Product Details

• Actors: Andy Lau, Michelle Reis, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Claudia Lau, Jessica Chau (II)
• Directors: Gordon Chan
• Format: AC-3, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Mandarin Chinese (Dolby Digital 5.1), Cantonese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Chinese
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 1, 1998
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305020671
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #189,031 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Like a high-tech version of the Christian apocalypse tale Left Behind with a skeptical skew, Gordon Chan's Armageddon (not to be confused with the Bruce Willis giant asteroid adventure of the same name) haphazardly combines end-of-the-world prophecies from various faiths with a murky X-Files-like mystery. The world's greatest scientists spontaneously combust after receiving a cryptic note ("You Have No Choice"), and communications genius Andy Lau (Savior of the Soul) is roused from mourning the death of his fiancée to investigate. Anthony Wong (Hard-Boiled) costars as his buddy and bodyguard, a shaggy, sloppy street cop out of place in the high-tech environment, and Michelle Reis (Fong Sai Yuk) is the dead girlfriend who steps out of his flashbacks and into his life, like a ghost providing him with clues. The darkly handsome film is more tech noir than action thriller, with a spiritual undercurrent, a serious tone, and a slow, moody buildup. Chan breathes some excitement into the otherwise somber film with some intriguing effects and a striking climax, but he never really clears up the cryptic mystery. Still, he got the jump on Hollywood. Produced and released in 1997, when the fear of Hong Kong's return to China was investing everything from gangster movies to costume epics with a rumbling, paranoid sense of confusion, his millennial thriller is at least as interesting as the U.S. attempts that followed (End of Days, Stigmata, Lost Souls) and certainly more fun. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars H.K. X-files, romance, history, and humour rolled into one!, December 31, 1998

By A Customer

I have watched many movies by Andy Lau in which most were of comedy/romance/street gang-like...so, this movie has a freshness. It talks about Dr. Ken (played by Andy Lau) who is named one of the most promising young scientists in the world and his search for an answer on why his dead fiance (Michelle Rels) has come back to the world. Meanwhile, other top scientists and world contributers are killed in ways that were never used before (nope, not a gun, not poison...more like turning one into powder...). He and his friends begin to suspect that the reappearance of Adele (Rels) and the deaths of the scientists are messages from God that the end of the world is near and that Dr. Ken is the only one that is eligible to save the human race...

This is an excellent film with great special effects, music accompliment (including "Why Take Her Away" by Andy Lau), beautiful shots at Prague, and a great cast!

2.0 out of 5 stars Pure junk, August 27, 2007

By	Phillip Nunemacher (Carson City, NV United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Ok, I've seen it despite the poor reviews. I can't say I wasn't told. The only reason this gets two stars is it was a really bad train wreak of a movie as one five star review, on another site, said. DON"T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS.

5.0 out of 5 stars I really loved this movie, I don't get what everyone else's problem is!, June 16, 2007

By	Azalais Aranxta "mistressataniell" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Armageddon (DVD)

I saw this in the theatre in 1997 and thought it ruled. Andy Lau was brill as the scientist, Anthony Wong is always fantastic, and it was a great supernatural thriller, which is a genre you don't see so much of in HK films. I really enjoyed it completely and I have no idea why anyone else dislikes it--perhaps it's just not what they expect from an HK film? But if you like things like Twin Peaks, Supernatural, Profit, Hex, Existenz, or The Matrix I think you will enjoy this movie!