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...stop them while simultaneously fighting the overpowering male chauvinism of the police force. (That the Hong Kong police force might be full of sexists is perhaps the most believable part of the whole film.) Kung fu flick aficionados will recognize Mok's character from roles played by Michelle Yeoh in the early 80s and 90s. Mok even does a backflip through glass as Yeoh did in 1985's Super...
...high spirits of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones films, with their roguish heroes, cultured antagonists and mytho-archaeological quests. Still, at least Spielberg threw in the occasional Arabic subtitle, thereby adding a bit of real atmosphere?a quality The Touch sadly lacks despite its $20 million budget. Pau and Yeoh may have hoped for a slick internationalism with their English-only policy and generic plot. Instead, what they deliver is a picture postcard from nowhere: the deserts could be any desert, the mountains any mountain...
...know Karl is evil from the start because he wears a black silk smoking jacket and uses words such as apropos.) Karl hires Eric (Chaplin), a master thief with the requisite heart of gold, to help him get the sharira. In turn, Eric involves his old girlfriend Lin (Yeoh) and her little brother Tong (Brandon Chang), star performers in a Chinese circus and descendants of the acrobatic family of destiny. The action careens from Qingdao to Dun Huang to Tibet, stopping for comic relief along the way. There is also some fighting, though not nearly enough...
...made his mark in indie films like The Birthday Party, puts up with being frozen, burned, beaten, insulted and generally treated with all the respect of a Chinese migrant worker. Roxburgh, with a sneer on his lips and murder in his dark, campy heart, all but steals the film. Yeoh's role as coproducer explains why her hair is windswept in at least 75% of the scenes. But you won't hear us complaining about that, or the fact that her co-star could be her son's college friend. She looks great?Yeoh's biological clock works on geologic...
...letdown. Director Pau, who won an Oscar for cinematography in Crouching Tiger, can frame a gorgeous scene, but has trouble keeping his story moving. He is not helped by Philip Kwok's jerky and unimaginative fight scenes or The Touch's lackluster special effects, used extensively whenever Yeoh does her flying thing and in the film's climactic fight?which takes place inside a fiery Buddhist shrine, but was clearly filmed in front of a blue screen. Neither realistic nor awe-inspiring, the special effects make the The Touch look cheaper than it is, like expensive makeup poorly applied...