This movie completely blew me away! What a wonderful, truly inspired performance by Francis Ng, who takes the character of ugly Kwan from the first Y&D movie and turns it into perhaps the most memorable characterization of a triad ever presented in a HK movie.

Make no mistake, stylistically this movie has nothing in common at all with the various Y&D offshoots. No pretty boys with long hair here! Instead, the triad world is presented with a degree of cold cynicism that rips all the various movie cliches about righteousness etc to shreds. In tone, this was closer to Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone, except that this movie goes a few steps beyond that one.

The story starts with a quick ironic deconstruction of the various triad myths, showing them only to then reveal that what you are watching is a depiction of a comic that Francis is reading. You then get to see what it's really like, with Kwan in short order attempting to rape a girl, kill her father and then selling her to a mideast brothel. All this is presented as black comedy. Shortly thereafter, Kwan gets shot, and while lying on a hospital gurney fighting for his life, his voiceover starts introducing the viewer to his life story, which makes up the remainder of the movie. I don't want to give anything away here, other than to say not everything presented should be believed and that the movie may have been inspiration for Milkyway's Too many ways to be Number One.

I strongly recommend this movie. It's definitely one of the most interesting and entertaining HK movies I've seen lately.