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Warriors of Future

A meteorite brings an extraterrestrial life to the earth. When powerful alien creatures threaten humanity, Commander Sing Lee's elite forces are almost wiped out, and the surviving soldier T... Read all A meteorite brings an extraterrestrial life to the earth. When powerful alien creatures threaten humanity, Commander Sing Lee's elite forces are almost wiped out, and the surviving soldier Tai Loi discovers an even bigger conspiracy. A meteorite brings an extraterrestrial life to the earth. When powerful alien creatures threaten humanity, Commander Sing Lee's elite forces are almost wiped out, and the surviving soldier Tai Loi discovers an even bigger conspiracy.

Yuen Fai Ng
Ho-Leung Lau
Chi-Leung Law
Tin Shu Mak
Ching Wan Lau
60 User reviews
37 Critic reviews
6 wins & 14 nominations

Top cast 28

Cheng Chung-Sang

Aviation technician
(as Pansy Chan)
ACU soldier
Pan Pan (AKA Pansy)

Weather correspondent

Biliard player

Johnson Cheng

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Trivia Hong Kong's highest grossing local film as of 17/11/22
Goofs The soldier's battle suits display an energy level in the helmet screen. Each action depleting some of the suits' energy level. While performing actions to retrieve a canister, the energy level goes from 70 to 64, but is back up to 70 in the next shot.
Alternate versions Original version submitted and passed by the Hong Kong Office for Film, Newspaper and Article Administration in 2021 runs 112-minute, rated IIB. However, when the film passed the film bureau of mainland China in 2022, the film was altered and cut down to 99-minute, which became the only version allowed to release everywhere.
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Pacing too fast, camera angles constantly pointlessly changing.

Dec 4, 2022
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Production since 12 February 2017?! why so long?
August 25, 2022 (Hong Kong)
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$45,000,000 (estimated)
$10,490,328
Runtime 1 hour 52 minutes
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital
IMAX 6-Track

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Warriors of Future Reviews

Warriors of Future is an enjoyable, if middle-of-the-road sci-fi action flick. If you are looking for something from the genre...this succeeds enough to make it worth the time investment...

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 4, 2023

It's a pretty crazy movie, but at the same time, a lot of it doesn't seem that far removed from Michael Bay and James Cameron epics.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 3, 2023

While not one for audiences looking for anything sensible or with substance, as an action-packed, cheerfully foolish crowd-pleaser it’s hard to fault Ng Yuen-fai’s debut, not least since the special effects impress way above and beyond

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2022

Beyond all of the crashing tech and admittedly impressive creature effects, we’re left with actors like Phillip Keung, Carina Lau, and Louis Koo to make what they can out of a threadbare script.

Full Review | Dec 7, 2022

There’s modest pleasure to be had from reveling in its sheer excessiveness.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2022

An ambitious spectacle that deserves respect for its intention. Its execution is an entirely different matter.

[Blessed with] with a fast-paced rhythm and most of all, a better-than-expected technical showcase in special effects and action set pieces.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 2, 2022

Many of the fantasy action elements are fun to watch, even if they are plucked from significantly better sci-fi movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2022

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Violence, peril in frenzied dystopian sci-fi adventure.

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Sci-fi action violence throughout. Fighting with giant robots, plant monsters, s

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Parents need to know that Warriors of Future is a 2022 Chinese sci-fi movie in which a group of ragtag soldiers must save the world from monstrous plants that landed from a meteor. Expect a fair amount of sci-fi action violence. There's fighting with robots, lasers, missile launchers, rifles, and guns; implied suicide; and monster imagery: The plants are somewhat reminiscent of the plant monsters from I nvasion of the Body Snatchers . It's a dystopian sci-fi film in which the world teeters on the brink of total environmental catastrophe. Mild infrequent language includes "hell."

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Sci-fi action violence throughout. Fighting with giant robots, plant monsters, spaceships, lasers. Fighting with missile launchers, guns, rifles. Implied suicide.

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What's the Story?

In WARRIORS OF FUTURE, Earth is on the verge of total environmental collapse. Wars between robots have added to the chaos, and the only thing saving humanity from extinction are giant biodomes known as Sky-Nets. As if that isn't enough, a giant meteor has fallen to Earth that carries Pandora, a plant creature that has grown to dangerous proportions after drinking water. However, scientists have also discovered that Pandora has the potential to clean the polluted air -- provided that a virus is injected into its pistil. The mission is given to Sean Li (Nick Cheung) and his ragtag gang of renegade soldiers and pilots. Sean and his crew soon find that taking on Pandora might be more than they bargained for, but they must find a way to defeat it and save humanity.

Is It Any Good?

This is a bombastic sci-fi whose excesses would make big-budget Hollywood directors blush. Warriors of Future is the highest-grossing Chinese-language movie in Hong Kong, and it's not difficult to see why. It's a frenzy of CGI battles, blockbuster movie heroes ... and a killer plant. It's a pretty crazy movie, but at the same time, a lot of it doesn't seem that far removed from Michael Bay and James Cameron epics.

It isn't the easiest movie to follow. There's a whole lot of exposition at the beginning, more than what's needed. There are some plot twists, but they're not exactly surprising. The characters are basically stock action movie heroes and villains, and therefore none of them really inspire the audience to root for them. The most inspired part of the movie is this idea of an invasive plant from outer space that can both destroy and rescue humanity, but that part of the story is likely to be lost in the cacophony of lasers, missile launchers, spaceship crashes, and more. The excess ultimately proves to be the movie's undoing.

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Movie Details

On DVD or streaming : December 2, 2022
Cast : Louis Koo , Ching Lau Wau , Carina Lau
Director : Yuen Fai Ng
Inclusion Information : Asian actors, Female actors
Studio : Netflix
Genre : Science Fiction
Run time : 112 minutes
MPAA rating : NR
Last updated : February 17, 2023

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