Reviewed by: j.crawford Date: 05/13/2005 Summary: Production values are high. [1999 was a good year.] At the Music Palace 9/25/99 with The King of Debt Collecting Agents. Cop Anthony Wong [Black Hair] and gangster Michael To [White Hair] grew up as brothers, linked by the suicides of one child's father and the other's mother. Black Hair is a cunning officer who takes 'black' money[bribes]. He has a serious gambling problem. White Hair is a triad killer, also cunning and on the rise to success as a gangster. The 2 maintain a friendship even though they are on opposite sides of the law. The bond between the two is strained, and ultimately broken, when Black Hair uses his position in an effort to wipe out his huge gambling debts. Black Hair has a partner who is an honest cop. This young guy is very ambitious as well and uses Black Hair to advance his career. He is killed on the job and as a result, Black Hair begins to regret his evil ways. Meanwhile, White Hair is working for the triad boss, Nelson Cheung, to whom Black Hair owes his debt. Nelson wants White Hair to 'take care' of Black Hair. Ambitious White Hair kills Nelson and his life long buddy to finally work for big boss Simon Lui. After Chau Sun's[Black Hair's] death, Dai Yu[White Hair] takes in his widow Lam Mei Jing, who finally revenges her husband with the help of ultimate super traitor Mr. Lui and White Hair's junior. Hence, the cycle continues..... The script is very creative but suffers from too many characters, male and female, who are ambitious, cunning, and traitorous. The ones who seem the most heroic turn out to be filthy scoundrels. Credit should be given to the screenwriter for trying to bring fresh material to the heroic bloodshed genre. Production values are high and the action scenes are well done. Triad traditions like taking over property including wives and concubines, territory, and indebtedness are included in the story that starts in 1979 and finishes in Pre-Handover 1995. Heavy corruption among the HK Royal Police is implied when Black Hair's every attempt to bust Nelson's loansharking and gambling rings are thwarted by his senior officers. Anthony Wong is as good as ever, looking more fit and handsome than he did in some other recent films. His transition from crooked cop to misguided hero is a joy to watch. Michael To does his best Chow Yun Fat impersonation and handles his scenes quite well. copyright 1999 J. Crawford Reviewer Score: 8

Reviewed by: Inner Strength Date: 05/09/2002 Summary: Poor ADVANTAGES: Anthony Wong. DISADVANTAGES: Everything else! Rating: 1/5

Reviewed by: Sydneyguy Date: 06/09/2000 Summary: Average at best Well a ok film is what i can say. Basic story, ok acting (Anthony Wong is good as usual), not much action but at times violent. I feel like this is a tv movie or something!! Feels like it's been done before so nothing new!! Nothing much to say about this........... 4 out of 10

Reviewed by: ryan Date: 11/21/1999 Summary: Ungrateful Tink (1999) Anthony WONG and Simon LOUI Yue-yeung is very active in the industry this year. Simon LOUI has been in almost every movie made in 1999 and usually more than one movie with Anthony WONG are showing in cinemas at the same time. In September, while we have Pro Film Production 'The Kingdom of Mob', we have another triad movie 'Ungrateful Tink' opened on the same date. This movie also casts TO Tai-yue, who has been popular since the success of the recent China Star TV Dramas showing at ATV Home Channel. 'Ungrateful Tink' is a movie about two man -- Black Hair (Anthony WONG Chau-sang) and White Hair (TO Tai-yue). They have been friends since primary schools. After they grow up, they are in the directions opposite to their nick name. Black Hair joins the Police Force while White Hair joined the triad party. Both of them are climbing up to the higher positions in their ladder by indecent way. Black Hair forces his wife Jing (LAM Mei-hing) to kill a drug addicted guy for making a success in getting drugs. White Hair induces the wife (SZE Yim-chi) of his big brother. Then he kills his big brother and gets the wife as his girl. In a anti-pornography action, Black Hair meets White Hair. Despite they are friends, White Hair wants to kill Black Hair so that he can have the negotiation power with the triad head (Simon LOUI Yue-yeung) to be the vice-head of the triad party...... The key issue illustrated in 'Ungrateful Tink' is the indecent behaviours in the triad society. Triad Society is a society considers tighteous and promises as the important elements maintaing the society. White Hair in the movie breaks the rules for climbing up the social ladder. He is a total baddy in the movie. TO Tai-yue, who has been in lots of TV Drama series before he switched into film industry, is able to act the characters of White Hair. Despite the lack of resources in production, the sub-plot that TO Tai-yue kills his 'Big Brother' is well done. Anthony WONG's role is very similar to his characters in 'Beast Cops'. Once again, he acted as a corrupted cop. His performance reflects his experience only. The plot aims at describing the indecent behaviours. However, with the creation of two characters Black Hair and White Hair, they should have a more balanced plot on both sides. Now most of the desciptions were on White Hair. Black Hair looks like a supporting cast rather than a leading cast. For the approach of presentation, 'Ungrateful Tink' has done a fair job but not impressive. Audience who has seen 'Young and Dangerous' series will find that they are familiars with most of the skills happened in 'Ungrateful Tink'. As audience has been exposed to tons of triad movies before, the director and the script writer are encouraged to put something specific in their movie to make it more remarkable. For example, they can put something new in the dislogues to make it more interesting. In short, 'Ungrateful Tink' is a movie writing how a guy behaves in a indecent way in a machanise which considers righteous and promise as the most important things. The performance of TO Tai-yue is good hwile Anthony WONG repeats himself.