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Review
by Kozo: |
When we last left our Hung Hing buddies, Chicken (Jordan Chan)
had just killed his lover and Nam (Dior Cheng) was mourning
over Smartie (Gigi Lai), who was left in a coma after Young
& Dangerous 2. As the third one opens, Chicken rejoins
Hung Hing, Smartie reawakens but is left amnesiac, and Nam
is given more responsibilities by benevolent head boss Simon
Yam.
However, muscling in on their turf
are the upstart Tung Sings led by the nasty Crow (Roy Cheung,
the official triad actor) and Ng Chi-Hung (who played the
nice Boss B in the first Young & Dangerous). The
two baddies cook up some scheme to rid Causeway Bay of the
Hung Hings via drugs, Holland, and some other pesky details.
In the beginning the film is rudderless,
foregoing plot for slice-of-life stuff, i.e. relationships
and the introduction of a new character: Karen Mok, as preacher
Spencer Lam’s daughter. Once the plot kicks in the picture
moves, sometimes defying logic but not without a few moments
that really grab you (some people won’t be around for Young
and Dangerous 4, if you know what I mean).
The leads are solid as usual, and
Karen Mok adds some much needed sexiness and spice to the
mix. Also helping matters during the slow sequences is
exposition that actually seems to tell us something about
the realities of triad life. Though the film may seem plotless
and slow-paced at first, it eventually rounds into the best
one yet. (Kozo 1996) |
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