About this episode

The episode reviews Jackie Chan's 2025 thriller 'The Shadows Edge', highlighting its strengths and weaknesses in the spy genre.

Jackie Chan’s 2025 thriller, The Shadows Edge brings our hero firmly into the world of spy vs spy counter espionage genre facing off against the masterful Tony Leung Ka-Fai. Not without its flaws, with incomprehensible 1 second smash cuts, pacing and bloat, what shines though is a genuinely tense mental chess game with real stakes. With an actor (Ci Sha) so handsome he had to be more than one character, his resemblance had us wondering if he was related to Takeshi Kaneshiro! This has tons of style, some real heart and a good dose of adrenaline - check it out!

People in this episode

Host: Asian Action Cast

Topics covered

• spy genre
• thriller
• film review
• Jackie Chan
• counter espionage
• action

Keywords

• Jackie Chan
• Tony Leung Ka-Fai
• The Shadows Edge
• thriller
• film review
• action
• espionage

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Books & works: The Shadows Edge

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