Wicked City

Director: Tai Kit Mak
Actors: Woo-ping Yuen, Michelle Reis, Leon Lai, Carman Lee, Jacky Cheung
Studio: Image Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 20 reviews
Sales Rank: 80169

Format: Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Cantonese (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

ISBN: 6305268142
UPC: 014381466423
EAN: 9786305268147
ASIN: 6305268142

Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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1 out of 5 stars One and a half stars - This is wicked boring poo-poo...    June 22, 2006
Kevin Rienecker (Portland, OR USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have a vague memory of seeing the live Hong-Kong version of Wicked City prior to watching the Anime version, and liking it. No idea why I got the viewing order switched around, but these things happen. I even remember liking this low-budget sci-fi stuntfest AFTER watching the Anime.

Funny how your mind can play tricks on you. With that tiny, vague memory in place, I bought a used DVD copy at a fire-sale that my local video store was having (should'a been a hint, probably). Feeling oddly like I'd just found a long lost bit of treasure, I gleefully tore home, popped the disk in my DVD player, and spent the next hour and a half bored out of my mind, wondering what the h*** I'd been thinking.

There's plenty going on here... More than director Tai Kit Mak can seem to get a handle on. The movie is creative enough within its confined budget, with more special effects, cheesy acting (LOTS of jump cuts to over-emoting actors wearing baggy suits or doe-eyed actresses in skimpy dresses), and hyper-kinetic, high-flying stunts than you can shake a creepy vampire-spider-lady at.

The plot? Something about a hundred year old war between speedy, gun-toting Humans and super-powered Monsters disguised as humans, that's quickly coming to a nasty head. Two Hong Kong cops and the head-honcho monster's daughter are the only thing standing in the way of a full-monster takeover, via an imported Monster drug called 'Happiness'; a highly addictive energy drug that causes a nasty case of spontaneous combustion if you stop taking it.

My advice? Stick with the Anime - although I haven't seen that in a long time either, so maybe it's as bad as this...




3 out of 5 stars NismoSpeed    August 4, 2005
B. Snider (Vast Desert)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

To "A Viewer" that stated that nudity is not nice to put in anime. You cant have a good anime without some form of sex. As far as this film goes, not quite as cool as the actual anime it was based on, but still worth the time.


5 out of 5 stars Wicked City    May 1, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The comic book action is what makes the backbone of this movie that is based on the manga. The plot involves a woman from another dimension and a human policeman from earth who are trying to keep the peace between their races by preventing an assasination and staying alive in the process. There are subplots involving policeman's partner being part human and part preturnatual beastie keeping his evil wild side in check while helping him and the woman out; the love story between the policeman and the woman; and all of the characters questioning where their loyalties lie. I highly recommend this movie to anime and manga fans.


3 out of 5 stars AN AVERAGE ANIME    April 12, 2003
0 out of 6 found this review helpful

This anime is average.
Its about a guy and a girl from another world who are supposed to guard an old man attending an important meeting between humans and the demon world but in the end they were the ones that have to attend.
The movie has quite some nudity which is not nice to put in an anime.Not the best anime ive seen


3 out of 5 stars The quality of DVD is not good    May 18, 2002
Hsu Tun-Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful

1.It's a cut version. Carman Lee is not killed by Jacky Chen.
2.Picture and sound quality is very poor.
3.The audio tracks is only Cantonese without Mandarin.