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''Bury Me High'' is technically director Tsui's second adaptation of a Wisely story, although the first one, 1987's ''Mirage'' starring Creator/YuRongGuang, ended up being a DivorcedInstallment without the Wisely character. Meanwhile Moon and Sibelle will would collaborate once again in their next film, ''Film/DreamingTheReality''.
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Wisely is now in America, where he's hired by a rich traveler to investigate the sepulchral veneration of his home's Feng Shui center in the South-East Asian country of Carrinan, in order to secure the continuous wealth and fortune for his family's future generations. Accepting the assignment due to his interest in Feng Shui, Wisely travels to Carrinan with his partner, Professor Chang (Tsui Siu-ming, also director) and a reporter, Anna Wong (Moon). But upon arrival in Carrinan, Wisely and gang discovers the Feng Shui cardinal point of the country has been hijacked, by local dictator and warlord General Ngyuen, who is using the local Feng Shui to ensure he maintains an iron grip on the nation.
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Wisely is now in America, where he's hired by a rich traveler to investigate the sepulchral veneration of his home's Feng Shui center in the South-East Asian country of Carrinan, in order to secure the continuous wealth and fortune for his family's future generations. Accepting the assignment due to his interest in Feng Shui, Wisely travels to Carrinan with his partner, Professor Chang (Tsui Siu-ming, also director) and a reporter, Anna Wong (Moon). But upon arrival in Carrinan, Wisely and gang discovers the Feng Shui cardinal point of the country has been hijacked, hijacked by local the dictator and warlord General Ngyuen, who is using the local Feng Shui to ensure he maintains an iron grip on the nation.
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In case you're confused by all that Feng Shui mumbo-jumbo stuff, let's just say that's just the movie's attempt to use a complicated theme as backdrop for its plot, when in actuality the entire movie is pretty much like every action film about a BadassCrew of heroes assisting an oppressed nation overthrow a dictator's military regime, not unlike ''Film/DogsOfWar'' or ''Film/TheWildGeese'', but with more kung fu, feng shui, and supernatural elements thrown in. It's... actually more fun than it sounds. [[note]] I mean, the final battle has tanks! Friggin' tanks! And exploding helicopters! And exploding cliffs! And exploding towers and bunkers! And... okay, I'll stop. [[/note]]
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In case you're confused by all that Feng Shui mumbo-jumbo stuff, let's just say that's just the movie's attempt to use a complicated theme as backdrop for its plot, when in actuality the entire movie is pretty much like every action film about a BadassCrew of heroes assisting an oppressed nation overthrow a dictator's military regime, not unlike ''Film/DogsOfWar'' ''Film/TheDogsOfWar'' or ''Film/TheWildGeese'', but with more kung fu, feng shui, and supernatural elements thrown in. It's... actually more fun than it sounds. [[note]] I mean, the final battle has tanks! Friggin' tanks! And exploding helicopters! And exploding cliffs! And exploding towers and bunkers! And... okay, I'll stop. [[/note]]
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* StuffBlowingUp: Helicopters, tanks, ammunition piles, bunkers, guard towers... there's plenty of stuff to blow up in the final battle, thanks to the movie's larger-than-usual bidget budget being allocated for the final action scene.
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* ProductPlacement: The Carrinan rebellion is supported by Pepsi, Coca-cola and [=MacDonalds=]! The favourite foor of the local LaResistance!
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* UnkemptBeauty: Anna in the final fight, after getting smashed through furniture, thrown into walls and beaten up badly by General Ruan.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative The best action movie about Feng Shui ever made]]. ]]
Bury Me High is a 1991 action movie directed by Tsui Siu-ming, and is one of the many spin-off action movies involving Hong Kong pulp novel character, Wisely Wei after ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'' made the character famous. Starring Chin Kar-lok as Wisely, alongside Creator/SibelleHu making a comeback with Creator/MoonLee added to the cast, the movie continues the adventure of Wisely where ''Seventh Curse'' left off previously.
Wisely is now in America, where he's hired by a rich traveler to investigate the sepulchral veneration of his home's Feng Shui center in the South-East Asian country of Carrinan, in order to secure the continuous wealth and fortune for his family's future generations. Accepting the assignment due to his interest in Feng Shui, Wisely travels to Carrinan with his partner, Professor Chang (Tsui Siu-ming, also director) and a reporter, Anna Wong (Moon). But upon arrival in Carrinan, Wisely and gang discovers the Feng Shui cardinal point of the country has been hijacked, by local dictator and warlord General Ngyuen, who is using the local Feng Shui to ensure he maintains an iron grip on the nation.
In case you're confused by all that Feng Shui mumbo-jumbo stuff, let's just say that's just the movie's attempt to use a complicated theme as backdrop for its plot, when in actuality the entire movie is pretty much like every action film about a BadassCrew of heroes assisting an oppressed nation overthrow a dictator's military regime, not unlike ''Film/DogsOfWar'' or ''Film/TheWildGeese'', but with more kung fu, feng shui, and supernatural elements thrown in. It's... actually more fun than it sounds. [[note]] I mean, the final battle has tanks! Friggin' tanks! And exploding helicopters! And exploding cliffs! And exploding towers and bunkers! And... okay, I'll stop. [[/note]]
Moon and Sibelle will collaborate once again in their next film, ''Film/DreamingTheReality''.
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!!Bury Me High, but Shallow enough to Trope...
* {{Acrofatic}}: Professor Chang may be played by the tubby Tsui Siu-Ming, but he can execute some impressive moves and kick ass with roughly the same expertise as Wisely, Anna or Ngyuen.
* ActionGirl: Moon Lee's Anna and Sibelle Hu's Ngyuen. Both of them aren't on the same side, until Ngyuen's eventual HeelFaceTurn.
* BadassBookworm: Professor Chang may be a Feng Shui philosopher, but he probably had a doctorate in ass-kicking too, given how expertly he take names with an AK in the finale and fights MookLieutenant Van in the climax.
* BananaRepublic: Carrinan is an Asian country ruled by a dictator, who resembles Vietnam in every way but name. The scriptwriters are probably inspired by the inclusion of the fictional country of Val Verde that keeps popping out from their Hollywood counterparts the time this film was made.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: The climax of the film, between the LaResistance and General Ruan's forces, with Wisely, Anna, Professor Chang and Ngyuen supporting the former side.
* BigFancyHouse: General Ruan's mansion, located right smack in the middle of his base guarded by scores and scores of his soldiers. Wisely fights him one-on-one in the climax, and is later reinforced by Anna, and of course plenty of the building's interior decoration gets wrecked thanks to copious amounts of KungShui.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: [[spoiler: The ultimate, eventual fate of General Ruan; for screwing with the local Feng Shui trying to make himself a permanent dictator of the BananaRepublic, he ends up getting struck by a bolt of lightning through his window thanks to Wisely turning his cardinal points against him killing him on the spot]]. ItMakesSenseInContext, alright?
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Wisely suffers this fate when General Ngyuen finally took him down in the climax]]. But he got better (somehow).
* BraidsOfAction: The preferred hairstyle of resident action babe Anna, played by Moon Lee.
* ClimbingClimax: In the climatic final battle, while Anna, Ngyuen and the rebels are making their way towards General Ruan's hideout, Wisely on the other hand is climbing his way upwards towards the caves in the center of a hill to sabotage one of the two key cardinal points. Naturally, he gets interrupted when General Ruan on a helicopter intercepts him.
* DestinationDefenestration: Wisely survives getting flung through a window by General Ruan in the final battle.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: In the climax, Wisely ''actually'' dies when General Ruan puts a bullet into his forehead... but due to Wisely destroying the cardinal points of the General's mansion, causing the Feng Shui to be reset, this somehow renders Ruan's attack useless and for Wisely to come back to life]].
* GeneralRipper: General Ruan, the BigBad, who is the dictator ruling Carrinan with an iron fist, and remains in power permanently if his Feng Shui cardinal point remains untouched.
* GirlsWithGuns: The movie has Moon Lee and Sibelle Hu in it, and sure enough, both of them get to use heavy machine guns and automatic firearms in the climax. Sibelle Hu's Ngyuen notably gets to use TWO.
* GunsAkimbo: Overlaps with SmallGirlBigGun (s) when Ngyuen mows down enemy soldiers using two M16 machine guns at the same time.
* HellishCopter: During the battle on the hill shrine sequence, General Ruan personally comandeers a helicopter to attack Wisely, who culminates in Wisely detonating the explosives in the shrine. The helicopter, despite being at least a mile away from the exploding shrine, somehow catches fire and blows up together.
* HollywoodHacking: Wisely's hacking attempt in the movie is apparently written by some rookie scriptwriter whose knowledge of hacking comes from watching ''Film/WarGames''.
* IntrepidReporter: Anna Wong. If it means travelling to a war-torn South-East Asian country to get the latest scoop, so be it.
* LaResistance: The Carrinan rebels who opposes General Ruan's army. They serve as the RedshirtArmy in the penultimate action sequence
* LeftStuckAfterAttack: In the final mansion battle, Wisely misses an attack on General Ruan, just as Ruan activates a closing trapdoor in an attempt to crush Wisely. Wisely managed to evade in time, but gets his jacket's left sleeve stuck in the closing door, where he momentarily ends up being beaten up by Ruan before he removes his jacket.
* OutrunTheFireball: Both Wisely and Anna does this. Being a 90s Hong Kong film, those are ''real'' explosions.
** In the cliff / shrine battle, Wisely detonates the explosives he set up around the shrine to sabotage General Ruan's cardinal point while simultaneously fighting Ruan. Both of them had to leap off the cliff as a ''massive'' explosion consumes the entire place.
** The final shootout had Anna climbing to the top of a guard tower and taking out soldiers operating heavy machine-guns so that the rebels can cross, but one of the soldiers she beats up drops a grenade. Cue Anna taking a dive off the exploding tower, landing on the straw roof of a hut.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler: Wisely]] in the conclusion of his battle with Ruan. It's notable that Ruan is using an [[{{BFG}} extreme large-bore Elephant Gun]] in that scene, but somehow all that results to is a trickle of blood down the forehead.
* ProductPlacement: The Carrinan rebellion is supported by Pepsi, Coca-cola and [=MacDonalds=]! The favourite foor of the local LaResistance!
* TheSquadette: Ngyuen spends almost her entire screentime clad in military gear, especially when taking names with dual machine-guns.
* StuffBlowingUp: Helicopters, tanks, ammunition piles, bunkers, guard towers... there's plenty of stuff to blow up in the final battle, thanks to the movie's larger-than-usual bidget being allocated for the final action scene.
* TagalongReporter: Anna Wong, being a reporter only seeking the news about the going-ons in Carrinan, ends up following Wisely all the way to the country and getting thrown into the coup. Subverted that being [[ActionGirl Moon Lee]], she has no problems fighting off waves and waves of mooks by herself once she's caught in the battle.
* TankGoodness: The final battle against General Ruan's forces is made complicated when Ruan unleashes a column of tanks, but luckily the rebels have [[LandMineGoesClick landmines]] and anticipates the location where the tanks will pass, allowing them to gain an advantage in ambushing the tank units, although they still suffer heavy casualties.
* WallOfWeapons: In General Ruan's quarters, although the weapons are mostly antiques, such as muskets and flintlock pistols that fires ball rounds. There's also staff, pikes, and a bronze {{BFS}} which Anna grabs to attack Ruan when assisting Wisely.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[OverlyNarrowSuperlative The best action movie about Feng Shui ever made]]. ]]
Bury Me High is a 1991 action movie directed by Tsui Siu-ming, and is one of the many spin-off action movies involving Hong Kong pulp novel character, Wisely Wei after ''Film/TheSeventhCurse'' made the character famous. Starring Chin Kar-lok as Wisely, alongside Creator/SibelleHu making a comeback with Creator/MoonLee added to the cast, the movie continues the adventure of Wisely where ''Seventh Curse'' left off previously.
Wisely is now in America, where he's hired by a rich traveler to investigate the sepulchral veneration of his home's Feng Shui center in the South-East Asian country of Carrinan, in order to secure the continuous wealth and fortune for his family's future generations. Accepting the assignment due to his interest in Feng Shui, Wisely travels to Carrinan with his partner, Professor Chang (Tsui Siu-ming, also director) and a reporter, Anna Wong (Moon). But upon arrival in Carrinan, Wisely and gang discovers the Feng Shui cardinal point of the country has been hijacked, by local dictator and warlord General Ngyuen, who is using the local Feng Shui to ensure he maintains an iron grip on the nation.
In case you're confused by all that Feng Shui mumbo-jumbo stuff, let's just say that's just the movie's attempt to use a complicated theme as backdrop for its plot, when in actuality the entire movie is pretty much like every action film about a BadassCrew of heroes assisting an oppressed nation overthrow a dictator's military regime, not unlike ''Film/DogsOfWar'' or ''Film/TheWildGeese'', but with more kung fu, feng shui, and supernatural elements thrown in. It's... actually more fun than it sounds. [[note]] I mean, the final battle has tanks! Friggin' tanks! And exploding helicopters! And exploding cliffs! And exploding towers and bunkers! And... okay, I'll stop. [[/note]]
Moon and Sibelle will collaborate once again in their next film, ''Film/DreamingTheReality''.
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!!Bury Me High, but Shallow enough to Trope...
* {{Acrofatic}}: Professor Chang may be played by the tubby Tsui Siu-Ming, but he can execute some impressive moves and kick ass with roughly the same expertise as Wisely, Anna or Ngyuen.
* ActionGirl: Moon Lee's Anna and Sibelle Hu's Ngyuen. Both of them aren't on the same side, until Ngyuen's eventual HeelFaceTurn.
* BadassBookworm: Professor Chang may be a Feng Shui philosopher, but he probably had a doctorate in ass-kicking too, given how expertly he take names with an AK in the finale and fights MookLieutenant Van in the climax.
* BananaRepublic: Carrinan is an Asian country ruled by a dictator, who resembles Vietnam in every way but name. The scriptwriters are probably inspired by the inclusion of the fictional country of Val Verde that keeps popping out from their Hollywood counterparts the time this film was made.
* BigBadassBattleSequence: The climax of the film, between the LaResistance and General Ruan's forces, with Wisely, Anna, Professor Chang and Ngyuen supporting the former side.
* BigFancyHouse: General Ruan's mansion, located right smack in the middle of his base guarded by scores and scores of his soldiers. Wisely fights him one-on-one in the climax, and is later reinforced by Anna, and of course plenty of the building's interior decoration gets wrecked thanks to copious amounts of KungShui.
* BoltOfDivineRetribution: [[spoiler: The ultimate, eventual fate of General Ruan; for screwing with the local Feng Shui trying to make himself a permanent dictator of the BananaRepublic, he ends up getting struck by a bolt of lightning through his window thanks to Wisely turning his cardinal points against him killing him on the spot]]. ItMakesSenseInContext, alright?
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Wisely suffers this fate when General Ngyuen finally took him down in the climax]]. But he got better (somehow).
* BraidsOfAction: The preferred hairstyle of resident action babe Anna, played by Moon Lee.
* ClimbingClimax: In the climatic final battle, while Anna, Ngyuen and the rebels are making their way towards General Ruan's hideout, Wisely on the other hand is climbing his way upwards towards the caves in the center of a hill to sabotage one of the two key cardinal points. Naturally, he gets interrupted when General Ruan on a helicopter intercepts him.
* DestinationDefenestration: Wisely survives getting flung through a window by General Ruan in the final battle.
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: In the climax, Wisely ''actually'' dies when General Ruan puts a bullet into his forehead... but due to Wisely destroying the cardinal points of the General's mansion, causing the Feng Shui to be reset, this somehow renders Ruan's attack useless and for Wisely to come back to life]].
* GeneralRipper: General Ruan, the BigBad, who is the dictator ruling Carrinan with an iron fist, and remains in power permanently if his Feng Shui cardinal point remains untouched.
* GirlsWithGuns: The movie has Moon Lee and Sibelle Hu in it, and sure enough, both of them get to use heavy machine guns and automatic firearms in the climax. Sibelle Hu's Ngyuen notably gets to use TWO.
* GunsAkimbo: Overlaps with SmallGirlBigGun (s) when Ngyuen mows down enemy soldiers using two M16 machine guns at the same time.
* HellishCopter: During the battle on the hill shrine sequence, General Ruan personally comandeers a helicopter to attack Wisely, who culminates in Wisely detonating the explosives in the shrine. The helicopter, despite being at least a mile away from the exploding shrine, somehow catches fire and blows up together.
* HollywoodHacking: Wisely's hacking attempt in the movie is apparently written by some rookie scriptwriter whose knowledge of hacking comes from watching ''Film/WarGames''.
* IntrepidReporter: Anna Wong. If it means travelling to a war-torn South-East Asian country to get the latest scoop, so be it.
* LaResistance: The Carrinan rebels who opposes General Ruan's army. They serve as the RedshirtArmy in the penultimate action sequence
* LeftStuckAfterAttack: In the final mansion battle, Wisely misses an attack on General Ruan, just as Ruan activates a closing trapdoor in an attempt to crush Wisely. Wisely managed to evade in time, but gets his jacket's left sleeve stuck in the closing door, where he momentarily ends up being beaten up by Ruan before he removes his jacket.
* OutrunTheFireball: Both Wisely and Anna does this. Being a 90s Hong Kong film, those are ''real'' explosions.
** In the cliff / shrine battle, Wisely detonates the explosives he set up around the shrine to sabotage General Ruan's cardinal point while simultaneously fighting Ruan. Both of them had to leap off the cliff as a ''massive'' explosion consumes the entire place.
** The final shootout had Anna climbing to the top of a guard tower and taking out soldiers operating heavy machine-guns so that the rebels can cross, but one of the soldiers she beats up drops a grenade. Cue Anna taking a dive off the exploding tower, landing on the straw roof of a hut.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: [[spoiler: Wisely]] in the conclusion of his battle with Ruan. It's notable that Ruan is using an [[{{BFG}} extreme large-bore Elephant Gun]] in that scene, but somehow all that results to is a trickle of blood down the forehead.
* ProductPlacement: The Carrinan rebellion is supported by Pepsi, Coca-cola and [=MacDonalds=]! The favourite foor of the local LaResistance!
* TheSquadette: Ngyuen spends almost her entire screentime clad in military gear, especially when taking names with dual machine-guns.
* StuffBlowingUp: Helicopters, tanks, ammunition piles, bunkers, guard towers... there's plenty of stuff to blow up in the final battle, thanks to the movie's larger-than-usual bidget being allocated for the final action scene.
* TagalongReporter: Anna Wong, being a reporter only seeking the news about the going-ons in Carrinan, ends up following Wisely all the way to the country and getting thrown into the coup. Subverted that being [[ActionGirl Moon Lee]], she has no problems fighting off waves and waves of mooks by herself once she's caught in the battle.
* TankGoodness: The final battle against General Ruan's forces is made complicated when Ruan unleashes a column of tanks, but luckily the rebels have [[LandMineGoesClick landmines]] and anticipates the location where the tanks will pass, allowing them to gain an advantage in ambushing the tank units, although they still suffer heavy casualties.
* WallOfWeapons: In General Ruan's quarters, although the weapons are mostly antiques, such as muskets and flintlock pistols that fires ball rounds. There's also staff, pikes, and a bronze {{BFS}} which Anna grabs to attack Ruan when assisting Wisely.
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