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Audio Format: DD 5.1 Surround Video Format: Widescreen 1.78:1 (Anamorphic) Languages: English Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 2004 Running Time: 100
Silver Hawk begins with a bike leap over the Great Wall of China by a silver-caped, masked figure - and the scene is set for an opening vignette about a kidnapped panda. Single-handedly, the vigilante crusader races up to a truck carrying the rare bear, uses her impressive martial arts skills to overpower a bevy of bad guys (with a little help from her even more impressive bike) and rescues the captive bamboo-eater. Playfully, she asks her opponents to fight her for a few more minutes - a request that is met by trembling and whimpering. But who is this vision in bacofoil?
Like all cartoon heroes, from Superman to Spiderman, Silver Hawk leads a double life. Her alter-ego is the glamourous model Lulu Wong, who is introduced to a tedious professor of Trotskyite aspect by her matchmaking aunt. But it transpires that the good professor's phone chip invention has come to the attention of arch-baddie Alexander Wolfe (Luke Goss), who promptly kidnaps the prof with the intention of using the device to brainwash the world through mobile phones and take over the planet. This is clearly a situation that requrires a superhero...
Through a series of flashbacks we get to see Lulu's formative years in a martial arts school, attended also by Rich Man (Richie Ran), a boy of many words and poses whose martial arts actions are overshadowed by Lulu's own, but whose kindliness and charisma endear him to the girl.
Back in the present, Rich Man is a braggart police superintendent charged with tracking down and arresting the vigilante Silver Hawk. But it soon becomes apparent that the vigilante and the cop must unite to fight the greater evil of Wolfe and prevent him from realising his dastardly vision.
Michelle Yeoh, also executive producer, clearly relishes her role as action hero. She's all smiles during fights and looks stunning in her role as Lulu Wong. She and Richie Ran enjoy endearing chemistry throughout, having lots of fun despatching baddies - who appear on rollerblades and bungee ropes and even with bright blue hair - along the way.
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