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1992 Certificate 18
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Jeff and Judge join together in a robbery for weapons. When it all goes wrong Judge betrays Jeff so Judge goes out for the ultimate revenge... Read more

Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Simon Yam, Bonnie Fu, Ann Bridgewater
Director Ringo Lam
Genres Action/Adventure

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Jeff and Judge join together in a robbery for weapons. When it all goes wrong Judge betrays Jeff so Judge goes out for the ultimate revenge...

Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Simon Yam, Bonnie Fu, Ann Bridgewater
Director Ringo Lam
Studio E1 ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 37 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Action/Adventure
Released DVD: 30 Aug 2004
Production year: 1992
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Chow Yun-Fat is Jeff, the Bangkok bouncer who takes violent revenge after an arms raid leads to a double-cross in this frantic “heroic bloodshed” thriller. Simon Yam, as gay arms dealer Judge dominates proceedings and Anthony Wong plays Jeff's duplicitous friend Sam. This is a film of flying metal, whether in the form of speeding cars, bikes or bullets. Ringo Lam's direction is electrifying, managing to surpass the action-packed antique shop and armoured car robberies with a sensational nightclub shoot-out, in which the camera takes on the perspective of the bullets.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Jeff (Chow Yun-Fat), a tough guy with a sense of honour, saves his debt-ridden friend Sam from loan sharks. Hooking up... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 10 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Stunning

    Ringo Lam is probably best known in the West for City on Fire which Tarantino 'borrowed' the final act for Reservior Dogs but this amazing action from 1992 is just stunning.

    Chow Yun Fat plays Gho Fei who finds himself caught up in crime to pay off a local loan shark who is threatening to kill his friend Sam(Anthony Wong) - this embroils him with local gay gangster Judge(an outragiously camp turn from Simon Yam) and his pychotic gang.

    They agree to steal a truck load of weapons but Judge has agreed to kill Gho for the loan shark who Gho had humilated - he also turns Sam and gets him to betray Gho.....a third friend is killed and an entire innocent family are wiped out in the crossfire - Gho is apparantly killed and Sam takes up with Mona(Ann Bridewater) who was Gho's girl.....and the scene is set for blood soaked retribution.

    Gho retires to a Buddist monestry to re-cover then plans his revenge - at first Sam thinks he will kill him but Gho uses him to find out where the arms are then steals them back from Judge thus setting up the apocalyptic climax.

    Lam directs like a man possesed moving from one overblown set piece to another - mass shoot-outs,martial arts fights and huge explosions are the order of the day with a an increasing body count - as always Chow Yun-Fat is great(not quite as cool as he was in The Killer) but not far off - mounted atop his moterbike reaking havoc and Wong is equally good as the guilt ridden Sam with Yam camping it up mixing this with a cold sadism.

    There is a fantastic shoot out in a night club that uses bullet time(a full 5 years before The Matrix) and the action is brilliantly done and the ending is just incredible - set in driving rain on a dockside surrounded by exploding,burning cars the final face off is as good as anything from Woo or even Leone......its just breathtaking...

    Just a shame Lam has been reduced to making Jean-Claude Van Damme movies.....

      • Stevieb47 from Surbiton
      • Posted 05 Mar 2005 09:17

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Said the nymphomaniac to the gay gangster...

    Although essentially downbeat, this film still manages to showcase the charisma that's made Chow Yun-Fat such a big star in Hong Kong cinema. Not one of his better films, it's still worth watching if only for the excellent pyrotechic display at the end and for Simon Yam's wonderfully overblown performance as a psychotic gay gangster! And, as usual, Bey Logan's on hand to provide an enjoyable, and in-depth, audio commentary as he's done on so many other Hong Kong Legends releases.

      • A customer from Sheffield, England
      • Posted 23 Feb 2005 16:12

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