The sexagenarian Donnie Yen delivered another movie he directed and starred in. Sakra (2023), his last outing, was a fun, wuxia-styled film that lost steam in the third act. Will The Prosecutor be different? The premise is interesting. An action cop leaves the institution and starts learning law to become a prosecutor.

The weak part of this action-law movie was, in fact, the courtroom scenes. The script did the audience a disservice by not explaining how the HKSAR court system works…

What is the most demanding movie genre to make? I am one of the people who put our bets on comedy.

It is ironic that many do not realize that making people laugh is a serious business that requires intelligence and impeccable timing. I was never amused when writers came up with ill-fated lines, and actors delivered them in a ridiculously goofy manner.

Fortunately, watered-down dialogue was rare in this movie. I was so relieved to hear vernacular familiar to…