The Shadow's Edge

Jackie Chan's coolest film in years, it's kinda incredible that he's still making an action movie at the age of 71 while also giving some of the younger actors here plenty of moments to shine. His team is on fire, crafting some tense action setpieces, that are slightly weighed down by some unnecessarily flashy editing at times. But what surprised me even more was Tony Leung Ka-fai, not his performance because I never doubted how well he can play a menacing and layered villain, but how much he shines in his action scenes, particularly the knife fight in at the end of the second act being jaw-dropping. While yes this is a Chinese iQiYi production, it harkens back to the Hong Kong action movies I love which had a rich melodramatic component to them that feels lost in the 21st century as HK productions fell dramatically, with only a few gems popping up here and there.