Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2023, THE HEROIC TRIO deserves a damn victory lap. Playing like a greatest hits of Hong Kong action’s funnest tricks, this maximalist joyride is all gas no brakes.
Johnnie To’s Hong Kong is a gothic, brutalist playscape occupied by wires and fog. Masters of the flying guillotine co-exist with desktop computers. Tex Avery writes the laws of physics. It’s always a little windy, even indoors.
An ancient evil lurks beneath the city streets...a baby-snatching baddie for whom police and professors are no match. Enter Maggie Cheung (Thief Catcher), Michelle Yeoh (Invisible Girl), and the late Anita Mui (Wonder Woman)...conflicted vigilantes and three of the baddest to ever do it.
Stuffed to the gills with on-the-nose allusions and potent visual motifs, THE HEROIC TRIO is a practical effects extravaganza with wild fits, at least two of your kinks, and a melodic theme that will live in your head rent-free.