Bleeding Steel

Name: Bleeding Steel
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: July 6, 2018
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 43
Cast: Bowie Lam, Brendan Byrne, Callan Mulvey, Damien Garvey, Diana Hübel

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| Release Date: July 6, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Bowie Lam, Brendan Byrne, Callan Mulvey, Damien Garvey, Diana Hübel, Elena, Ellie Poussot, Erica Xia-Hou, Gillian Jones, Isabelle Wojciechowska, Jackie Chan, Javad Ramezani, Kaitlyn Boyé, Kim Gyngell, Michael McHugh, Nana Ou-Yang, Olga Miller, Show Luo, Temur Mamisashvili, Tess Haubrich

Summary: Lin (Jackie Chan) is a police inspector in modern Hong Kong. While tracking down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, Lin discovers that a geneticist's lost bio-chemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, hisLin (Jackie Chan) is a police inspector in modern Hong Kong. While tracking down a deranged, mecha-enhanced villain, Lin discovers that a geneticist's lost bio-chemical invention has been surgically implanted into his missing daughter. With the help of a young hacker, Lin connects the dots between the device that haunts his daughter, his enemy's sinister army, and a strange cultural phenomenon called "Bleeding Steel."… Expand

Director: Leo Zhang

Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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Clarence Tsui

Jul 5, 2018

Bleeding Steel is all about old-school thrills, and Zhang has delivered a wide range of them, from cafeteria catfights to expansive pyrotechnics — with not just one but two crotch-kicking gags thrown in for good measure. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Jan 26, 2018

Efficiently directed by Leo Zhang, the film features all the zesty fights, slick effects and goofy slapstick one expects from a Jackie Chan family movie, while glossy production values, a snappy beat and composer Peng Fei’s deafening score mimic that of a Hollywood movie, though the film’s corny cyberpunk pastiche appeals exclusively to kids. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Jul 5, 2018

This consistently ridiculous movie, written and directed by Leo Zhang, does offer Jackie Chan mixing it up at a magician’s rehearsal (he pulls a rabbit from a hat) and Jackie Chan kickboxing at the top of the Sydney Opera House. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Jun 28, 2018

Slick but cheesy, dubbed, filmed and set in Australia but really for the enormous Chinese film market. And Chan fans will find it memorable for one sequence which shows the 64 year-old can still make a fight funny. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Jul 6, 2018

Bleeding Steel is also unfortunately just one film in a string of lackluster globe-trotting action films that struggle to confirm Chan's decades-old self-image as a pop cultural ambassador. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Jul 5, 2018

Bleeding Steel is a cartoonishly crazy, completely nonsensical cyberpunk action flick that is torturous to behold, and well below Chan’s caliber. Read full review

A.J. Serrano

Jun 28, 2018

A film so brazen in its desire to reach a wide audience that it plays like a compilation of disparate action set pieces, each shamelessly stolen from successful Hollywood franchises. Read full review

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NileOuroboros

Jan 21, 2019

Most movies only require about a 2 hour attention span, and little else. Movies like Bleeding Steel require a connoisseur's approach. Huitlacoche - fungus infected corn that is - might be off-putting at first. But if you know how to tease out it's treasures, it's a delicacy beyond reproach.Most movies only require about a 2 hour attention span, and little else. Movies like Bleeding Steel require a connoisseur's approach. Huitlacoche - fungus infected corn that is - might be off-putting at first. But if you know how to tease out it's treasures, it's a delicacy beyond reproach. Jackie Chan is still rockin' it. It would be unreasonable of anyone to expect current Jackie to be as athletic as Jackie from 1986 - that would be just silly. Considering the number of times this legend has been around the sun, he's the bomb! I still can't do a tenth of what this beast nearly twice my age can.

The story... ahhh, the story. I don't know where to start. It's so gloriously incoherent. Darth Maul's apprentice show's up, there's a space ship looking airplane that has no reason to exist - and yet does! His daughter's doctor's genetic code and a bionic super heart and immortal regeneration powers and little people in a turban working for a mystic russian-roma-carribean witch lady in the midst of a 90s punk graffiti-laden wrong-side-of-the-tracks of West Side Story kinda way. And Kung Fu. There IS Kung Fu and wire work and the whole bit. This thing is spectacular. Unabashedly and entirely it's unapologetic self. Nothing makes sense. Explanations given a full 30 minutes after an introduced plot point only confuse the matter further. This decadent faberge egg of a train wreck deserves your attention. And 'Mystery Science Theatre' the bejeesus out of it while you're at it. No film yet made is worthier of it than this one.… Expand

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EludiumQ36

Sep 25, 2018

Serviceable action flick with trademark Jackie Chan fight scenes imbued with humor. It does seem to still be a product of the late '90s though. I liked the nugget of the plot, and some action scenes were real standouts even though they strained credulity. Decent enough overall.