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The
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Year: |
1991 |
Tony Leung, Andy Lau and Felix Wong |
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Director: |
Eric
Tsang Chi-Wai |
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Writer: |
Nam
Yin, James Yuen
Sai-Sang |
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Action: |
Tony Leung
Siu-Hung |
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Cast: |
Andy
Lau Tak-Wah, Tony
Leung Chiu-Wai, Felix
Wong Yat-Wah, Miu
Kiu-Wai, Ken Tong
Chun-Yip, Leung
Ka-Yan, Irene
Wan Pik-Ha, Chen
Kuan-Tai, Lo Lieh,
Phillip Chan Yan-Kin,
Wong Kam-Kong,
Yammie Nam Kit-Ying,
Joan Tong Lai-Kau, Poon Wang-Ban, Nam
Yin, Ka Lei, Michael Dinga, Hui Fan, Shing
Fui-On |
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The
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Entertaining
action-thriller that feels too implausible to be more
than a passing time-waster. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
A surprisingly dark and gritty crime thriller that taxes
your sympathy as five of the best cops in Hong Kong
take some dirty drug money and proceed to watch everything
go to hell. TVB’s Five Tigers (Andy Lau, Tony Leung,
Felix Wong, Miu Kiu-Wai) play four of the tigers, with
Leung Ka-Yan as their captain. The fifth TVB tiger (Ken
Tong) doesn’t play one of the good guys - he instead
plays the viciously evil bad guy Tung.
During a routine drug bust, Leung
Ka-Yan lets Tung go because he was once his brother-in-law.
Tung lets the cops have $10 million HK dollars, and
in probably the film’s biggest suspension of disbelief,
the five cops take the money. All except Felix Wong,
that is, who manages to be righteous even while his
cop brothers take the money with varying degrees of
guilt. Sadly, the whole thing goes insane as Tung returns
to blackmail the cops, and each step they take to stop
Tung is met with an increasingly depressing darkness.
Some energetic action and dark
moments make this flick work, but the disbelief at watching
everything go to hell is a difficult problem. How could
these five cops be so stupid? With that in mind, it’s
hard to root for some of our heroes. Andy Lau turns
in one of his more unrepentant performances, though
his final act is worth sticking around for. Everything
aside, there are some entertaining moments in this otherwise
routine cop thriller. (Kozo
1999) |
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Availability: |
DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Mega Star Video Distribution
16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Cantonese/Mandarin Language Track
Dolby Digital 2.0
Removable English and Chinese Subtitles |
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image
courtesy of Universe Laser & Video Co., Ltd.
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