High Risk (1995)
High Risk (released under the alternative title Meltdown in the United States and Super Bodyguard in the Philippines) is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy film written, produced and directed by Wong Jing and starring Jet Li, Jacky Cheung, Chingmy Yau, Charlie Yeung and Yang Chung-hsien. Corey Yuen serves as the film’s fight choreographer. The film is a parody of some of Hollywood’s most influential action films, such as Die Hard and Speed.
Plot:
Kit Li, a cop on the Hong Kong Police bomb squad, responds to a call at a local school, where a terrorist group led by an individual calling himself “The Doctor” has taken a school bus hostage. He soon discovers his wife and son are on board the explosives-rigged bus. The bus eventually explodes, killing everyone inside. Two years later in Hong Kong, Kit has left the force and now serves as a stunt double for martial arts action star Frankie Lone. However, Helen, a tabloid reporter, films one of his stunts and thus discovers Lone’s duplicity, using it to boost her show’s ratings.
Frankie’s father and his manager invite Kit to a jewelry exhibition at a newly opened highrise hotel, but the Doctor also targets the exhibition. At a traffic stop, Kit overhears the Doctor uttering a catchphrase that he used during the school bus bombing, and realizing the Doctor’s identity, he follows the car back to the hotel.
The Doctor and his team take over the building and initiate a massacre. Kit and his partner Chow arrive, only to find themselves ambushed by the Doctor’s gang members in a shootout, during which Chow is injured. Frankie manages to escape and runs into Fai.
