MY FATHER IS A HERO is a collaboration between director Corey Yuen and star Jet Li that feels virtually identical to one of their previous pictures together, BODYGUARD FROM BEIJING. The two films are interchangeable in terms of look, feel, and fight action, so they'd made a fine double bill for martial arts fans. This one has some touching scenes between Li and Xia Miao, who plays his son. Usually, I don't like kids in action or suspense film; they're invariably whiny, they cry a lot, and they get in the way. Not Miao. He's a tough, ass-kicking boy who takes no crap whether it's from the bullies at his school or the thugs his dad's involved with. Miao's acting is strong and he's definitely the best child actor I've seen in an action film yet.The film ticks all the boxes without really breaking anything in the way of new ground; most Hong Kong crime thrillers of the 1990s were like this, with ultra-cool and slick criminal gangs and plenty of tension when the hero gets involved with them. The family scenes and the touches of romance in this one aren't as out of place as they sometimes can be, and it helps that there's a high calibre of acting talent throughout. The late Anita Mui is particularly good as the tough cop on Li's tail.Li himself is once again excellent, showing off his skills in both the acting stakes and the action parts, and with Corey Yuen at the helm the fights in this are superb. The shoot-out at the shopping mall is great stuff, and of course the majority of the fun is saved for the extended climax. Here, we get Li tackling three top villains on a bomb-laden boat. The bad guys are Rongguang Yu (the sunglasses-wearing, ultra slick chief villain who's one of the slimiest I've seen – he almost drips oil and grease), Collin Chou (who was the main villain in BODYGUARD FROM BEIJING) and Ken Lo (the high-kicking guy who Jackie Chan fought at the end of DRUNKEN MASTER II). The ensuing action is thoroughly entertaining, especially when Li ties his son to the end of a rope and proceeds to use him as a human yo-yo, thwarting the villains by tossing him through the air at them! All in all a lot of fun, as long as you're not expecting a classic.

Somewhere in this movie is a decent action film straining to get out, but it is constrained and held back by the cheesy melodrama and tiresome "human" touches that repeatedly arise.Jet Li is Kung Wei, a cop so undercover even his wife and young son Siu Kiu have no idea what he does.This doesn't seem to matter to them though, as long as Kung Wei shows for Siu Kiu's martial arts demonstrations and puts food on the table no-one seems willing to ask the hard questions.Unfortunately Kung's wife is quite ill – the kind of ill that you don't come back from. Let's just say she isn't buying green bananas. The fact that Kung appears the model husband and son makes it odd that he ignores this fact to follow up on a case that will take him even further undercover.Deep, deep, DEEP undercover.Kung Wei is "imprisoned" to get alongside a known bad guy with links to high crime – when they both bust out they head to Hong Kong where Kung finds what he is after, only initially he seems a little too enamoured with the fast money and high life that goes with the job description.Things complicate further when a local Inspector Fong tracks down Kung's wife and son on the mainland and starts piecing the puzzle together… ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Enough of all that drama – this is a Jet Li action flick right? Well yes and no. There is action but not enough for an action fan, and when the climax finally arrives it is too reliant on explosives and the kung fu standard is not nearly as good as half a dozen other Jet Li flicks.The plot is too convoluted and made little sense, the fact that his doting dying wife still believed he was a criminal – and that Kung Wei made no attempt to explain otherwise – made no sense to this little black duck, especially when everyone else seemed to know including his kid.To recap, drama without any real drama, action without substance and major character decisions without credibility. To top all this off my DVD copy (which shares the same cover as the poster here and the IMDb film page so I think it's real) has some of the cheesiest subtitles in cinematic history. The kind that you can sorta follow, but at the same time can't help but laugh at.Final Rating – 5 / 10. A couple of brief fights are worth watching, but unfortunately the other 100 odd minutes are largely to be endured. I've seen a great many Jet Li flicks this one doesn't crack his top 8.

(Sorry, a few spoilers here!)The Enforcer is a surprisingly great movie, esp. by Hong Kong standards. It deals with Jet Li being a deep undercover police-man from Beijing, who despite a sick wife and a son that needs him keeps being sent on long undercover missions. Here, he's sent to Hong Kong to infiltrate a crime syndicate. While helping them, he is caught on a photo by the Hong Kong police who doesn't know him, and Anita Mui, a highly placed Hong Kong police lieutenant, goes to Beijing to find out who he is. She finds his wife and son, and realizes that the crook she came to find may not in fact be a crook. Soon, the wife gets sicker, and eventually dies. The lieutenant then takes care of the son, and they go to Hong Kong to find the undercover cop. That's just half the movie. The other half involves the kid being in danger and even being beaten by his dad because the father has to act coldblooded in front of the mafia guys. Then there's some very good chemistry between Jet Li and Anita Mui's characters, and the final battle with the bad guys is good and rewarding.All in all, this movie is told incredibly well, and everything in it rings true and is very, very moving. Great story, very good acting, lots of cool kung fu (also from surprisingly supple Anita Mui!), *and* lots of great action scenes in general. Never a dull moment.The only thing wrong with the movie is that we're never really told who Jet Li's character really is. We know he's a good guy, and that he works for a police chief, but this chief denies knowing him as anything other than a crook, even when the Hong Kong police lieutenant shows up to inquire about him. But this is a minor thing that I am more than willing to ignore. This is a very satisfying movie in all ways.9 out of 10.

This is one of my all time favourite Jet Li films, and I've seen all but 4 of them (that have been released anyways). I thought the plot was VERY good and the acting was top notch too. The fight scenes were very good and well...it was just amazing. Most importantly, an incredible rarity, it didn't have a kid who annoyed the hell out of me! Quite an impressive feat.