Cast: Andy Lau, Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Sharla Cheung
Region: B
Label: 88FILMS
MAGIC CRYSTAL (1986) is a kung fu action adventure film directed by Wong Jing.
A high-kicking soldier-of-fortune (Andy Lau, INFERNAL AFFAIRS) finds himself on the trail of an alien artefact and forced to contend with both an intrepid lady FBI agent (Cynthia Rothtrock, LADY REPORTER) and a Russian crime lord (Richard Norton, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’).
The feet and fists fly fast and funky on sunny Greek locations, on Hong Kong’s mean streets and amid the ruins of an ancient UFO. Populist Hong Kong film-maker Wong Jing (‘City Hunter’) remixes ‘ET’ into a wacky comedy caper that delivers some of the best traditional kung fu fighting ever performed in a modern setting.
