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‘The Prosecutor’ Review: Donnie Yen’s Action-Infused Legal Drama Is A Slickly Polished Slice Of Mainstream Entertainment
Read Deadline's review of Donnie Yen action thriller The Prosecutor
The script, from regular Ip Man scribe Edmond Wong, is a courtroom drama first and foremost, built around Yen’s newly qualified prosecutor, Fok Chi Ho. In this regard, Yen proves competent, if far from revelatory, and always more comfortable raising his fists rather than a point of order, but he wisely surrounds himself with a roster of gregarious character players willing and able to elevate the material. At the film’s climax, Fok inevitably does take things outside, laying down a measure of street justice on the real criminals, in an admittedly impressive final scuffle aboard a packed subway train, but it may well be a case of too little too late for Yen’s long-standing kung-fu congregation.
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