Hanging by the Fingers: Happens to Rachel twice in the movie, first on the railings on the side of the ambulance during the hijack, then from a bamboo frame during a hanging battle against Michael’s henchwoman.Good is Not Nice: Donnie, who may be a hero (or Anti-Hero if you prefer), but also tends to be a Jerkass who will break rules, beat up witnesses, and commit fraud just to catch his criminal.Donnie, for old time’s sake, simply pulls an American flag nearby over his face. Michael is killed when Rachel and Luk, together, delivers a double kick on Michael which sends him through a glass barricade falling to his death. Designated Girl Fight: Rachel against the blonde henchwoman ( Fairlie Ruth Kordick ), which ends with the latter falling to her death when Rachel’s Save the Villain attempt didn’t quite work.Cold-Blooded Torture: Literally, after being captured alive by the mob, Luk gets interrogated by getting tied up by his neck in a freezer and having his torturer shoving ice into his face to make him spill the truth.Where Donnie immediately puts cuffs on Luk and Rachel, just as Luk’s mother interrupts, at which point Luk tries to have an awkward conversation with his mother while hiding the fact that he’s handcuffed to Rachel. Chained Heat: Luk and Rachel, paying a visit to Luk’s mother, ends up finding out that Donnie is already there waiting for Luk (posing as Luk’s friend) to arrest him.Cue Rachel dashing away from a car explosion. Car Bomb: The mobsters sent by Michael tries to kill Rachel with this weapon, but Rachel’s car is parked on top of a water puddle and she saw a strange red blinking light reflected on the water’s surface.These are quite popular in America." Luk’s mother doesn’t buy it a bit. Blatant Lies: Donnie trying to tell Luk’s mother ( after she discover the handcuffs holding Luk and Rachel together) that "It’s not handcuffs, it’s a love knot.Although in the final fight, only Michael keeps the suit on, while Donnie switched to a more practical jacket instead.
Badass in a Nice Suit: Donnie and Michael.
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Affably Evil: Michael is polite, charming, suave, smiles a lot… and is the Hidden Villain of the movie the whole time.Action Girl: Rachel Yeung, played by Cynthia Khan.Like, you probably couldn't count the number of fight scenes, vehicle chases, high-rise battles, beatdowns, on both hands. However, two Chinese-American investigators - police lieutenant Donnie (played by Donnie Yen) and CIA operative Michael ( Michael Wong) are on the case too, and follows Rachel back to Hong Kong. Inspector Rachel Yeung (Cynthia Khan) finds herself hot on the trails of drug dealers while on assignment in America, leading her back to Hong Kong to a suspect, mild-mannered dock worker Luk Wan-ting (Yuen Yat-chor). Cynthia Khan was in In the Line of Duty III: Force of the Dragon and reprises her role as Rachel Yeung in this movie, making her the only character with a Role Reprise in the series).
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Despite the title, the movie is actually the second installment of the In the Line of Duty series ( In the Line of Duty and In the Line of Duty 2 are the foreign export titles of Yes, Madam and Royal Warriors respectively, without Khan's involvement. In the Line of Duty 4: Witness is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Yuen Woo-Ping, starring Donnie Yen and B-grade action queen/discount Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Khan/Yeung note Her birthname is Cynthia Yeung, but the studios mandated the change to avoid confusion with Michelle Yeoh, whose surname in Chinese is also Yeung.
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