This Tsui Hark-produced police actioner means business! Gritty, cynical and excessively violent, the movie has no time for any tension-relieving buddy-cop humour or shrieking damsels in distress - unstead, we are presented with a relentless barrage of hard-hitting action that includes everything from decapitations, limbs being torn off or severed by power drills, fiery deaths, stabbings and fatal shootouts.
Waise Lee plays a police inspector intent on taking revenge for the death of his former partner, an undercover cop killed in brutal fashion during a mission in Malaysia. He is joined by a team that includes the agile Phillip Kwok, and together they begin to unravel a blackmail case involving drugsmuggling, while battling a vast array of bad guys in every conceivable fashion.
Although billed as one of the stars on the DVD cover, Joey Wong has only a very small role. She appears twice as a nurse during hospital scenes, and doesn't really get involved in the storyline at all until the final confrontation between the cops and the head villain.
Despite the limitations of a small budget, the movie is well-paced and efficiently shot, and while there's not much to the story itself, the gripping action scenes offer enough thrills to give this film a fully deserved two thumbs up.
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