After Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple" became popular across the Mainland, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, for a long time, Hong Kong directors tried to create another Jet Li, so they found many mainland martial arts actors to star in Hong Kong movies, such as Xu Xiangdong, Yu Rongguang, Dong Zhihua, Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Jing, etc., these mainland kung fu masters, have made Hong Kong-produced action movies, but among these people, who has the closest achievement in Hong Kong movies to Jet Li, then undoubtedly belongs to Zhao Wenzhuo.
Yu Rongguang played more villains in Hong Kong movies.
Zhao Wenzhuo made a series of Hong Kong movies that now seem very classic in the mid to late 1990s. It was just that his luck was a little bit worse and the box office was not good, which caused him to never become popular. Here we take the scores of the foreign film website IMDb as the basis to take a look at the ranking of Zhao Wenzhuo’s Hong Kong films in the minds of foreign netizens.
first place: "Fang Shiyu" 7.3 points
This movie can become a classic action film, Zhao Wenzhuo contributed a lot, his stunning degree in the film is not inferior to Jet Li, this kind of handsome, high skill, poisonous methods The villain is quite rare in Hong Kong films. This film is Zhao Wenzhuo's first screen work. The Nine-door Admiral is also the only villain in his film and television career.
Second place: "Green Snake" 7.2 points
The film has a very high rating on the mainland film platform, and it is the highest rated film in the works of director Tsui Hark. It is said that Chen Kaige’s next work may be "White Snake". The works of Chen Kaige and Tsui Hark in recent years are not very popular among movie fans, but the two directors are very aesthetically high-end, "Green Snake" and "White Snake" may Can become the twin peaks of Chinese fantasy movies. Foreign movie fans have a general evaluation of "Green Snake", maybe they can't understand Chinese classical culture.
Third place: "The Knife" 7.1 points
The film lost terribly at the Hong Kong box office that year, and ranked 60th on the Hong Kong box office chart in 1995. In this year, Jet Li's movies also began to decline. The new work "A Letter to Dad" "It also fell out of the top ten Hong Kong films of the year. The opening part of "The Knife" is very local, not like a martial arts movie at all, but the final action design of the film is very public.
4th place: "Man and Han Banquet" 6.9 points
From this movie, you can see how much Tsui Hark loved Zhao Wenzhuo, a modern comedy starring Leslie Cheung and Anita Yuen, and Zhao Wenzhuo also played a decent supporting role. There are too many wonderful places in this movie, and Zhao Wenzhuo doesn't have many opportunities for performance except for his handsome fashion appearance.
Fifth place: "Sparrow Flying Dragon" 6.7 points
This film was produced in 1997. At that time Tsui Hark had already gone to Hollywood to develop. The director of "Fang Shiyu" Yuan Kui and the director of "Westward Journey" Liu Zhenwei filmed this film. There is no gambling show, the film has many interesting little details. Zhao Wenzhuo has a lot of literary dramas, which are not very good. It is still his martial arts drama that shines.
Sixth place: "Once Upon a Time in the Dragon City Fighting Overlord" 6.1 points, seventh place: "Once Upon a Time in the Wind of Kings" 6.0 points
These two Wong Feihong movies, the story is the succession of Jet Li's "Lion King", " "Wind of the King" came first, and "Dragon City Fighting Overlord" came in the back. The style is also the same as Jet Li's version. However, at that time, Hong Kong audiences were either aesthetically tired of this series or didn't buy Zhao Wenzhuo's account. The two box offices were far inferior to Jet Li and Jet Li. Later, he filmed a "Lion of the Western Regions" and sold it again, which almost declared that Zhao Wenzhuo was inferior to Jet Li.
8th place: "Life and Death" 5.7 points
Although this work has nothing to do with Jet Li, it is also a work that highly imitates Jet Li's movies. Zhao Wenzhuo is a senior security guard (compare "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard"). The plot is A group of militants held a bunch of hostages in a closed space (compare "Die Hard"), but "Life and Death" was made more hastily, more like a TV movie, not produced by Jet Li's two movies Exquisite.
