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Black Mask
MEANRANK
58/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 48, highest is Kinopoisk on 69. Critics average 48, everyone else 60.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Super-soldier recruit Tsui Chik is forced to escape with his comrades after the project is canceled. Months later, he's trying to have a quiet life as a librarian with his best friend, Inspector Shek Wai-Ho. However, a string of vicious gangland murders begins that has all the markings of Tsui's former compatriots who seem to have turned to crime. Realizing that the police are helpless, he decides to take them on himself. With a disguise, Tsui becomes the mysterious superhero known only as Black Mask.
Details
- Director
- Daniel Lee
- Writers
- Joe Ma Wai-Ho, Koan Hui, Teddy Chan, Tsui Hark
- Released
- 7 November 1996
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Language
- Cantonese
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.0M
- Box office
- $60.0M
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