Cast Member: Jiang Luxia

At times, the film will have you slipping into a catatonic state and you’ll just be praying for the next bit of action to come along.

While Jiang Lu-Xia is definitely a talent for the future the film itself barely seems to register on the excitement scale.

Big of budget and large in scope, ‘Double World’ starts out promising and begins to build to something rather exciting before petering off in the final third when it can’t quite keep up its momentum.

Herman Yau’s conclusion to the story deserves its place among its contemporaries. And any film with Anthony Wong giving his all is well worth adding to your collection.

The master stroke is of course the incorporation of Yuen Woo Ping as fight choreographer and he serves up some of the best fisticuffs of recent years.

It’s big, it’s brash and in several sequences surprisingly gory but ‘Operation Red Sea’ is big screen, blockbusting action done well.

Action fans in particular will find much to appreciate here, especially the chance to see the Drunken style so excellently represented on screen.