Product Details

• Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Michael Wong, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ying Bai, Dennis Chan
• Directors: David Chung
• Writers: Kan-Cheung Tsang
• Producers: Chan Kiu Ying, Dickson Poon, John Sham
• Format: AC-3, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 5.1), Mandarin Chinese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Vietnamese, Japanese, Georgian, Thai
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.75:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304747209
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,211 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Royal Warriors" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Long before Michelle Yeoh hit the international mainstream as a motorbiking Bond girl in Tomorrow Never Dies, and even before U.S. audiences saw her as Jackie Chan's sidekick (literally) in Supercop, she was a Hong Kong action star in her own right. In Royal Warriors, released in 1986, Yeoh plays a Hong Kong police officer who happens to be flying home from Japan on the same flight as a criminal being extradited. In a precursor to the spate of shootout-on-a-plane movies of the 1990s (Air Force One, Executive Decision, Turbulence, Con Air), an accomplice kills the police escorts and frees the criminal midflight. An impromptu team of Yeoh, an air security officer named Michael Wong (played by--hey! Michael Wong of Once a Thief), and an about-to-retire Japanese Interpol officer (played by Henry Sanada) manages to wipe out the bad guys and save the plane. It turns out, though, that the two baddies were half of a quartet of war veterans who once vowed to stick together to the death, and the two remaining are determined to avenge their friends. Although there are three heroes, Yeoh is definitely the star here, combining strong martial-arts moves with a warm personality. Sanada can match Yeoh kick for kick but is angry and sullen through most of the film, while Wong mostly serves as a gadfly to Yeoh. Action fans are treated to the obligatory car chase, revenge motives, annoying bureaucrats, explosions, and bodies diving in slow motion. The film is available in subtitled and dubbed versions, both widescreen. --David Horiuchi

Product Description

These three stars team up in a botched plane hijacking attempt by a militia fanatic. When his veteran friends vow revenge the threesome are in for a fight. Subtitles with on/off function in english chinese japanese korean vietnamese malaysian thai and indoesian. Trailers chapters and filmographies. Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 06/19/2001 Starring: Michelle Yeoh Michael Wong Run time: 92 minutes Rating: Nr Director: David Chung

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing, January 26, 2003

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Simon Booth (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Royal Warriors (DVD)

ROYAL WARRIORS is simply one of the best action movies ever made. It features the bone-crunchingly brutal style of Hong Kong choreography that was perfected in the 80's following the renaissance initiated by Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, and it has rarely looked better than it does in this movie. This is text book action cinema, and Michelle Yeoh is remarkable.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars michelle yeoh at her best, December 5, 2001

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Dragon Man X (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Royal Warriors (DVD)

Wow...the martial arts in this movie really surprised me considering how raw and brutal some of the scenes were. Great movie with a great story. For those that don't know, this is the second installment of the In The Line of Duty series...I highly suggest checking out In The Line of Duty IV...but RW is awesome in terms of martial arts, you can expect a really brutal michelle yeoh in this one...story centers around michelle yeoh as a police officer along with a japanese police officer and an annoying security guard who prevents a plane from being hijacked by terrorists for the purpose of freeing a convict. They killed all the terrorists along with the convict, but then the convict's 3 best War buddies plot a revenge on the 3 individuals, and the rest of the movie is about pure survival...there are many dramatic parts in the film, but you'll be rooting for michelle all the way...definitely one of her best...

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars don't mess with yeoh, May 17, 2000

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shi sheeng - See all my reviews

This review is from: Royal Warriors [VHS] (VHS Tape)

this movie was really good, the action sequences have a nice flare to them that movies these days seem to lack. yeoh's martial arts skill and preformance make this a pretty enjoyable movie. I think this movie, Yes madam, the tai chi master, and supercop show her in her top martial art preformance.