This movie understands that every scene is better with fog and wind machines, even if those scenes are set inside offices and hospitals
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Directed by Johnnie To
The Heroic Trio
東方三俠
A high-energy, rewatchable action.
Action
Fantasy
Thriller
Adventure
Science Fiction
1993
1h 28m
While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.
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Cast & crew
6What people say
Johnnie To recruits three of the hottest Hong Kong actresses of all time and has them team up on a ridiculously melodramatic superhero origin story and some absurdly violent gun fights/Wuxia wire action to stop an evil, baby-kidnapping supernatural monk overlord that lives in the sewer. The action alone is so visually kinetic and maximalist that it's honestly dizzying. A nonstop barrage of borderline slapstick choreography, wide-angle lens movement, fog machines, squibs/gore gags, bizarre angles, and colors. Has some of the most flying knives, women, and cameras I've ever seen in a movie. There are fights involving invisible characters, many chopped-off fingers/decapitations, newborns hurled into nails, and Maggie Cheug firing shotguns in leather. At one point in the middle of a setpiece (with air-spinning motorcycles and sword-fighting) a train just bursts through a building wall out of nowhere. The climax is a wet neon street fight with dynamite and the head-butting of skeletons until their brains explode. What's not to like? Also funny to see Anthony Wong follow up Hard-Boiled with another insane action movie about babies in danger. Not only joins the fuck them kids canon (not sure I've seen the protagonist of a film heroically use TNT on cannibal children before) but also the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie on my list of "if this is what all superhero movies were like the world would be a better place."
Pretty wild how many children died.
Common questions
What is The Heroic Trio about?+
Three female warriors with distinct combat skills join forces to prevent a supernatural master from kidnapping children.
Who directed The Heroic Trio?+
Johnnie To directed this 1993 film, a notable work in the Hong Kong action-fantasy genre.
Is The Heroic Trio a sequel?+
It is followed by the film Executioners, which features the same central characters.
