Dreaming the Reality

1991 [CN]

Action

4
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 218 218

martial arts

Director

Chun-Ku Lu Photo
Chun-Ku Lu

Top cast

Moon Lee Photo
Moon Lee as Silver Fox
Yukari Ôshima Photo
Yukari Ôshima as Black Cat
James Ben Photo
James Ben as
Mark Houghton Photo
Mark Houghton as Kick-Boxer
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964.85 MB
1280*720
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 5
1.75 GB
1920*1080
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 16

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by coltras35 6 / 10

Dreaming the reality

An expert assassin - trained since childhood to be the perfect killer - loses her memory during a mission in Thailand, and ends up in the care of a wry ex-policewoman and her boxing cohort. The equally lethal sister of the assassin pursues her, uncertain of her intentions and whether to kill her.A great comedic boxing drama and a badass female assassin noir in one and it makes an ok concoction, though Sibelle Hu has a penchant of smoking and fighting. There's some good action, and choreography, though it can be a bit too gory, a little more than the other gun and gals genre films I have seen. It's a distracting enough and as always Moon Lee as the guilt-ridden assassin who loses her memory and Yukari Oshima as her sister -a much colder character - are great. Eddy Ko is effective as the domineering and criminal uncle of the assassins. What a gung-ho finale!
Reviewed by The_Phantom_Projectionist 6 / 10

"Foreigner, you're finished!"

The 1980s "girls with guns" films from Hong Kong can be pretty hit-or-miss for viewers who aren't particular fans of that subgenre, but I'm happy to say that DREAMING THE REALITY is a general hit. Imperfect though it may be, it makes the most of its cast and features an accessible, surprisingly dramatic and funny storyline. Action heroines Moon Lee, Sibelle Hu, and Yukari Oshima have made movies together before, but this one's the best of their team-ups that I've seen.The story: An expert assassin (Lee) - trained since childhood to be the perfect killer - loses her memory during a mission in Thailand, and ends up in the care of a wry ex-policewoman (Hu) and her boxing cohort (Ben Lam). The equally lethal sister of the assassin (Oshima) pursues her, uncertain of her intentions and whether to kill her.Like many movies of this era, it takes a while to warm up: though it opens with the humorously macabre scene of the assassins as children practicing marksmanship and blowing away a (toy) bunny, it's not until the film's second half that the drama, comedy, and action portions reach their zenith. An early action highlight includes a surprisingly lengthy and well-balanced boxing match between Ben Lam and an uncredited opponent, but the two standout scenes include an effectively emotional exchange between Moon and Yukari and a lengthy shootout that John Woo would have been proud of, featuring the heroines going through a number of different weapons and causing a ton of explosions. Lee and Oshima do good with most everything they attempt, but while Sibelle does well while holding a shotgun and a baseball bat, her single one-on-one fight sees her being doubled a lot.Hu shines more evenly as the dramatic force of the picture: her role as the cigarette-smoking big sister is my favorite of her career so far, and she's responsible for about half of the humor in the film. Ben Lam is a little colorless, but while Oshima and Lee are merely passable on their own, they display a surprising dramatic chemistry in the scenes they share, including the aforementioned fight scene. The writers of the film - Lee Ho and Tony Liu - deserve at least some of the credit for this, though they couldn't resist inserting some weirdness into some portions of the picture, like when our heroes inexplicably decide to bury two of their fallen comrades in the woods instead of giving them a proper burial. Nevertheless, the movie's still more dramatically accessible than many a lesser-known Hong Kong action flick - at least enough so for me to enjoy it.These aren't the most enthusiastic four stars I've ever awarded, but DREAMING THE REALITY certainly does enough things right to qualify for its score. As of this writing, it's ridiculously expensive to get a hold of, but I encourage you to try and watch it at a more reasonable cost if you can. You can definitely do worse for any of the stars involved!
Reviewed by simonize-1 5 / 10

A trio of deadly China dolls is the reason to see this HK actioner

A trio of deadly China dolls is the reason to see this HK actioner DREAMING THE REALITY (1991). SIBELLE HU joins forces with MOON LEE to take revenge; both have lost the person closest to them, and the villain of the piece is FOK (the late EDDY KO is appropriately slimy and despicable). MOON LEE and YUKARI OSHIMA have been trained as assassins by their adoptive father FOK. The pre-credits sequence details their training at a very early age, and clearly differentiates the personalities of the two girls/women; the vicious nature of their foster brother and the ruthlessness of their mentor FOK.There is a lengthy section of the film that takes place in Thailand, where a would be boxer and his sister run foul of a cruel and manipulative promoter. Of course, the two female assassins are then assigned a mission in Thailand, where of course, the two very different pairs of siblings are fated to meet.There is the usual non-stop action, well choreographed but preposterous; the needless mayhem and senseless elimination of all the minor and some of the major characters; some interesting location shooting, and of course, the appeal of seeing the three women do their thing - something they do often and wellThough I was pleased that this film was broadcast locally on a Vancouver multi-cultural station, I am prone to dismiss this film as one that I would watch once, and no more.
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