Do you want to see ‘Black Mask’?

Black Mask (1997)

tomatometer

All Critics
Top Critics

Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 14

Stylish setting and masterfully choreographed fight scenes, but the story is low on credibility and high on excessive violence and gore.

No Score Yet...

Average Rating: N/A
Critic Reviews: 1
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 1

Stylish setting and masterfully choreographed fight scenes, but the story is low on credibility and high on excessive violence and gore.

audience

liked it
Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 21,609

My Rating

Added to your Facebook Timeline. — undo

Movie Info

Martial arts star Jet Li donned a black hat and mask to portray a comic book superhero in this pulp action tale that gets the full-blown Hong Kong treatment from choreographer Yuen Wo Ping, who later designed the fight scenes for The Matrix (1999). Li stars as Tsui Chik, leader of Squad 701, an elite commando team of genetically-engineered super-soldiers. When the unit was deemed a failure because of mental instability in some of the test subjects, the project was disbanded. Tsui now lives

R, 1 hr. 36 min.

Art House & International, Action & Adventure

Directed By: Daniel Lee

Written By: Teddy Chen, Koan Hui, Joe Ma, Hark Tsui

On DVD: Nov 30, 1999

Artisan Entertainment

Black Mask Trailer & Photos

Cast

Jet Li
Tsui Chik
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
King Kau
Karen Mok
Tracy
Patrick Lung Kang
Commander Hung
Ching Wan Lau
Inspector Shek
Francoise Yip
Yuek=Ian

Critic Reviews for Black Mask

All Critics (40) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (15) | DVD (15)

Jet Li is freakin' unstoppable!

March 11, 2006 Comment

Clint Morris

Moviehole

They needed to think this one through a little more before commiting it to film.

January 12, 2003 Comment

Rob Vaux

Flipside Movie Emporium

You could watch it on mute and still be blown away by the action bits.

July 25, 2002 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

...an above-average entry in the field, thanks to its flashy camera work and attractive star. Non-fans of martial arts films need not even apply.

April 16, 2002 Comment

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

More Critic Reviews

Audience Reviews for Black Mask

View All

The storyline may not always be sterling in a Jet Li movie, but one thing you can say for sure: Once Jet Li starts rocking in his purist martial arts action, there are few more stunning practitioners. See this maybe a whole lot less for the story than to see Li when he starts to roll. What a butt-kickingly superior martial arts stylist.

April 19, 2011

Lanning : )

Super Reviewer

This is such a weird movie and I've seen my fair share of weird movies before. Maybe it's the combination of stylized action, gore, british dubbing and 80s feel to it. I really wasn't expecting it to be what it was. Jet Li looks like Kato from the Green Hornet and more or less is the character. There's really nothing

August 12, 2010