Post by milo on Feb 29, 2008 19:58:00 GMT -5
This action-thriller was released in 2005,and brought back some balls to the Hong Kong action industry.This movie contains interesting mesh of hand to hand combat,drama and some thriller elements,making it quite the unique film.
The films story is about veteran detective Chan(played by Simon Yam)who has for years tried put Triad boss Wong Po(played by Sammo Hung) behind bars. At the start of the film,Chan has succeeded to do just that and is driving a witness with damning evidence to the courthouse. Of course things go wrong and Chan's dreams of seeing Wong Po getting butt fucked in prison will not happen.Fast forward 3 years and we meet Chan again,he's soon retiring from the force and leaving his job to the hot headed cop called,Ma kwan(played by,Donnie Yen)At this point the movie really starts and soon shit really hits the fan.we meet Wong Po again,see assassin called Jack(played by Wu Jing) kill people with lovely brutal fashion,some good old fashioned evidence forging and some heavy drama scenes.At the end of this movie,everyone get's what they deserve in a unforgiving manner.
The fighting in this movie is choreographed by Donnie Yen,and it's intense and violent. Highlight of the movie is the already legendary alley fight scene,where our hero delivers sweet justice.The end fight is also great and contains typical Hong Kong kickboxing and things you normally see in UFC.There's take downs,ground and pound, rear naked choke and even a flying armbar for fucks sake!! It's no surprise to me, that this movie won best action choreography award in Hong Kong movie awards back in 2006.The soundtrack is fucking great as well,and it really creates fantastic atmosphere to the movie
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Here's a trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgpvEU822s
Definitely one of the best movies in recent years.
I give it 5/5 and my special award:
