Director: Rico Chung.
Writer: Lan Yang.
Cast: Jordan Chan, Yang Mi, Hayama Hiro, Janel Tsai, Maggie Lee, Mini Yang, Shaun Tam, Wong Yau Nam, Tsui Tin Yau, Jessica Xu and Anya.
Not to be confused with other similarly titled products, this latest incarnation of Mysterious Island comes from China and involves the paranormal. Game contestants, as reported by the fictional TV show "Search Planet," are taken to a remote piece of rock on the Binlusai Island chain for a final round of "Survivor." But no one in the group knows about the land’s dark past; it was once the home to a leper colony.
But after the transport gets damaged as they approach land, everyone, including the show hostess Stanley (Jessica Xu) and cameraman Ken (Shaun Tam), have to do more than to fend for themselves.
Greed overcomes the eight people, show creators excluded, who think nothing of their plight.
Writer: Lan Yang.
Cast: Jordan Chan, Yang Mi, Hayama Hiro, Janel Tsai, Maggie Lee, Mini Yang, Shaun Tam, Wong Yau Nam, Tsui Tin Yau, Jessica Xu and Anya.
Not to be confused with other similarly titled products, this latest incarnation of Mysterious Island comes from China and involves the paranormal. Game contestants, as reported by the fictional TV show "Search Planet," are taken to a remote piece of rock on the Binlusai Island chain for a final round of "Survivor." But no one in the group knows about the land’s dark past; it was once the home to a leper colony.
But after the transport gets damaged as they approach land, everyone, including the show hostess Stanley (Jessica Xu) and cameraman Ken (Shaun Tam), have to do more than to fend for themselves.
Greed overcomes the eight people, show creators excluded, who think nothing of their plight.
- 1/4/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
“Mysterious Island” from director Chung Kai Cheung (who worked on “A-1 Headline” with Gordon Chan) is probably best described as a supernaturally themed thriller, though this may be pushing things a bit due to some of the film’s more bewildering elements. Headlined by Hong Kong star Jordan Chan and rising Chinese idol Mini Yang, the film has a supporting cast that includes Hayama Hiro (recently in the awesome “Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy”), Shaun Tam, and Wong Yau Nam and Tsui Tin Yau of Shine fame, with impressive eye candy in the form of Janel Tsai, Maggie Lee, Jessica Xu, and Anya. Perhaps due to films of its type being increasingly rare in Chinese cinema, the film was a huge hit at the Mainland box office, managing to stand proudly alongside high profile summer blockbuster releases like “Wu Xia” and other big budget epics. The flimsy plot follows a...
- 9/4/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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