Dread Pirate (Tom) RobertsI bought this movie thinking it was a completely different movie.
(I thought it was The Heroic Trio)
Luckily, this is an excellent movie in its own right.
So the year this film was made (1987) Michelle Yeoh got married and retired from acting at age 25.
5 years later she got divorced, came out of retirement, and joined Jackie Chan for ‘Police Story 3: Supercop’ (which is amazing).
They built an entire city for this film so they could destroy it piece by piece in the final epic action scene.
It’s a city in 1930s regional China, under Japanese, so relatively easy to construct, but the ambition here is wild.
The final shot of the film is them actually burning down the entire walled city set that they actually built for this film.
Billowing smoke pouring off the numerous structures ablaze.
Noone makes films like this.