Fatal Termination (Chi se da feng bao)

A ruthless crime drama that is infamous for the reckless stunt involving a young child being dangled out of a speeding car, Fatal Termination is actually a lot more than a showcase for the amoral practices of the Hong Kong film industry. The movie tells a compelling story…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

You ever watch a stunt so insane, that even though it’s the thing the film is kind of famous for, you still can’t believe you’re seeing it? Yeah. Even by Hong Kong standards, dangling a small child outside a speeding car window is crazy. And both worrying and hilarious.…

Lexzilla

"Fatal Termination" is a 1990 action film directed by Andrew Kam. At face value it holds cannon in the "Girls with Guns" genre but as that might be an attractor to get an audience with a hook, the film is a bit expansively different than what can be assumed to a degree. At…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

largely generic but amusingly meanspirited HK action thriller. if you're anything like me, you rented a hundred of these on scruffy Tai Seng VHS in the 90s. you picked it up because Simon Yam is in it, and Moon Lee from ZU (good here, totally unhinged), and Robin Shou, the…

matt lynch

Watched the uncut Error 4444 Blu-ray in Cantonese with English subs. The synopsis here on Letterboxd really summarized the final 30 minutes of the film. It starts with quite a long buildup where Libanese terrorists want a batch of heavy weaponry smuggled into their…

Hexagore

the first hour or so of this is exceedingly generic and then you bear witness to one of the most shockingly insane stunts ever to grace the screen where a five year old girl is held out the window of a speeding car by her hair - they don't make movies like they used to and…

Justin LaLiberty

The thing about Moon Lee movies is that there’s never enough Moon Lee in them. In this one she doesn’t do hardly anything at all, and nothing until the last third of the movie. Instead it’s a generic cop movie about Simon Yam tracking down a ring of arms dealers (the…

Sean Gilman

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. -David Hume Fatal Termination combines a thriller about corruption with totally bonkers action scenes and stunts. The story isn't very complex and pretty straight forward, but takes it's time to get the action…

Dennis

At once an exceedingly familiar HK crime thriller and a sturdy humorlessly-grim example of the form, Fatal Termination is more than its most infamous and insane stunt. Still, that bit of vehicular madness is indeed jaw-droppingly will-never-happen-again-in-cinematic-history…

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