The ambo angle is, of course, Red Line’s nutty big draw. The whole preposterous thing is sort of like Initial D meets the ambo portion of TV’s Chicago Fire meets an instant-noodle social-divide coupling cooked up in five minutes.įor good measure, writer Kuo also pops up as a veteran car guru named Chieh who gets offed early in the show but comes back in flashbacks to impart burnt-rubber wisdom about the sacred rules of racing to his younger hothead-gearhead crew called the Blue Colts who are seeking payback.Ĭhieh, the big brother of Le, is pushed down a cliff in his car by a mysterious driver who tailgates him menacingly on a winding mountain road like a James Bond assassin.īy the way, both real bros here - director Ko and writer Kuo (don’t ask me why their surnames are spelt differently) - are sons of the late Taiwanese movie stunt-car legend, Blackie Ko. Exactly who owns it? The hospital? The government? Le’s car chop shop? Formula One’s ambulance committee? But, bizarrely, her professional obligations do not straightaway compel her to ban her boyfriend from any ambulance and worse, act as a paramedic with no qualification or training at all.Įven more absurd, the fella drives the ambo around as if it’s his own personal vehicle. The doc cautions Le about killing patients instead of saving them with his fast driving. Me? My insulted inner Ah Beng would’ve told me to walk away right there. “People with no class have bad luck,” she tells him. Somehow the good gal, who’s organised and by-the-book, takes a liking to the bad boy, impulsive and untamed, while putting him down in an opposites-attract way that can only happen in an un-rigorous Taiwanese drama. These two dissimilar plot routes don’t ensure a smooth convergence. The movie starts off with road racing and then veers completely off-course in a different direction with a sappy, aw-shucks love deal between Le, the low SES fella, and a tidy doctor, Hui (S.H.E.’s Ella Chen). Which could be where actor Alan Kuo ( Din Tao: Leader Of The Parade) co-scripted this barmy romance - not fuel - charged turbo tale for his younger brother, Jacky Ko, to direct as his first pic here. This story looks like a gimmick conceived atop a car hood. “I don’t have to stop at red lights, super cool,” he reasons. He’s a street racer who suddenly wants to do good after he emergency-drives a pregnant woman to a hospital in a car, experiences an epiphany and decides to become an ambulance driver. The main dude here, Wang Le (rapper E.so in his film debut), is a speed punk who races in - get this - an ambulance. ![]() But plot-wise, compared to those crazy Fast & Furious flicks, this Taiwanese car racing pic actually looks even more bonkers.Īt least the people in F&F drive cars. ![]() ![]() Red Line opens two weeks after Fast X, presumably hoping to catch some box-office slipstream. Starring E.so, Ella Chen, Alan Kuo, Andy Lau, Karena Lam
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