{ "id": "epfjs11vj7", "slug": "high-risk", "title": "High Risk (鼠胆龙威)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure", "label": "Action and adventure films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies", "label": "Action comedies", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies.action-comedies-1970s-to-1990s", "label": "Action comedies, 1970s to 1990s", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies.action-comedies-1970s-to-1990s" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies", "label": "China · 1946 to 2000: Action comedies", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946", "label": "China · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure", "label": "Action and adventure films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies", "label": "Action comedies", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies" } ] } ], "excerpt": "High Risk (鼠膽龍威, Meltdown) is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy directed and written by Wong Jing, starring Jet Li as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for Jacky Cheung's cowardly action star, a Die Hard-style jewel-heist film that satirizes Jackie Chan and grossed HK$11.4 million.", "snippet": "High Risk (鼠膽龍威, Meltdown) is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy directed and written by Wong Jing, starring Jet Li as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for Jacky Cheung's cowardly action star, a Die Hard-style jewel-heist film that satirizes Jackie Chan and grossed HK$11.4 million.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.action-adventure.action-comedies.action-comedies-1970s-to-1990s", "markdown": "# High Risk (鼠胆龙威)\n\n**High Risk** (鼠膽龍威; also released internationally as *Meltdown*) is a 1995 Hong Kong action comedy directed and written by Wong Jing, starring [Jet Li](https://www.edgepedia.org/jet-li) as a former mainland Chinese police officer who becomes bodyguard and secret stunt double for a cowardly action film star, played by [Jacky Cheung](https://www.edgepedia.org/jacky-cheung).[1](https://collections.culture.tw/Object?RNO=MjAwNC4wMjguMjI1MQ%3D%3D&SYSUID=11) • [2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) The film premiered in Hong Kong on 12 July 1995 and is built as a local take on the Hollywood thriller *Die Hard*, wrapped around a satirical portrait of a kung fu superstar widely read as [Jackie Chan](https://www.edgepedia.org/jackie-chan).[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) • [3](https://k.sina.cn/article_7744193593_1cd97043900100yrvv.html?from=ent&subch=film)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title / English titles | 鼠膽龍威; *High Risk*, also released as *Meltdown*[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) • [4](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/meltdown) |\n| Director, writer, producer | Wong Jing (王晶), who wrote, directed, and produced; action direction by Corey Yuen and Yuen Tak[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) • [5](https://fareastfilms.com/review/high-risk/) |\n| Production companies | Wong Jing's Workshop Limited (王晶創作室) and New Peak Film (新峰影業)[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) |\n| Hong Kong premiere | 12 July 1995; runtime 101 minutes[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) |\n| Hong Kong box office | HK$11,403,790, 32nd place for 1995[6](https://kungfutube.info/8579) |\n| Lead cast | Jet Li (Kit Li), Jacky Cheung (Frankie Lone), Chingmy Yau (Helen), Valerie Chow (Fai-Fai), Kelvin Wong (The Doctor)[1](https://collections.culture.tw/Object?RNO=MjAwNC4wMjguMjI1MQ%3D%3D&SYSUID=11) • [4](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/meltdown) |\n| Ratings | Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 57% from 3 reviews; Douban 7.3/10[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/high_risk_1995) • [2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nKit Li (Jet Li) is a mainland Chinese police officer and bomb-disposal expert. During a blackmail case, a judgment error leaves him watching his wife and son burned to death in an explosion; he resigns in grief and disappears, carrying only one clue to the killer's identity, the sound of his voice.[8](https://www.tvmao.com/movie/Zy8qIy4%3D) • [9](https://www.goldensunfilm.com/zh-hant/film/detail/41/)\n\nTwo years later Li works in Hong Kong under the name \"Bold\" as bodyguard and secret stunt double for Frankie Lone (Jacky Cheung), the reigning kung fu superstar. Frankie performs death-defying stunts on screen only because Li takes the falls for him; in person he is vain, cowardly, and mocked by his entourage, including the woman he pursues.[8](https://www.tvmao.com/movie/Zy8qIy4%3D) • [10](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fGcmb4043652) A television reporter, Helen (Chingmy Yau), suspects Frankie's performances are faked and shadows him day and night.[8](https://www.tvmao.com/movie/Zy8qIy4%3D)\n\nFrankie is invited to a large jewelry exhibition at a Hong Kong hotel, where a gang led by a refined villain calling himself the Doctor ([Kelvin Wong](https://www.edgepedia.org/kelvin-wong)) plans to steal the exhibits, planting his assistant as an undercover publicist in the hotel.[8](https://www.tvmao.com/movie/Zy8qIy4%3D) After escorting Frankie to the exhibition, Li hears the Doctor speak on the way home, recognizes the voice of the man who killed his family, and returns to fight the robbers, who take the guests hostage.[8](https://www.tvmao.com/movie/Zy8qIy4%3D) • [11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElRM-W29R4M) The siege structure, with one man fighting thieves through a seized building, is the film's explicit borrowing from *Die Hard*.[5](https://fareastfilms.com/review/high-risk/)\n\n## Production and the Jackie Chan satire\n\nWong Jing, one of Hong Kong's most prolific directors, wrote, directed, and produced the film through his company Wong Jing's Workshop, with New Peak Film as co-producer.[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) The action was choreographed by Corey Yuen and Yuen Tak.[5](https://fareastfilms.com/review/high-risk/)\n\nThe film's most discussed element is not its action but its target. Frankie Lone, played by Jacky Cheung, is a broad parody of Jackie Chan: vain, womanizing, afraid of stunts, and dependent on doubles. The satire extends to his circle, with the character's father portrayed as a compulsive gambler resembling Chan's father, and his manager modeled on Chan's manager Willie Chan.[3](https://k.sina.cn/article_7744193593_1cd97043900100yrvv.html?from=ent&subch=film) One line, in which a director tells Frankie he wrote a similar scene ten years earlier on another set, was read as a jab at Chan's habit of reworking directors' material on set.[3](https://k.sina.cn/article_7744193593_1cd97043900100yrvv.html?from=ent&subch=film) The background was a serious falling-out between Wong Jing and Chan during the making of *City Hunter* in 1993, and a parallel conflict between Chan and director Kirk Wong on *Crime Story* the same year.[3](https://k.sina.cn/article_7744193593_1cd97043900100yrvv.html?from=ent&subch=film) Western reviewers identified the lampoon immediately; the San Francisco Examiner noted that Hong Kong film fans would recognize Frankie as a lampoon of the real action superstar.[12](https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/high-risk-hi-jinks-kicks-martial-arts-to-low-3116200.php)\n\nThe *Die Hard* borrowing was also deliberate and timely. *Die Hard with a Vengeance* opened in Hong Kong on 8 June 1995, one month before *High Risk*, and earned HK$33 million, the year's top foreign film; *High Risk* followed it into cinemas the next month.[6](https://kungfutube.info/8579)\n\n## Release and box office\n\nThe film opened in South Korea on 1 July 1995, in Hong Kong on 12 July, and in Taiwan on 29 July; in Japan it was not released theatrically and reached viewers only on video.[6](https://kungfutube.info/8579) Its Hong Kong gross of HK$11,403,790 placed it 32nd for the year, far behind the Hollywood original it echoed, and it ranked 57th in Taiwan.[6](https://kungfutube.info/8579) A retrospective account of 1995 Hong Kong cinema records the HK$11.4 million figure as Jet Li's worst box-office result of the 1990s, in a year when his collaboration with Wong Jing produced two commercial disappointments.[13](https://post.smzdm.com/p/a3mxe0nk/) The film was also the last collaboration between Wong Jing and Jet Li; the partnership ended without a hit.[6](https://kungfutube.info/8579)\n\n## Reception\n\nCritical response has been mixed. On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 57% Tomatometer from three reviews, with an audience score based on more than 5,000 ratings.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/high_risk_1995) Reviewers have generally praised Jet Li's fight sequences and found the Jackie Chan send-up divisive: one audience review calls the film far from a shallow clone of *Die Hard* when Li is allowed to fight, but judges Wong Jing's relentless parody of Chan childish and out of place.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/high_risk_1995) Far East Films' review rates the film four stars, calling it a *Die Hard* clone that doubles as a Jet Li vehicle and succeeds in both departments, while noting that the cowardly Frankie character grates and that the humor sometimes undercuts the tension.[5](https://fareastfilms.com/review/high-risk/) Chinese-language audiences have been warmer: the film carries a 7.3 on Douban, and Maoyan commenters single out Cheung's comic reversal of the action-hero image, the Doctor's line \"man must depend upon himself,\" and the fight choreography as the film's lasting attractions.[2](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj) • [14](https://baidu.maoyan.com/apollo/movie/1531863/morecomments)\n\nThe film remains in circulation. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and several free ad-supported services, and can be rented or bought digitally; the US release carries an R rating and a 101-minute runtime.[4](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/meltdown)\n\n## References\n\n1. [《鼠膽龍威》電影海報, 國立臺灣歷史博物館典藏網](https://collections.culture.tw/Object?RNO=MjAwNC4wMjguMjI1MQ%3D%3D&SYSUID=11)\n2. [《鼠膽龍威》, 華文影視數據平台 Moviecool](https://moviecool.asia/film/gGSRVTC1OSj)\n3. [1995年王晶为了黑成龙,拍了一部电影,张学友和李连杰主演, 新浪娱乐](https://k.sina.cn/article_7744193593_1cd97043900100yrvv.html?from=ent&subch=film)\n4. [High Risk (1995), JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/meltdown)\n5. [High Risk (1995) Review, Far East Films](https://fareastfilms.com/review/high-risk/)\n6. [ハイリスク／鼠膽龍威（1995）, KUNGFU TUBE](https://kungfutube.info/8579)\n7. [High Risk (1995), Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/high_risk_1995)\n8. [鼠胆龙威剧情介绍, 电视猫](https://www.tvmao.com/movie/Zy8qIy4%3D)\n9. [GS12 鼠膽龍威, Golden Sun Films Distribution](https://www.goldensunfilm.com/zh-hant/film/detail/41/)\n10. [鼠膽龍威, 開眼電影網](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fGcmb4043652)\n11. [【大周看电影】鼠胆龙威, YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElRM-W29R4M)\n12. [\"High Risk\" hi-jinks kicks martial arts to low comedy, San Francisco Examiner via Times Union](https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/high-risk-hi-jinks-kicks-martial-arts-to-low-3116200.php)\n13. [1995香港电影风云（四）, 什么值得买](https://post.smzdm.com/p/a3mxe0nk/)\n14. 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