Director: Stephen Fung
Notable Cast: Andy
Lau, Shu Qi, Jean Reno, Zhang Jing-Chu, Tony Yang, Sha Yi, Eric Tsang
With the popularity of heist films still a thing, it’s not
all that shocking that the Chinese film market would want to get in on it too
as the Hollywood market seems to be doing quite well over there with the style.
Marvel is doing it with their Ant-Man
films, the Mission: Impossible series
continues to draw in crowds, and the world-wide phenomenon that The Fast and the Furious franchise has
become with its globetrotting action heist adventures only seems to generate
more revenue as it goes. Thusly, we get a more Mission: Impossible inspired version of Once a Thief in The
Adventurers, which sports Stephen Fung in multiple facets behind the camera
along with a massively impressive cast to go with it including the critically
acclaimed and box office draws of both The Everlasting Andy Lau and Shu Qi in
tow. Like many of the western films mentioned above, The Adventurers sets its sights on big screen suave with its international
settings, cast, and adventure that’s mostly carried by the sheer charisma of
its cast. It’s not a film that will have critics swooning for a new franchise,
but it’s a film that earns its merits by being fun and exciting in its
execution if nothing else. The
Adventurers sets out for high stakes international adventure and finds a
massively entertaining film in the process.