 2 or 3 of all time for a Chinese movie in Hong Kong…I don’t say Hong Kong movie for those done after 1997, specially when a lot of the big budget ones are done thanks to “mainland” producers, like Walled City).
Looks OK. But…too much like Wick & Co, and of course like A bittersweet life and The man from nowhere on the style/photography levels (with zero chance to be half as good as those last two) and of course too much CGI.
These movies begin to really look like each one is a copycat of the previous one.
Well, John Wick was mostly gunplay, jiujitsu and judo. The Prosecutor seems to be prioritizing kung fu and mixing in grappling like SPL and Flash Point did. Whatever CGI there may be is trivial and not the focus of the movie, so I’m not worried about that unless there’s CGI stunt doubles.
This simply looks hyperkinetic and uncomplicated.
“on the style/photography levels”
Well Go USA: DTV n’ streaming after a miserable exploitation in about 50 theatres.
The Washington DC area didn’t get Striking Rescue or 100 Yards, so I hope The Prosecutor doesn’t end up on the “not playing” list here.
I’m hoping for the best, and that this isn’t another Legend of the Fisting, but it’s unfortunate that the entitled cynics out there are already predicting why this movie will be bad, and when their prophecies don’t come true, they’ll resort to apophenia to invent criticisms.
There may be a lot of bullshit in the film industry, but some people just need to find another hobby if all they’re going to do is focus on what they hate.
I just caught this today:
THE PROSECUTOR is like a movie version of the long running TV Show Law & Order, in the sense that in it’s main plot of taking down a drug dealing gang, you’re shown both the efforts of Law Enforcement officers in nabbing the bad guys, and a team of lawyers prosecuting them in court.
But THE PROSECUTOR is first and foremost a DONNIE YEN film, which means Donniiiiiiiie both arrests the bad guys (after beating the ever living daylights out of them) and then drags them into court where, he dons the black robe and white wig and proceeds to prosecute them for a guilty verdict.
I’m probably making the movie sound silly, so from the onset let me make it clear that The Prosecutor is an absolute banger of an action film. It manages to be both a well executed Donnie Yen fight flick and a mostly engrossing courtroom thriller.
The Prosecutor opens with Donnie as a cop taking down some bad guys with a combo of well aimed bullets and well placed kicks, and you think you’re in for another Yen cop flick like FLASH POINT, SPECIAL ID or RAGING FIRE. But here’s where THE PROSECUTOR throws it’s first twist. When the baddie he apprehends is released on a technicality, Donnie eschews the cliched disgruntled cop response of handing in his badge and walking away, to handing in his badge and…wait for it…studying law to become a prosecutor which he does after 7 years, joining the Department of Justice where he aims to get the bad guys via meticulously delivered arguments, shrewd cross examining and convincing a jury of the defendant’s guilt.
Those worried that THE PROSECUTOR has Yen flexing his verbal skills more than his martial ones can rest easy. Yen frequently leaves the courtroom to deliver other important Life Lessons to the Bad Guys, chief among them being, f@#k with The Don and see your body absorb severe trauma from punches to the abdomen and kicks to the head. For those disappointed with the last 2 Donnie Yen movies, RAGING FIRE for having far too few fights and SAKRA for being overstuffed and confusing, THE PROSECUTOR makes amends for both. The plot here is pretty straightforward and the fights are plenty, the absolute stunner reserved for the climax where Yen takes on a gang of killers inside a crowded subway carriage. It’s pulverizing and brutal with kung fu kicks mixed with judo throws and Yen’s favorite MMA style grappling all used to sell the impact of each blow, which will make you wince as bodies are slammed into metal poles, smashed through windows and thrown onto seats.
At 61 years of age, Yen is still fighting fit and amazingly fluid in the action scenes although he’s obviously doubled for the more demanding stunts like jumping off a roof.
There’s a line of dialogue Yen delivers somewhere in the movie about getting older and that the younger generation needing to step up and fill the void. It functions as a meta commentary on the state of HK Action Cinema. With Jet Li all but retired owing to health issues and Jacky Chan making mostly unwatchable garbage for the last decade, once Donnie retires his feet and fists of fury, who’s the next viable Ass Kicking HK Super Star?
With most Chinese movies now made to cater for China’s Web Streamers, classic HK Actioners like the recent TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN and THE PROSECUTOR will become increasingly few and far between, so enjoy them while guys like Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung are still around to keep that flame burning.
Verdict: The defense rests and moves to declare THE PROSECUTOR a winner.