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High Forces (2024)
Directed by Oxide Pang Chun
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“Anyone? There is ......” A mysterious message from Gao Haojun comes from ten thousand meters in the air. A five-star A380 ultra-luxury airliner was hijacked on its international maiden voyage, and international security expert Gao Haojun stood up to a group of thugs, his daughter Xiaojun was trapped in the cabin, and Mike, the leader of the hijackers, threatened the lives of more than 800 people in the plane as a bargaining chip, and Xiaojun’s mother, Fu Yuan, was also in danger. ...... Will the passengers on board be able to land safely and how should this crisis be resolved?
Length 115 minutes
Actors
Andy Lau | Zhang Zifeng | Qu Chuxiao | Liu Tao | Guo Xiaodong | Jiang Mengjie | David Wang | Jiang Chao | Wang Longzheng | Zhang Yang | Zhang Yao | Eric Chou | Bai Ge | Gao Shu-Guang | Li Bin | Liu Zhibing | Zheng Zhongyu | Zhang Zeyang | Zhang Zihao | Ni Kexin | Jingshuyu Zhao | Zhang Xinkai | Lu Jiahui | Dou Guiyu | Li Zhenyu | Cheng Tao | Jiang Shan | Yu Jie Ping | Bowen Wang | Liu Xuefan | Liu Ningxi | 马瑶瑶 | Feng Siqi | Zheng Yi | Zhang Yining | Li Jiaxin | Liu Wantong | Bei Yin | Wang Yiwen | Qihang Zhao | Hao Yiyuan | Zeng Wen Shuo | Junyu Sheng | Hua Tong | Li Kui | Ning Xiaohua | Zhong Lei | Zhang Zheng | Waner Zhang | Ma Dongyan | Pang Yuchen | Ma Long | Li Yu | Ma Chen | Zhan Yatong | Yanqing Sun | Liu Zixian | Sun Lishi | Yan Peng | Zhang Hao
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/11/2025 | TV | Streaming | Rented | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Give a lot of props to Oxide & Co for taking a retread premise and going really hard with it. This is Andy Lau’s TAKEN* on a plane… or whatever else Liam Neeson movie since this is what he’s doing. Granted HK was doing the Neeson thing long before TAKEN but now that’s it’s returned to China it feels like they’re aping Hollywood recently, playing it safe.
This is fun bc it feels like that dangerous HK film of yore but in a glossy wrapper. I’m not a fan of plane thrillers but this one manages to escalate in a way that kept me riveted. Mad respect to Lau (and his personal trainer) for still kicking ass and being in total action hero mode.
It was a 99 cent rental on Apple TV and this Chinese film account I follow kept promoting it leading up to Lau’s new movie A Gilded Game released this past weekend. Figured it was worth a buck to watch it and yep! If this gets a release here from Well Go** I would buy it and bring it to movie night. This is like the opposite of Andy Lau’s SWITCH. Hahaha
Btw that TMDb description reads like it was translated from a Chinese website. lol
* just joking; we all know it’s DIE HARD on a plane, which it totally is, like exactly that.
** Bayview released it domestically, which stinks bc their prices are always very high ($25+) for BD titles
3 hours ago
*** I ordered the Chinese Blu-ray from Turkey for 12$ so we’ll see if it has subtitles and looks good
(not really Turkey but I think HK/China sellers are trying to find ways to get around the tariff issue. at the moment they have to mark up the shipping to extreme levels ~$25USD per disc)