High Risk

After his terrific period-martial arts drama FIST OF LEGEND (1994), Hong Kong star Jet Li takes a step down with this contemporary action film.

Li plays police lieutenant Kit Li, whose wife and son are killed by a bomb set by the Doctor, a criminal mastermind who calls Li by cellular phone during the incident. Two years later, Li has left the force to become the surreptitious stunt double for a popular but basically incompetent martial arts movie star named Frankie Long (Jackie Cheung), whom a reporter (Chingmy Yau) is trying to expose. Long and the reporter are among the attendees at a party in a hi-tech penthouse where a display of priceless diamonds is being ...